In 2013, the fairness for high skilled Immigrants act was introduced in parallel with CIR. Why can't it be done now? @RepZoeLofgren plz introduced the Durbin-Lee agreement. If #USCAct2021 passes, then all is well and good. If not, we march ahead with our bill. #RemoveCountryCaps

Thanks to the H1B program. x.com/heyshrutimishra/status…

Indians are highly selected yes, but also shackled by per-country caps in the skilled immigration pathway and forced to wait 10-15 years before they can truly have the freedom to pursue entrepreneurship. Rather than a total immigrant population (which includes temporary visas, student visas and even undocumented), a reasonable estimate would be to look at the principal workers in the employment green card category (almost half of employment green cards go to spouses & kids, especially for those from backlogged countries) The numbers then make a lot more sense. India moves into the top tier when you use a denominator closer to people who could actually found companies.

Impact of discriminatory per-country caps Same education/skills Same eligibility requirements Same immigration category Same agencies doing the vetting Born in India: petition approved 13 YEARS AGO --> greencard on hold Born elsewhere: petition approved YESTERDAY --> greencard on fast track

PERM is not a "hiring process." It's a theoretical "test of the labor market." If an employer doesn't do a bona fide test of the labor market, the PERM application should be denied by the Labor Dept. It has nothing to do with hiring discrimination at all.

RT @ThePrimeagen: @levelsio the answer is rather simple. "hey this tech is super cool, look at what i can do!" - agreed. it is pure magic…

Blast from the past dailycaller.com/2018/08/13/i…

How the tables have turned. The same immigrant "students" who worked in cahoots with anti-immigrants & often outright racists to spread all sorts of lies & misinformation about a bill to remove national origin discrimination, are currently faced with the same discrimination. That country of birth is an immutable characteristic, will hopefully not be lost on them now. #USCISpause

Your home is where your life is. Your job. Your spouse. Your child's school. Your mortgage. Your decade of tax returns. India is where you were born. America is where you live. These people flew to India for two weeks — a parent's funeral, a wedding, a medical emergency. They had valid H-1B visas and confirmed appointments. Then the State Department cancelled thousands of interviews overnight. No new regular slots in 100 days. Rescheduled into 2027. Their kids are in American schools. Their rent is due. Their managers are asking when they're coming back. And the answer is: nobody knows. When the government traps you 8,000 miles from your family and livelihood with no timeline and no recourse , yes, you are stranded. The country you're standing in doesn't change that.

RT @Cloudwatch199: 100 days. That's how long it's been since a single regular H-1B appointment slot was released in India. All 5 consula…

From heart of unfortunate hateland for Indians in America aka Frisco TX, Neha spoke quite onto the point, called out hate with data and facts. She deserves a loud applause 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The brand damage one person can do to @ycombinator is just crazy!

We must get to the bottom of this. If this is true, then the @StateDept has a serious problem - we cannot have someone who is a foreign national work for or have ties to the State Department and influence to deport innocent people who have done nothing illegal or anything that is a violation of their Visas. This is not ok! @SecRubio

This immigrant is ruining many Americans' lives by harassing them for no reason. @USCIS should take a bit and investigate her K1 visa.

This is when I decided to sell $tsla Don't know what @elonmusk smokes sometimes 😅 youtube.com/shorts/5krJIVjjj…

unpopular opinion: ai creating binary directly is a dumb idea no matter how many billions you have in your account

Still couldn't beat Claude in coding. Anthropic definitely has done something special for coding.

Suppression of freedom of speech because ICE, Trump, Miller got caught red-handed pants down. #FreeSpeech

I've honestly lost all respect for @friedberg. He went on and on with his long posts when @RoKhanna was discussing the wealth tax. After everything that happened in Minneapolis, he's been so silent. It seems like all four of them (All In mafia) are just sucking up Trump's D.

Basically none of the anti-immigrant talking points apply to Indian immigrants "Cant speak english" "Are on welfare" "Engage in high crimes" "Dont assimilate" "Take more than they give" "Dont pay taxes" "Are literal spies" Yet Indians seem to be the most talked about immigrant group and its clear why! X monetization $$

The ironic thing here is that the indentured servitude that H-1Bs face is primarily due to the green card sponsorship process. H-1Bs *can* switch jobs. But the moment the employer wants to retain the H-1B worker by sponsoring them for a green card, the employer has to conduct a labor market test that takes 500 days for DOL to evaluate. If the worker is Indian, it will take them many years (sometimes well over a decade or multiple decades) to obtain a green card. As long as the worker remains in the green card queue, they can't switch employers unless the employer is willing to completely restart the 500 day labor maket test. There are few circumstances where an employer has the luxury of waiting 500 days to fill a vacant position. Yes, there is an aspect of indentured servitude that harms labor market outcomes for both foreign and US workers. Ironically, the very thing that shifts the landscape in favor of employers and against workers is the labor market test meant to protect US working conditions. Before 2005, there was a policy that allowed H-1Bs in the green card backlog to more easily change jobs. When the policy was discontinued, startup formation fell while incumbent firm stock prices outperformed the market. kenaninstitute.unc.edu/kenan…