Dangerous Times Now For H1B Green Card Backlog! What Can You Do Then?
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
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00:00 Preview
00:47 Introduction and Problem framing
01:22 When and why green card backlog problem start?
5:07 Job search for international students using f1hire
6:55 US laws and immigration rules
9:50 Why 7% per-country cap is not discriminatory
10:50 Why H1B's stuck in green card backlog are wrong when they claim slavery and lack of freedom
12:00 Bad behavior of Desis online on social media
13:20 Why attempts to remove per country cap will fail
14:39 How bad is the situation of green card backlog?
15:49 Solutions for green card backlog
16:45 What demands should be made by backlogged people
17:20 Who are the people who do not want you to get a green card and be stuck in backlog?
Thank you for this informative video!
I came in 2016. My PERM is in process. I am sure I might not get a GC, but one thing baffles me is restrictions around H1-B. I can not start a business, I can not monetize through youtube or social media. I can not travel with ease. And every time I travel outside, I need to get my visa stamped 😑. I don't mind about the G.C. I am worried about restrictions around H1-B. Though it is not true we are slaves. But, atleast I fell this is modern day slavery for the corporate companies😌
I love it when you say in the end "Okay, it is getting quite dark here" right after talking about how people who got their green cards do not want others to get green cards... it's pretty dark indeed! 🙂
it was actually getting dark. It was not intentional though
@@DesiAmericanProfessor yep, I know... just a perfect ending to the video. Very good and unbiased assessment, BTW.
Great informations Professor..an Eye opener 😊❤
Your assessment is partially correct because it is incomplete. If you ask people in GC backlog for more than a decade, they will tell you that they may not want the GC, if you can alleviate their basic issues which is more to do with fairness.
1. Hassle of leaving the country to renew the work permit. Particularly so during and after the pandemic, a slot needs a wait time of more than a year.
2. Children going out of status when they are 21 years of age.
Compounding these basic requirements are:
1. Difficulties in changing jobs.
2. Discriminatory regulations during the pandemic when movement in and out of the country was restricted only for work permit holders.
Emergencies forced many work permit holders to spend days in nightmares.
The solution to this is, just to provide a modified EAD after a particular period say 10 years and let the GC take its own course. If they have come legally and contributed to the US economy, be fair to them. You can retain rules like the worker should be in a job to be in the US etc....
yes, agree to all your points!
Muslims are in India for 1000 years yet you consider them as outsiders😂😂
@@70newlife I do not think so, there have been 15 total presidents of which 3 were Muslims - Zakir Hussian, Fakruddin Ahmed and APJ Abdul Kalam percentage-wise more than the total population % of Muslims in India and India has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia.
In any case, this is not even relevant to the topic of the video.
@@70newlife Muslims in india are not foreigners, they are indians.
I am completely agree with you.
Suggestions you have provided are inline with Professor that propose something for that Senator don’t have to squeeze system much.
1. After 5yrs of I140 approval, there should be EAD and employee free to travel, stamp will be valid till green card comes.
Free to switch Job without making any change at Petitions and GC timeline
2. Non Citizen Child of this category people will have extended rights to stay and work in USA.
Action is must from our side. We need to create a platform or community where we can have all H1B holders together.
Lets do something concrete and make things done.
I agree so much on the STEM PhD. I feel it is extremely unfair to compare us to someone who is getting a masters. Both being called “advanced degree” and being put under the same umbrella is pretty annoying, especially when we know how much dedication, time, effort and energy it takes to get a PhD. I keep saying this all the time. All STEM PhDs deserve more. Having 4 masters degree also can never be equivalent to having one PhD. Period.
I strongly agree with your solutions
The main problem in H1B is to vacate the country in 60 days after layoffs. Forget about preparing, that is very less time to even get interviews, get hired, visa transferred and start role in new company. It creates unwanted stress and uncertainty. Also have to think so many times before doing any investment in US like a home. Yes home is not an investment, but even to get that, you need to have some job security. Best would be to come up like providing EAD for atleast those with I140 approved so that this axe always doesn't hang on top of their head.
Advance parole would help with travel related issues.
THE FUTURE IS IN INDIA WHEREIN NON I.T SECTORS USE I.T TOOLS AND GROW...
It's valid argument, when you are sitting on other side, but maybe govt can help or give choice to withdraw their green card application and leave the country. SSN tax and other that we wont even get to use in life time, people can relocate home country and start their new life from fresh. Put country cap for 140 Approval if not H1B, so ppl can leave after 6 years of work and take back their tax contribution if they can't live here or chose to not live here.
Great point…put country cap on I140 Approvals.
Or make H1B renewal only for certain fixed period….not unlimited extensions. System is nicely designed to trap the Indians and that’s how tech companies, attorneys are making profit.
Very well spoken Sir👍🏻!!!
