Comments on: Dim outlook for H-1B changes in this Congress?

Adviser to key Republican politician and other fans of the controversial temporary worker visas say politics likely to get in the way of increasing the annual cap soon.

[go_getter007]

The whole notion of H-1Bs being underpaid is absurd. May be your sample size is incredibly small with only back office IT folks. I know enough H-1Bs who are into management consulting with elite firms, investment banking on wall street, medicine etc. and believe me they're very highly paid. Protectionism and pseudo patriotism are nothing but a veil to cover one's own shortcomings.

The H-1B visa program has a strong history of fraudulent means to expand and maintain this controversial program. Free-market advocate and Nobel economist Milton Friedman correctly noted in a 2002 article the the H-1B visa program is a "government subsidy" program that facilitates employer's access to highly-skilled labor at below-market wages.

You may learn more by reading the author's 2008 investigative article "The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit" at http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/eighteen-one/tsc_18_1_nelson.pdf

This article establishes a strong set of links between corrupt lawyer-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, his team, some corrupt legislators and Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft expended a total of about $100 million in direct and indirect legislative expenses between 1995 and 2000 to help procure three employer-friendly changes to H-1B visa legislation.

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This aspect of the Abramoff Scandal is still very alive. See the Cornerstone Government Affairs website to see the biography of "Team Abramoff" member Michael P. Smith http://www.cgagroup.com/staffContent.aspx?id=20&pid=1
Mike has been on the Microsoft account since 2005, according to lobbying disclosure forms. The H-1B visa has been one of Mike's issues for Microsoft. The 2005 and 2006 lobbying disclosures called the program "HB1" perhaps to thwart searches. The typo was corrected in the 2007 disclosure. Microsoft is currently using many other lobbying firms.

Note that a 2007 Microsoft news release informed us that about 1/3 of Microsoft's 46,000 workforce is here on a work visa (or is now a naturalized citizen)

[Rádi Pál]

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[srikrishnan24]

A company called NRISoft.com is wooing H1b visa holders to join their team, by paying them top dollars, up to 92% of billing. I personally work for them and nearly tripled my income. You start out with 90% billing dollars, and very shortly to 92%. Its the most ethical company I ever worked for. What unholyguy is mentioned is already happening. www.nrisoft.com

[srikrishnan24]

http://www.nrisoft.com claims to pay top dollar to H1b employees. One guy claims to be making $160,000.00, nearly triple the wage of the bodyshop he was working for!