H-1B visa announcement
Apr 20th 2017, 9:54 pm
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H-1B visa announcement
The great Donald seems to be on track for limiting the H-1B visa programme to give jobs to Americans.
https://townhall.com/columnists/andy...rican-n2314971
https://townhall.com/columnists/andy...rican-n2314971
Apr 20th 2017, 11:09 pm
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Re: H-1B visa announcement
The great Donald seems to be on track for limiting the H-1B visa programme to give jobs to Americans.
https://townhall.com/columnists/andy...rican-n2314971
https://townhall.com/columnists/andy...rican-n2314971
"“Why is it taking you five years to get through college?” Phyllis asked a student attending one of her college speeches, of which she gave many hundreds. “Because I changed my major from computer science to accounting after I discovered there are almost no jobs available for computer majors,” the student responded."
No jobs for a computer science grad????? wtf.
I know that there has been a huge discussion about this within the Austin tech people. I imagine they will just do remote working more and/or set up more offices outside of the USA.
Matt Mullenweg ( Mr Wordpress billionaire) has his company automattic with just about everyone working remotely all over the world, just his HQ admin staff in the USA. Sign of things to come.
Apr 21st 2017, 12:16 am
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Re: H-1B visa announcement
Well, it's the first time I've seen someone try to bring baseball players into the discussion. 
Apr 21st 2017, 3:14 pm
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Apr 21st 2017, 3:34 pm
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Apr 21st 2017, 7:15 pm
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Re: H-1B visa announcement
Apr 21st 2017, 7:59 pm
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Re: H-1B visa announcement
The fact I did BEng doesn't count , even though I am in an IT job?
Apr 21st 2017, 8:33 pm
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Re: H-1B visa announcement
.... But it's a forgivable error if your son and daughter marry Americans. 
Apr 21st 2017, 9:12 pm
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Re: H-1B visa announcement
Actually our daughter is partnered with an Australian, who also came over to work in IT, although he is a US citizen because he was born there and moved back to Oz as a small child where he was educated and trained in IT. So not strictly an immigrant despite his broad Oz accent.
