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Skilled, foreign workers are giving up on their American dreams -- and turning to Canada
https://www.businessinsider.com/h-1b-visa-rejects-moving-to-canada-2019-3?utm_content=bufferd88ec&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-travel&fbclid=IwAR26cAD4KbCS3RHxN8DCrEhL8br-HOKSnXECfY9clSxekPjiRmQkhEiiGts
Alex still remembers the gut punch he felt when he was told he might have to leave the country he grew up in.
After nearly a decade in America — first attending a Massachusetts boarding school, then a Connecticut college — Alex walked into an immigration lawyer's office near the end of his senior year, thinking it might finally be time to inquire about switching from his temporary student visa onto some sort of permanent status.
He thought it would be easy.
He was floored when the lawyer explained to him that it didn't matter how long he'd lived in the US, how quickly he'd adapted to American life, or even how excellent his grades were in school.
If he couldn't convince a company to sponsor him for an H-1B visa— a painstaking process that randomly selects winners from a lottery, takes months, and often costs thousands of dollars — there was likely no other alternative for him. At one point she joked that if Alex had a serious girlfriend, he should consider marriage instead.
Tens of thousands of skilled, educated foreign workers are rushing to file their H-1B visa applications when processing opens on April 1.
But many of them will be rejected — either by the highly selective lottery, or by delays that lawyers and experts attribute to the Trump administration's crackdown on legal immigration to the US.
Alex, a temporary foreign worker who spent much of his life in the US, told INSIDER he could face rejection for an H-1B visa for the third time.
But this time, he says he'll be moving to Canada if that happens, and he's already started the immigration process up north and is astonished by how different it is to the US system.
Alex still remembers the gut punch he felt when he was told he might have to leave the country he grew up in.
After nearly a decade in America — first attending a Massachusetts boarding school, then a Connecticut college — Alex walked into an immigration lawyer's office near the end of his senior year, thinking it might finally be time to inquire about switching from his temporary student visa onto some sort of permanent status.
He thought it would be easy.
He was floored when the lawyer explained to him that it didn't matter how long he'd lived in the US, how quickly he'd adapted to American life, or even how excellent his grades were in school.
If he couldn't convince a company to sponsor him for an H-1B visa— a painstaking process that randomly selects winners from a lottery, takes months, and often costs thousands of dollars — there was likely no other alternative for him. At one point she joked that if Alex had a serious girlfriend, he should consider marriage instead.
If they can't get enough H-1Bs, they have to hire Americans. This is true for several fields, but the biggest impact from the Trump reforms is in IT services contracting. Tremendous opportunity for Americans to apply for these jobs.
Get it DUers!
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As long as I remember, DUers have wanted less H-1Bs in America so they can take these jobs back. Trump has delivered upon this and reduced renewals and new approvals for this visa. There are lots of jobs posted. I'm contacted by headhunters daily.
This is a tremendous opportunity for DUers to apply for these jobs they've always claimed they wanted.
Get it DUers!
until American DUers apply for the contracting jobs that H-1Bs have been doing. Clients often call us the dark side, pun intended.
Come to the dark side!
PLENTY of Americans who wanted those jobs. It was never a matter of not applying for the jobs, but of corporate America worshiping the almighty buck.
It may be the only thing Trump has done right.
