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Economy
Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown leaves Indian techies in limbo
2018-12-01
Sorry guys, wonderful as y’all no doubt are, you are not entitled to the jobs you have been accustomed to getting.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] With Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 swearing up and down that rules for employment-based visas would be tightened by January next to protect the interests of local Americans, Indians dreaming to make a fast buck in the Land of Liberty are in limbo.

The United States (US) President has been walking the talk in tune with his election campaign promise of visa reforms but the crackdown has knocked the daylights out of some 550,000 starry-eyed Indians ‐ 200,000 techies fighting for 65,000 H-1B work visas every year, 300,000 H-1B visa holders employed in the US, their 70,000-odd spouses working on H-4 visas and 165,000 bright-spark students boasting master’s degrees from American universities.
Posted by:Fred

#9  IME Lots of indian "techies" are fakes and indians hate to say they cant do something preferring to lie....

A non technical PM leading a project full of indian techies could easily run into problems.

Mate worked at a bank that outsourced dev work to india, it came back so badly done they had to rehire folks on more pay to sort it out and the backlog.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-12-01 18:17  

#8  Remember when Disney laid off American workers for 'imports' and tied their severance package to train them and not talk about it?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-12-01 16:00  

#7  If Google, Facebook, Cisco, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM want to hire Indian workers they can move all their fucking companies to India including headquarters, presidents and CEOs like Bill Gates, Sergie Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, etc. Or maybe they can move to China if that's where they manufacture their hardware. Let them deal with Indian and Chinese bureaucrats and infrastructure. Buh bye, weasels.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-12-01 12:28  

#6  It would be nice to have techs that speak a clear concise ENGLISH, EVEN if they are from new yaark. You should try it being partially deaf? Sorry charlie no tuna ?
Posted by: ranture   2018-12-01 10:21  

#5  Have been far enough up the food chain to be shielded from this for a while, but I never, ever, had any satisfaction talking to Gupta or Sati on the phone. Script readers.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-12-01 08:40  

#4  Worked with many of these folks in my years as a consultant. A few of them were first rate, a few were the dregs, most of them were in the middle.

The one thing they all were polite and deferential... except the East Europeans some of them were nasty and lazy.

One company brought in a dozen Indians and let a dozen US employees go. All of the petty shit you've heard about is true somewhere but not everywhere.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-12-01 07:42  

#3  I had one of my clients get trapped back in India because of this. He was back there vising relatives and ran into 'visa problems' when he tried to come back stateside. A few months later he became schizophrenic and lost his job. Guess I'm not doing his U.S. tax returns for a while...
Posted by: Raj   2018-12-01 06:52  

#2  "...have already started taking more and more local Americans on board... "

I thought there were no Americans capable of doing these jobs.

Having seen outright fraud from Indian staffing companies -- up to sending a different person than the one interviewed -- and increasingly lazy management letting them do it, I welcome these new limits.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-12-01 06:51  

#1  I think we have more enough of third worĺd, anti-American, H1B1 geeks working at FatawaBook and Twit!
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2018-12-01 01:46  

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