India's government is upset about H-1B delays because their citizens are "stranded back home"?
This is getting worse everyday.. millions of locals are getting effected.
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@10j somebody said the quiet part out loud there
@1fj easier target
Just wait another year before Claude comes for Indian IT...
What is interesting is the people who benefitted from the H1B scams to enter the US later call out the fraud. You know when their prospects or their American born children’s prospects are diminished by the continual influx of H1Bs displacing them in the workforce.
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Indian-American US diplomat Mahvash Siddiqui has alleged widespread, systematic fraud in the H-1B visa programme, claiming that most of the working visas issued to Indians were obtained fraudulently. H-1B visa is used by American companies to hire foreign talent. Indians, especially, are the biggest beneficiaries of the H-1B temporary work visa programme.
Siddiqui, who served at the Chennai consulate between 2005 and 2007, made the claims while appearing on a podcast. She shared her firsthand experiences from her time as a consular officer in Chennai (Madras), one of the world's largest H-1B visa-processing posts, where US officials adjudicated thousands of non-immigrant visas, including 220,000 H-1Bs and 140,000 H-4 visas for their family members in 2024 alone.
She said she was speaking in her personal capacity, not as a diplomat. She challenged the notion that the US faces a shortage of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) talent and requires recruitment from India.
Siddiqui alleged that 80–90% of visas issued to Indians, most of which are H-1B visas, are fraudulent, either based on fake degrees, forged documents, or applicants who are not genuinely highly skilled enough to qualify.”
@zf why do people from shithole countries come here and try to turn the west into a shithole? Sounds like the definition of parasite.
@a7 exactly. Sending the money home. Why do you think the india shithole government is crying? The lack of American dollars flooding their system.
And yes, the whole country is a shithole. Get on gurgle maps and look around. It's a fu--ing shithole.
Scam culture they contribute to this side of the world is encouraged and will continue to be it looks like.
@rr Just like the files, notgonnahappen
Eliminate h1b visas deport them all
Those Indians love to abuse every little opportunity that is meant to be benefit evenly to all nations. 90% of those h 1b in the us are from india.
I'll buy American when American companies hire American. The cars with the most American content are from Honda. Sad but true.
@hz Honestly, why write these, why?
@gp I'd do the farm. Dealing with dung is part of the business. Oh wait....
The real issue isn’t whether jobs move from one place to another. Throughout history, organizations have always looked for the most efficient allocation of resources. The challenge comes when the people making the decisions become increasingly disconnected from the people living with the consequences.
At first the changes are small. A few responsibilities move elsewhere. A few familiar faces disappear. New reporting structures emerge. Everyone is assured that the changes are necessary, strategic, and designed to improve long-term competitiveness.
The metrics look promising. The presentations are polished. The forecasts appear reasonable. Yet somehow the people closest to the work keep asking the same question: if everything is improving, why does it feel like less gets accomplished every year?
Over time, entire systems can become dedicated to maintaining the appearance of productivity rather than producing anything tangible. More meetings are scheduled. More dashboards are created. More updates are requested. More layers are added to explain the layers that were added previously.
My grandfather saw something similar happen on his farm.
He hired a second scarecrow to monitor the first scarecrow. Then a third scarecrow to coordinate the activities of the other two. Eventually there was a quarterly Scarecrow Alignment Council, a Straw Resource Center of Excellence, and a multi-year roadmap for crow engagement. The crows ate everything.
@e3 Why start your own company when you can buy stock in ours and build your career here? Why buy the cow if the milk is free?
@bg if India has so much intelligence and skill in their population, they should start their own car manufacturers. Time to put up or SHUT UP India!!
Holy cow, hold your horses! That's a bit much. You can't just pack your bags, hop across borders, and steal all the local jobs like it's a global game of musical chairs? That is absolutely bananas!
@a7 ironically if you go by the old AI=An Indian joke, this goes both ways lol
Now that our lord and savior has slowed H-1B to a crawl. Why don't they put a heavy tariff on services imported from overseas - and require filings on number of employees overseas and wage information? It seems like it would be fairly easy to estimate the value of services rendered to corporations.
remember when they tricked us into "buy american?"
@a6 College students are already protesting the use of AI, imagine their reaction when they realize the offices filled with the jobs they want are staffed by foreign workers living in crowded apartments and sending money home.
Is anyone else slightly worried that the entire white collar machine running US corporations has already been shipped overseas? With the H1B situation looking more like a magic trick and Dearborn basically turning into a Bollywood set, I’m curious what corporate America will look like in 20 years. Just wait until a politician grabs this as their new favorite toy to slam companies as "un American" while college grads are out here eating instant noodles and wondering why they can't find a job. All that DEI talk was great until the wind changed direction and suddenly those executive decisions smell a lot less like "progress" and a lot more like "oops." Mark my words, next election cycle someone's gonna call it out, and companies will be forced to spill the beans on their numbers, like a corporate version of "truth or dare".
Are you outraged that India's government supports it's citizens feeling entitled to H1B, or are you outraged that the Trump administration has figured out ways to limit H1B outside legislation because our congress is bought and paid for by corporations who like to suppress labor wages?