On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:47:13 -0800, Joe Feise wrote:
>Oliver Costich wrote on 11/10/05 08:43:
>
>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:42:32 -0700, Joe Feise wrote:
>>
>>> Oliver Costich wrote on 10/22/05 13:54:
>>>
>>>> My wife, al legal immigrant and naturalized citizen, has masters
>>>> degrees in both Computer Science and Systems Analysis plus 10 years
>>>> experience. She has been unemployed for over 2 years.
>>>>
>>>> Where's the shortage of citizens who can do these high tech jobs?
>>>> There isn't any.
>>>
>>> There is. The skillset of your wife may not match what companies are searching
>>> for, or the companies in the area where you live may not have the jobs that
>>> would match your wife's skillsets.
>>
>> Or maybe she won't work as cheap as an H1B. We are willing to relocate
>> anywhere in the US. The skillset they are looking for is high skills
>> at a low price.
>
>
>People on H1 have to be paid the prevailing wage.
A sham. That may be the law but by hiring experienced H1Bs into jobs
that require the experience but are titled as entry level or at least
lower they can pay less. Notice that there is not one single person
who is assigned to monitoring this requirement so how is it enforced?
>
>>> I've seen the mistake you are making all the time in discussions about the H1:
>>> you come to invalid conclusions from a particular personal situation.
>>
>> And from the data reported by IEEE.
>
>
>There is no data reported by the IEEE. There is something reported by IEEE-USA,
>which is a separate entity. IEEE-USA has misrepresented such data in the past,
>to further their particular agenda, so there is no reason whatsoever to believe
>their misrepresentation now.
>
>-Joe
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