Obviosuly you do otherwise you wouldn't be posting this.
And your reply here is on-topic?
This sentence doesn't make sense. However, if I insulted him, it's only because he said one thing and then went back on his word to say another thing. I do not like that.
No! Wrong wrong wrong. Me, and I would hope many others on this forum came to US because, at the time, it needed lots of IT workers and we wanted to earn US salaries. If you came to this country to be cheap labor, well that's your problem. I came here to make more. And luckily, I am now.
Why are you assuming I'm a guy?
But to answer your question, yes, I came on H1 in 1999. Fast forward 7 years later and US doesn't need as many IT workers anymore. If you don't want to accept that, it's fine with me. But it's the fact. I've seen my friends, american citizens and green card holders, lose jobs to H1 and outsourcing, and none of them were as good as my friends were. All because big corporations (especially Microsoft) want to save a buck or two and get cheap labor. Well, usually you get what you pay for. We've had horrible experience with outsourcing despite what the managers will say. And I've personally interviewed about 60 or so people in the past year or so, for few positions we had opened and couldn't find anyone decent with basic knowledge of stuff we were asking for.
People that knew wanted more money (and none of them were H1 holders).
So we were forced to hire the best of the worst and now life is not nearly as pleasant as it could have been.
Unless outsourcing stops and development comes back, there's no need for more H1s, at least not in the IT field.
How would doubling the numbers help me? There would be twice as many people applying for green card. There would be twice as many people applying for the same job?
Would the government add twice as much money to combat with the problem? I've been here for way too long to answer yes.
Call me selfish as much as you want, I want them to stop adding more H1s, hurting all of our lives and transfer those resources tied up with processing new H1s to eliminating backlogs off all sorts.
It almost seems to me that you are associated with one of the consulting/recruitment companies.
Because I know how they work, I'm been dealing with them every day. Hire cheap people and then place them on high-paying positions ($70/80/90+ per hour) and take $40+ per hour off their rate. Most big companies nowadays have preffered vendor lists so candidates cannot apply directly but have to go through one of these consulting agencies. Racket.
That's why they're all interested in more H1 visas. Get rid of people that want more, and bring in people that are willing to work for less.
