<story><title>US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers</title><url>http://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/us-congressional-committee-h1b-visa-holders-minimum-salary-for-h1b-visa-holder/story/264157.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>&amp;gt; move to harm Indian IT professionals&lt;p&gt;Title of the story linked-to is quite sensational.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a fan of the current administration at all, but as a former (Indian) H1-B visa holder myself, I welcome this move. It&amp;#x27;s clearly aimed at the top 10 H1-B visa abusers, almost all Indian Companies - think Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technologies, Wipro, Tech Manhindra etc - who grossly underpay the Indian software engineers and abuse H1-B visa program.&lt;p&gt;Now these crooks won&amp;#x27;t be able to file Labor Certificate applications with very low prevailing wages, and I think this will help real startups and software companies everywhere in the US, who can&amp;#x27;t find top engineers in US for new technologies, hire people from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world who are qualified, and not just from India.&lt;p&gt;Code-monkey Indians and the companies that try to bring them in on low wages will automatically get filtered out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Code-monkey Indians&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I realize (because you say it below) that you&amp;#x27;re Indian so it feels ok to say this. That might be true in person, but not here. You&amp;#x27;re broadcasting to a far larger audience with far less information about your intent. In this context, subtleties with slurs (such as &amp;#x27;it&amp;#x27;s a self-slur too, so that&amp;#x27;s ok&amp;#x27;) aren&amp;#x27;t really possible. If you casually drop the slur in anyway, you&amp;#x27;re damaging the container that protects what little kindness we have here, so we&amp;#x27;d appreciate it if you&amp;#x27;d not do this sort of thing.</text></comment>
<story><title>US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers</title><url>http://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/us-congressional-committee-h1b-visa-holders-minimum-salary-for-h1b-visa-holder/story/264157.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>&amp;gt; move to harm Indian IT professionals&lt;p&gt;Title of the story linked-to is quite sensational.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a fan of the current administration at all, but as a former (Indian) H1-B visa holder myself, I welcome this move. It&amp;#x27;s clearly aimed at the top 10 H1-B visa abusers, almost all Indian Companies - think Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technologies, Wipro, Tech Manhindra etc - who grossly underpay the Indian software engineers and abuse H1-B visa program.&lt;p&gt;Now these crooks won&amp;#x27;t be able to file Labor Certificate applications with very low prevailing wages, and I think this will help real startups and software companies everywhere in the US, who can&amp;#x27;t find top engineers in US for new technologies, hire people from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world who are qualified, and not just from India.&lt;p&gt;Code-monkey Indians and the companies that try to bring them in on low wages will automatically get filtered out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeonfire</author><text>Also should mention these companies are openly tolerated by the government for their extreme racist hiring policy, violating every conceivable US law, hiring upwards of 98% Indian race only in the United States.  But it&amp;#x27;s alright because it&amp;#x27;s just &amp;quot;engineers&amp;quot; not important people, right?</text></comment>