- What to expect during H1B Visa 2011 season? Will you find companies to file H1B Visa?
Economy is in recession and H1B Visa 2010 season is on its way. Applications have to be submitted for H1B Visa in the month of April 2009. With economy in recession, its hard to find job. More than 500,000 workers lost job just in month of January. So, U.S. government is lending money to banks, but banks that get the bailout money cannot hire H1b Visa workers for next 2 years.
Why Strict Rule for H1B Hiring
So, if you are planning to apply H1B Visa 2010 then its tough decision to make. Already so many are in US without jobs, and if new bill becomes law where companies cannot hiring H1b workers, then you know it will be tough to get job.
Some are predicting economy will get better by end of this year. But, lets assume if that happens, about 3 million people who are in US without jobs will also be competing with ones who applied H1B Visa 2010. There are few economist predicting this situation will last for another 2-3 years. some are predicting number of petitions for H1B visa this year will be far less than last year.
If new rule is passed, then so many banks cannot apply for H1b visa and small companies are not in hiring mode, they will also not file H-1b applications. So, this effect will be reflected to consulting firms who file visa applications for employees who are located outside US. Overall the impact of the new strict H1B hiring rule will reduce the number of H1B visa applications for FY 2010. If you planning to for this year, make sure you select a good consulting firm who has reputed immigration attorney to file your application.
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folks , I accidentally came across this blog. Don’t you need to have job offer before your consultant can file yr visa
Thank god I have GC and don’t need this h1b crap
Hi Chanti,
Could you please do let me know the consultant name or number so i can also try to get in touch with them…..Please help me…i m loooking fr H1b this year but could not get any counsultant.
Your help will be appreciated dear…thnx
Hi, Need help from you all…can anyone tell me if the H1B quota for this year is full or we still have some scope..? Also, it would be wonderful if someone could suggest me a good consultant to apply for visa!
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I am an electrical enginner working for more than three years in IT , in a reputed US based IT firm. Can anybody please let me know chances of my H1B Visa getting approved if my current employer is filing an H1B for me on 2nd July ? Please help.
Hi
Its a IT guy dream to go to us and work on H1 but now with the changed rules , its not a piece of cake guys, even you get a job here once the contract is over if you are on bench for 2 months or more these companes send you home..the irony is once you need to go india for some perpose there is alwyas tension if you will be permitted in..
if one is career minded rather than money hungry i would advise to come thro a good company instead of reliing on small consuting companies.
think twice before you apply..there are lot of opps in india and singapore also.
Hi,
I am working in a IT firm in India form past 3 years. Iam looking forward to apply for my H1,can any one help me by providing me a good consultancy.
Thanks in advance
I’m an American. Born and raised in the USA. My Parents were born and raised in the USA. I graduated from a good school with a computer science degree many years ago. I worked in IT for over 24 years for five different companies. I have always worked hard and yes was more than willing to sacrifice a holiday to meet a deadline or help make my employer successful. I’ve excelled in every company I worked for and was rewarded much recognition and reward. My company went out of business in December 2009 and I’ve been out of work for about six months. What amazes me is that I an American with more experience and qualifications than many of these H1B visa holders and I can’t find a job yet they are still employed and in this country. Many of these people have no intention of becoming US citizens and basically want to make US coin so they can send it back to India where they eventually will retire. I think it’s shameful that a US born citizen can’t find a job and yet an H1b Visa holder is still employed. I also find the outright discrimination of American citizens by these India based consulting companies to be shameful and when I say American citizens I’m not saying white, black, or Hispanic because this discrimination is against Americans including those of Indian decent. I think the Indian companies that practicing outright discrimination should be identified, fined and shutdown. I’m a native born American of Hispanic decent and proud of it. Having a job in America that I’ve been educated for and am qualified for is my birth right. Our government should not allow for that to be sacrificed for greed or what is perceived to be a higher quality product / resource for less money. Just being Indian doesn’t make you smart. India has a huge population and the majority if illiterate. I know plenty of Indians who lack the common sense to tie their shoes.
Hi,
Why don’t you go and try to do someother job other than computers/IT? If you compete for the same IT position with a foreigner and you win the job, congrats bud ! But if the foreigner is better than you, let him have the cake buddy !
Afterall, your parents or grandparents or their grandparents were in the same shoes as the foreigner who is competing wih you…you, the ‘AMERICAN’
I strongly recommend you to recycle and update your skills with the most recent and emergent technologies.
Stop blaming others, take action instead.
I do not know any american, indian, chinese, … who has an update resume out of the market.
The world change … IT change faster yet …
John,
I know times are tought and your skills are needed. You just need to find the right company.
Would you consider a small company in the middle of the US?
John Smith you are so ashamed of being unemployed you can’t give even give your real name out. Please remember, we Indians don’t complain when Multi-national companies like Coke, Pepsi, McDonald and hundered others go to india and haul tons of Indian coin so they can post a fat Quarterly profit (assuming chances of US economy getting better is as good you finding a job).
