Immigration Bill - Impact on H1B employees for H1B dependent employers

[tskeerthi]

The immigration bill is alarming to H1B holders - it places an outright ban on placement of H1B holders at client site. I am concerned - as it definitely impacts my employer (a large Indian IT company) - I am sure a lot of employees are outright H1B holders. What will happen to employees like us - will there be large scale lay-offs leaving people like us in the lurch? I am very very concerned right now.

[JoeF]

There is a lot of abuse of the existing rules by shady consulting companies.

Why were you silent about that?

The provisions about consulting in the CIR are the direct consequence of such BS as middle vendors. Stuff like EV..C does not make any economic sense.

You could easily be hired by the end client, for a savings for them. Just the abuse of IT consulting would end.

[omshiv]

Right now? You don't have to be concerned that much as its still a long way before its being implemented. And btw it's all because of desi fraud employers.

[inspiring_progress]

Almost all big IT consulting companies commit fraud. I hope this bill gives them a very hard time.

 

I used to just hear that there were frauds being committed by IT companies by forging resumes, experiences, references and even interviews. Recently I got first hand experience of this from a big IT company, which initially promised to get a job for my friend in her field of interest but at the last moment they changed her resume, included fake experience, removed her Masters education from her resume to include fake experience, included fake references and also said that interview will be a piece of cake as she won't be giving it. I was shocked as this came from a company which successfully got 1000s of H1Bs as per **************.com and many many hundreds of green cards. Many of my friend's colleagues were fine with this unethical approach as they needed a job. Many even told her that this is normal. I am finally glad to know that she didn't take up this job on ethical reasons. I hope many others act in this manner. Engineering is all about ethics and sadly many sell their soul for H1Bs. I hope senior posters here get more critical about people talking about easy green cards and H1Bs, consultants, EVC blah blah. If you want to come and live in the land of opportunities then you should do it legally and not in a criminal way.