Tech companies accused of gaming the H-1B lottery system https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/tech-companies-accused-gaming-h-210900739.html Irina Ivanova Fri, April 28, 2023 at 5:09 PM EDT "A group of U.S. tech companies have been accused of trying to game the immigration system by colluding to file multiple applications for individuals in the H-1B visa program that allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it saw a large increase in the number of duplicate applications submitted on behalf of the same applicants, raising the possibility that companies colluded to submit multiple entries for the same workers, thus raising their chances of getting chosen in the lottery. Duplicate applications were a big reason for the surge in H-1B visa petitions this year, which saw a record 780,000 applications to a lottery that awards 85,000 visas annually to skilled immigrants. According to USCIS, more than half the applications, nearly 409,000, were for potential foreign workers whose names were submitted multiple times. The increase in applications this year from people whose names were submitted only once was much smaller — 350,000, up from 309,000 last year." I guess now with all the layoffs this is exposed?
If we did the smart thing and paperclipped a greencard to every STEM diploma, we would need the stupid, inferior H1-B system.
If y'all were capable of having an intelligent conversation on immigration, I'm sure many solutions could be found. All better than broken H1B. This is why if a STEM-minded young immigrant asked my advice, I'd recommend to consider Canada. Even though I'm sick of cold and think Canada is a pretentious discount store version of US. Canucks don't paperclip a PR card to a STEM diploma, but with Canadian Experience Class at least get half way there. And they get immigration to drive their economic growth out of it.