So welcome to global world. We are past the Slave-Master employement and agriculture era. Welcome to twenty-first centuary where competition is the name of the game.
if u want good consult mail me i will reply you for good one .
It’s very shame on Indian Consultancies who are doing dishonest business just to make money, I do agree with the above comments that certain community or region people plays a vital role in ruining this job market and also ruining the opportunities of really deserving intelligent graduates. Forget about Indian or any other nationalities this is the country for everyone . I have seen lot other country students who is more deserving doesn’t get a job in entry level due to the Indian Consultancies fake resumes. They fake the resumes and teach and train their dumb asses in the job perpectives and still these mother’s F**** can’t clear the Interview of their own and these F******* forward the call to someone who has real time experience to clear the Interview. I was thinking does this Dick Headed People with no brains and talents why are they here, Just to make money in a dishonest way and ruining this country as their fore father ruined India by bribing and forgery all these shit. does they share their wife the neighbours, and their mom sleep’s with everyone. compare to these people the red light prostitute are far better. I have a complete list of all these consultancies as far as I know .We are thinking of reporting the frauds to USCIS.
@ Karthick,
Please mind your language when you are addressing Indians, for that matter anybody. You sound soo illiterate calling the Indian graduates as Dick Heads. All the big companies have INDIANS in their top positions.
Check Out http://www.justsharethis.com/indian-ceos-list-in-big-u-s-companies/
I accept that some companies have abused the US immigration laws, but there is always good and bad in any country. Please report such fraudulent companies to USCIS.
May I ask you which country you are from? I bet I can send you a list of frauds in your country.
Just to let you know, I have been working in US for 3 years and never came across an american citizen who can sacrifice his/her holiday for work. They are only good at talking s**t to customers. Sorry guys, thats the truth.
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Raghu
Proud to be an INDIAN…Jai Ho!!!!
I don’t have to convince you that INDIA is a GREAT COUNTRY.
Hey raghu ,
I’m not cursing all the Indian Graduates nor Indians. I’m talking about the people who fake things to get a job. Even I’m a Graduate from NYC(around 6 years) and I was very badly affected by these consultancies. I can’t stop cursing these guys who is ruining the market and also future’s of innocent graduates……anyway I’m sorry I can’t help it.
what you talking about ” I have been working in US for 3 years and never came across an american citizen who can sacrifice his/her holiday for work ”
I hope you are in L1 or H1B .If you have work visa you gotta work May be atleast get a GC or Citizenship, If you wanna enjoy all these previleges. Why are you talking about sacrifice If you dont want to work in the weekends Quit the job and try to get another.
you know that “you re not gonna get it since we have lot of restriction “. All I want to say “we should not spoil our name(Indians) since there are more people in India want to come here(really deserving People)”.I know about L1 visa’s since I have lot friends working here in L1. I do know how you guys hard work your company jus treat you like a donkey putting piles of files on you guys for whatever you’re getting paid.
Please send me If you have more list of Fraud Companies
I’m an Indian too. Proud to be an Indian. jai hind
@ Karthick, you are such a JACK ASS to speak such things about Indians. You better watch your mouth.. Indians come to work here because they have worked hard in school and college unlike an average american kid who either does not complete schooling or drops off from college..H1B and L1 people make money here,, pay the taxes here and they donot get any benefits what and american gets.. Open your eyes, look around you.. it is we Indians who are running the show, running all big MNC’s. Ofcourse there are consultancies who have abused the immigration system,, All you need to do is – make a complaint to USCIS but dont use such words like their wives sleep with neighbors and all that SHIT..dont be an ASS and grow up dude..
Hi Karthick, I plan to go for H1B visa thru one consultancy. Kindly advise me whether I can proceed ? They are asking more money. How to identify the good consultancy ? My mail id is manyyaa@yahoo.com , I am awaiting for your reply.
Hi
I am trying H1B Visa thro one consultant in india.Can I accept consultant job/H1B visa to come to USA and then later can i change the better job?
I am have 14 years experince on Infrastructure management on Unix Administration.
I am working for a reputed IT firm in india and having an experience of aout 6 yrs. I want to apply for a H1, can sombody provide for a good consultant.
Thanks in Advance
this is just great, add another short-sighted rule on H1B which already has another stupid restriction by having a quota on H1B applications. Those illegal immigrants and fraud political asylees don’t have a quota to enter and stay in USA!!!!By keeping highly educated professionals come to USA to contribute to this country, and let those fraud asylees obtain green cards and then sucking money from US government to subsidize them, where is this country going? Are those senators and law makers are blind or their brian just short circuited?
one more thing, i feel weird about is that when foreigners apply for a travel visa to USA, why the denial reason is that the applicants have “immigrant intent”. I mean isn’t USA built by immigrants.
