After the astonishing changes in the White House in the country's highly qualified visa program, employers switched from shock to acceptance.
Some strategies how to work with the new rules. Others make plans a legal dispute. And many wish that the Trump administration noticed the heap of ideas to remedy the central, the generally recognized failure of the program.
Since the early 2000s, the demand for specialized workers has exceeded an upper limit that stayed where it stood when the H-1b program started in 1990. The government randomly distributes the visa and outsourcing companies have learned to flood the system with applications for relatively low-paid positions.
The Trump administration said that it wanted to stop this practice and reserve the coveted visas for the most valuable workers so that they did not suppress American software programmers, researchers and engineers. The solutions that the administration has selected-a fee of $ 100,000 for new Visa and a complex weighting system in order to prefer higher-paid jobs-is unlikely to be done.
Instead, gaps seem to make it possible to adapt outsourcing companies to adapt to experts from the entire political spectrum, while start-ups, universities and research organizations are lost.
“Something that deals with the right problem and sounds good on paper can still lead on the same problematic road,” said John Lettieri, President of the Economic Innovation Group, a Think Tank who examined the H-1B program.
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