<story><title>Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high</title><url>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-visa-denials-at-all-time-high/articleshow/70613732.cms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&amp;gt; we don’t employ immigrants to save money.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t have to pay immigrants less in order to be saving money by employing immigrants. The whole point is that by expanding the labor pool, you&amp;#x27;re reducing salaries and negotiating power for everyone.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not what the H1-B system was designed for. It was designed to facilitate hiring folks with specialized skills you can&amp;#x27;t get locally. &lt;i&gt;E.g.&lt;/i&gt; you want to hire an Indian person who did his PhD on something relevant to a project you&amp;#x27;re working on.</text></item><item><author>doh</author><text>We are still a small company of 40+ people and have quite unprecedented issues with H-1Bs, from transfer though extension. Literally every single H-1B extension or transfer got slapped by RFE. The amount of documents we had to produce to prove that an employee, who works for us for 3 years, is still valuable, is just mind-blowing.&lt;p&gt;BTW we got RFE equally for people that are from Europe and India.&lt;p&gt;PS: because it was brought up by someone in this thread, we don’t employ immigrants to save money. Check any of my “who is hiring” posts [0] and you can see, that we pay equally across the US to all employees based on their skill level. We bring immigrants because we’re having hard times finding skilled workers locally. The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20587535&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20587535&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>&amp;gt; you&amp;#x27;re reducing salaries and negotiating power for everyone.&lt;p&gt;Rather, you&amp;#x27;re leveling it by expanding the labor pool to include the rest of the world, aka via globalization. Not inherently bad imo, but I could understand why someone patriotic would find this problematic.</text></comment>
<story><title>Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high</title><url>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-visa-denials-at-all-time-high/articleshow/70613732.cms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&amp;gt; we don’t employ immigrants to save money.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t have to pay immigrants less in order to be saving money by employing immigrants. The whole point is that by expanding the labor pool, you&amp;#x27;re reducing salaries and negotiating power for everyone.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not what the H1-B system was designed for. It was designed to facilitate hiring folks with specialized skills you can&amp;#x27;t get locally. &lt;i&gt;E.g.&lt;/i&gt; you want to hire an Indian person who did his PhD on something relevant to a project you&amp;#x27;re working on.</text></item><item><author>doh</author><text>We are still a small company of 40+ people and have quite unprecedented issues with H-1Bs, from transfer though extension. Literally every single H-1B extension or transfer got slapped by RFE. The amount of documents we had to produce to prove that an employee, who works for us for 3 years, is still valuable, is just mind-blowing.&lt;p&gt;BTW we got RFE equally for people that are from Europe and India.&lt;p&gt;PS: because it was brought up by someone in this thread, we don’t employ immigrants to save money. Check any of my “who is hiring” posts [0] and you can see, that we pay equally across the US to all employees based on their skill level. We bring immigrants because we’re having hard times finding skilled workers locally. The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20587535&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20587535&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>This trope gets brought up a lot but the definition of specialized skills is broader than PHD level expertise. That is your interpretation of it and not that of the law or of the Federal Government.</text></comment>