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H.R. 5921, The High Skilled Per Country Level Elimination Act (8 comments ↓)
H.R. 5921 would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per country level for employment-based immigrants and to end the spill-over of unused immigrant visa numbers between employment-based and family-sponsored categories.
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Enrique C
This bill is definitely going to hurt professional immigrants from countries with low immigration rates. Diversity will be hindered.
Ska
This bill is long due. Makes no sense to talk about diversity here. For that, there is a separate diversity lottery here. Common-sense will tell you that China or India will produce more high-skilled professionals than a country say Nicaragua by their sheer size of population. Dont see why Chinese/Indians ought to be penalized by waiting in line for ages, while they are being productive members of the society.
TR
It's really the Indians that are effected by this problem. That's because the bodyshop "consulting" companies that they have set up here in U.S are abusing the system. I don't see why the others should pay the price. Keep the diversity and stop abusing the system.
Rahul
I strongly disagree with TR's and Enrique's comments here. Here is why. The bill is related to employment based immigration, in any socio-economic environment labor is a commodity which is driven through demand and supply. In a free economy, restricting market forces would not yield any good and neither would restricting the competition within labor market. Indian/Chinese skilled labor force would shift to different economies while this economy would wait some other demography to catch up with these two demography. Present estimates are India-4% and China-4.7% of total immigrants. You may choose to wait for say Afghani population (2007 - 1753 got PR though every country has 7% of EB based quota 100000+) to fill up the labor demands or get skilled labor (techs, teachers, nurses, researchers) irrespective of nationality. If there is some misuse of the system that should be dealt differently through enforcement. Enforcement of law should be separate from economics.
Enrique C
Ska and Rahul, you can say whatever you want, the bottomline is that for every 10 immigrants, there will be 5 or more from India and China. If Americans are OK with that, fine with me. I doubt it, though.
TR
Rahul,
I don’t buy the argument that only India and China produce the brightest people who are willing to work here in U.S. There are just as many people from Europe and the rest of the world who are just as qualified and who would want to work in the U.S. The problem starts with the H1-B visas, where most of them are taken by these Indian IT consulting companies. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think these IT companies hire non-Indian workers. There are many qualified people from the rest of the world who are willing to work here in U.S, but can’t because the majority of the H1-B visas is going to Indians and Chinese nationals. Perhaps, there should be a per-country quota at the H1-B level. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the current country quota; if some countries don’t use their quotas then these quotas roll into the countries that have higher demand.
MS
Rahul
'ndian/Chinese skilled labor force would shift to different economies '
Please do - we are waiting eagerly.
limbo
It makes sense to eliminate caps for EB1 and EB2, BUT NOT EB3!! Everyone knows of the sweat shops that hire only people from India. Supply and demand is bunk. It's all about gaming the system to gain an advantage and monopolize the limited number of visas. This one has to go down, BIG TIME.