The Donga Ilbo is reporting that Korean holders of H-1B visas working in the US are losing their jobs because of recession cutbacks and federal government regulations. According to the Donga Ilbo, General Electric, American Express, and other major corporations are limiting job internships to US citizens or permanent residents. Foreign nationals working or seeking work with TARP welfare mommas financial institutions are hindered by federal government regulations requiring recipients of TARP money to prove that no qualified US citizen is available before hiring a foreign national on an H-1B visa.
The H-1B visa program itself is a whole other issue. No surprise that many US employers actually prefer to hire indentured servants foreign nationals through the H-1B visa program since these employees cannot easily quit to take up better employment elsewhere and are not entitled to unemployment benefits in most states.
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these employees cannot easily quit to take up better employment elsewhere
Isn’t that the situation with E-2 visa people here?
“Isn’t that the situation with E-2 visa people here?”
Yep. H1-Bs are great for US businesses: higher-levels of qualifications for lower-pay than US citizens.
That’s the situation with most employment visas. E-7, D-8, whatever. If it’s an employment visa, it’s linked to a specific employment contract and job. One thing that Immigration hates is job-hoppers.
It’s also the situation with other countries. My visa in Singapore was tied to a single employer. Interestingly, I’m in the process of applying for a visa to bring our (Filipina) nanny to Canada with us, under the “live-in caregiver program”, a 2-yr visa which states explicitly that she is allowed to quit at any time for any reason and go to work in the same capacity for any other Canadian family that applies for a visa on her behalf.
OTOH, Singapore hands out permanent residency like candies, and once you have that you’re free to go. HK makes it a little harder, but after 7 years you’re on par with citizens for most things.
Yeah, I guess so. I even knew some Burmese and a Nepali who had gotten PR status. I was there as a 26-year old single young man, though, and that dull little island was nowhere I wanted to stay when my contract was up.
You might want to give it another go. Not so dull these days… And after 12 years in SK, I’ll take S’pore any time…
#7, Not only that, you won’t even raise eyebrows when you’re dating teenage girls. Just don’t smuggle in gum or thems da beats.
Japan seems not to have a problem with it. Visas are not linked to employers there, and in some cases you can sponsor yourself.
“2-yr visa which states explicitly that she is allowed to quit at any time for any reason and go to work in the same capacity for any other Canadian family that applies for a visa on her behalf.”
Am I missing something Linkd you seem to have described exactly the same thing – a visa linked to a specific job since she has to get another family to apply for a Visa. So basically same as work visas here and the H1B. You can quit but you can only get another job if you can get a visa under a new sponsor.
H1-B visas have become a real sticking point for foreign students this year. They’re getting out of grad programs and not able to find companies who will sponsor them. That is very, very frustrating.
Many Indian students use a system to sponsor each other. I’d be surprised if Korean students didn’t know of or use these loopholes.
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