I THINK THE DECREASE IN NUMBER OF PETITIONS IS NOT ONLY DUE TO THE RECESSION BUT ALSO THE TARP LAW THAT WAS SIGNED. THEN AGAIN—THE TARP WAS STEMMED FROM MR. RECESSION HIMSELF……
BUT HOPEFULLY THE H1B APPLICANTS WOULD BE LUCKIER THAN THOSE OF THE PAST, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THERE IS LESS A CHANCE OF THERE BEING A LOTTERY IN THE EARLIER DAYS.
will this new h1b hiring rules affect physical therapist and nurses profession too?
If you are coming to USA on H1B, resigning in Indian Company have a backup plan always. Like keep a job offer from another indian company and have the joining date after 2 months. If things turn bad you can go back settle in new job. It’s only a suggestion.. All the best for all new H1B aspirants..
If you have a job in India then why do you guys want to come to US and get a job over here. You can wait till the market gets good right…
Hi,
Can any one tell me whether there is another assessment/ verification process of applicants even after he or she gets at H1B visa number from (may be) the randon lottery? Are there chances for him/ her losing the h1b visa from that process at a later stage after paying all processing fee etc by the company?
For heaven’s sake 3 million software developers and other IT professionals are NOT unemployed in the US as thisblog suggests . Situation is not so bad at all…
But yes if drivers, receptionists, insurance salesmen, bank clerks and waiters are being brought into the US on doctored papers, they will have to fight for jobs with the citizens…
You think statistically. For one who does loose the job and/or cannot apply for new one and has to be departed because of H1 restrictions your statistics does not help. Besides I never heard about drivers/clerks coming to US on H1 visa.
If US citizen cannot compete with foreign professional he should do everything
to survive the race without breaking legs for his competitor. And even indian
programmers are ready to work for less money (I heard this only theoretically, because in my field, for instance, there is no salary discrimination and I don’t understand how it is working practically) so this is an economics. If a employer
does not want to pay more money and is not allowed to pay less he will outsource
the job and out job market will suffer anyway.
@Milind – I’m not sure if you are misread. We said 3 million jobs lost in US not IT developers. Here’s link for you http://www.vault.com/companies/layoffs.jsp to tracker all the companies laying off workers. Situation is not bad at all if you live close to people that are not losing jobs. But if you happen to live close to where whole plant is closing and entire town is depended on that plant.
I dont think, there will be any decrease in no. of petitions this year.
Hi,
As far as i know, many consultants have not filed for H1B visas this year. I tried to get in touch with many consultants thru my friends & cousins who are living in USA for ages, but hardly i could find one.Fortunately i found one out of many who is ready to file a H1B for me..So, statistically, i understand that the number of applications for H1B for the 2010 fiscal year are comaparitively less but not too less than last year.I also heard from my friends that there will be no lottery this time around since only a fair number of applications are recieved by the USCIS, where the lottery system is required.
Anyway, ALL THE BEST TO EVERY ONE WHOEVER IS IN THIS CAMPAIGN.
).
Cheers
CHANTI.
HI Chinty,
Could you please do let me know the consultant name or number so i can also try to get in touch with them…..Please help me…i m loooking fr H1b this year but could not get any counsultant.
thanks
I agree with you. The number of applications will be in the range of 150-200K atleast on first day. All students and people who failed in lottery last time will apply.
Let me explain. 163 K people applied. 85K got accepted. That means 78K will apply. Last year around 35K applied for masters quota. Number of students applying will be growing by 20% every year. Therefore from students around 42K will be applying. Indian consulting companies will file around 50K and US consulting will file around 30K (far less than last time). therefore adding it will be 200K. Some people who try last year may not be trying again therefore i say it will be between 175K to 200K.
Our senators seem to have quite short view horizon restricting H1B visas. The smartest and most active immigrants in a few years after coming opne their own business and finally generate new jobs.
US is built by immigrants all US success is from immigration, especially high-end professionals. If one cannot compete with an immigrant on a job market he does not deserve this job and has to learn hard in order to compete. H1B holders pays all taxes and do not have social rights like unemployment bebefits etc. Literally they support all our social base of pensions for free.
We are killing ourselves restricting professionals work in US.
This bill create a problem for H1B Extension ??? I have to apply for extension in Sep-09 after my 3 years H1B visa. I know that H1B is valid for 6 years, so this bill create a problem for people like me. one more thing, our company will not get any money from stimulus package.
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Does this also apply for employees working in firms which are not in TARP. Companies like start up which are still not public and need software engineers will hire new H1B Software Graduates?
How much this new bill if passed is going to affect Software Engineers required to work in firms which are not TARP firms?
This is what happened recently for H1B candidate at port of entry..
Immigration office asked.. the contact number of the employer..
he called the HR.. and checked whether how long back they tried to hire citizen/GC holder for the same position. And HR said.. 3 months before.. Then he asked.. do you think nobody in US will fit for this position.. then HR said.. if we try again.. we may get one..
THAT’S… the guy deported back to india. So, be careful.. till you enter inside the country.
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