Stagnation in US career for Indian Diaspora!
There are many phases immigration process is traversing through.Time and again manifesting the idiocracy at its best with new policies authored under pretentious intentions of improving it and eradicating illegal immigration. And time and again it has proved to be more expensive, resource-consuming, and totally diverted from serving the actual purpose. Not to mention the enormous unfairness it causes to the non-immigrant community who forebear everything played out at it with deliberate silence and bitterness.
Cyber coolies of Indian diaspora living in the united states seem to have learnt the tactics of awaiting the American Dream to come true in the form of a Green Card by 'laying low' their intellectual and technical expertise(and someone forbid,eventually have the expertise vamoose!!).
Some do job-hopping among indian consulting companies (Slave Traders of their own country men, generally owned by some dickhead who was lucky to get a Green Card in the past). Not to mention their degrading negotiations of hourly rates for these professionals.They have played this prostitution business of brains to such a deteriorated level that any typical American IS manager can easily climb up the career ladder with a bravo pat on his back from the CEO of the company for getting "Raj,an indian guy, an enterprise systems' architect at a knock-out price from one of those indian consulting companies!!!"
When per capita income among indians in america is highest compared to any other ethnic group in the country (who knows! some research claims!!), and they seem to pose a threat to the 'white' collared positions of the corporate world, it is indeed in the best interests of the government to show stepmother treatment to the non-immigrant community turning into immigrant community.
I do not have any problem if a country is protecting jobs for its own citizens. Immigration is a privilege and not a right. I totally concur and await my american dream to come true in its own time. But I have problem with the immigration policies imposing unfair rules and regulations over the community that is legally and painstakingly seeking US immigration. Illegal immigration problem lies in the manual labor class of people jumping over the fence or crawling thru under it. I am yet to see some srinivas or raj with H1B who dared to break any type of immigration law consciously.It seldom happens. Corporate America needs manual labor. Strikingly and ironically that is where illegal immigration lies.Stopping a dependent (H4 visa) from getting a driver's license is not going to solve terrorist problems. Terrorists dont have families. Let alone asking his wife to take driving test and get the license so that he can blow up buildings collectively as a family. Talk about family values! Neither do terrorists give rat's ass about informing INS the 'address change' everytime they relocate.
Introducing PERM with 300,000 old labor certification applications already piled up in the lap is a catostrophe. Address the issue at hand first, then seek improvements later. Simple logic went unfathomed by DOL. Introduce more centres at state level. Break down the work if you have more work to handle. Rather they amalgamated all into one messy BRC queue. RIR vs NON-RIR doesnt mean anything anymore. They all crawl at the same pace in FIFO.
In the light of EB2/EB3 discussions, RIR vs NON-RIR categories, PERM and BRC queue chaos, Priority dates and H1 visa extensions beyond 7th year , 8th year(upto infinity.,) etc.,. My take on this would be, TO WAIT and see where it leads. Expecting the worse but hoping for the best.
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...you make the judgement. .I just presented the facts.