Diversity is an argument......but its not a great argument. Because the same congressmen and senators who defend to uphold diversity in immigration programs, would immediately flip when illegal immgrants are concerned.
There are 1 million legal immigrants waiting and probably wait whole lifetime in the back log. Compare that to 10-15 million illegals waiting to be legalized in US. So lets extrapolate the same fairness and diversity criteria to illegal side of affairs as well. Why only Latinos and Spanish speaking population mostly from south of US be the largest beneficiaries of any legalization process. For sake of diversity lets have a quota system and per country cap in legalization of illegals as well.
If any sort of immigration that is threat to diversity is more likely to be illegal immigrants than the legal immigrants, I mean that is margin of 15 times over. I know diversity is the stated objective of US immigration, then how come in amnesty laws passed in past 40-50 years and there have been quite a few, legalization has happend sans diversity.
I point that, not as a obvious flaw in the argument, rather to point out, as an immigrant its not your business to say what should be the immgration policy of US should be. Whether its fair or unfair or inbetween its just not your place to cry foul.
Great video Dr. Sambhara. I think coming to the US for MS is not worth it anymore if you want to immigrate to the US. Ph.D. is the only good option for that.
Dear sir,
Can you please make videos regarding the master's in UK vs. USA in the STEM field (specifically industrial engineering for me) considering all the important factors such as fees, pay scale, PR, opportunities etc.
Prof, your closing statement is awesome 😅
Great video! btw what are you upto? no new videos lately!
I totally support all your points especially related to GC quota for every nation, just to aid or serve one community ( here Indians), why should other citizens who don't have much of their people suffer?
R u U.S. citizen?
Being H1B l feel that l am in a vicious circle. H1B is doomed
i got 15 full time jobs with 0 sponserships I'm doomed on h1b don't know what to do i had 2 masters 1 mba
@@drbh6331 Hello Sir, hope you are doing fine. Could you please tell me in what streams you have 2 masters? That would be really kind of you.
@@drbh6331 move to India
@@drbh63312 masters and 1 Mba? How many education loans you took? 😢
Go to another country like Switzerland or Luxembourg.
I respectfully disagree with your pov. Why is there system of EB1 that bypasses the queue ahead of people who have been in the queue for years?
People must understand the Green card is not more valuable than their life. Should make conscious decision based on circumstances.
I honestly don’t care about the green card anymore. It’s no longer that appealing. India has far outpace US in terms of growth in the past few years. The one thing I would have like US immigration to fix is make it flexible for ppl from backlogged countries who would probably never get their green card to ease their travel status so we can move freely outside the country. I missed very important events, even my wife’s grandmothers funeral due to no visa slots available.
I think, if USA is putting country wise cap on Green Card then they should put cap on student visa also.
They are not doing this because they want get money from India, and when comes to green card 140 billion people country is compared with much smaller one. This is unfair from USA to UNO.
Why should they put a limit on F1 visas, students are clearly saying their intention is to study and come back. Now they cannot ask for GC like they are entitled to it. For US colleges, F1 is way to spread knowledge to global students and increase revenue. Not a GC providing system. It’s the students fault for not understanding the system and thinking they could get it all.
It has been established that getting a degree and settling in the country should not be connected. besides when you write your SOP you mention that you are going to return. F1 is only for studying. Even if an american came to india and studied you think they would get PR after that ?
i have a blunt question , have you got your gc and if so how please explain
yes he is a citizen
Additionally, green card is permanent residency not citizenship. I can agree putting controls on citizenship, but why on greencards.
Because Indians trash everything. There should be a tighter cap on us. 😅
I’m an Indian f1 student doing undergrad. Getting a green card felt like a life goal. Honestly those hopes were shattered a while back but watching this video just made me feel sick😢 oh well
Country cap is necessary, if anyone have doubt on it, look how Canada going down..
What if I come on O1B visa? I get unlimited extensions. But, when I apply for the green card through my employer will the wait time for green card will be the same as those with H1B visas? i.e 150 - 200 years.
No , as far as I know, different categories have different wait times
Doesn't matter if it's O1 or L1. wait time is a function of a country of birth and Employment based category 1/2/3/4/5
Just produce a kid and wait 21 yrs 😂
So unfair for EB1A and EB1B people. I dont understand why EB1C is included in EB1.
Exactly. EB1(C) should be removed so that Indians can get EB1(A) or EB1(B) green card within a year.
Would step 2 even happen without step 1?
Thanks for sharing! F1 Hire really helps us international students a lot in us job market!
Maybe instead of country wise allocation they should have made it zone wise.
Each zone having few countries.
Local American people are worried about their local culture and values would be taken from them by other people, i meet few guys here and according them they dont want USA to become Canada where other people taken over culture and political strength to manipulate in their favor.
Congress will never change any laws to Favour Indians on country cap, there are too many lobbyists who will oppose this as it will discriminate against other countries while their wait time can increase significantly, the best solution is India become an economic superpower so no need to come here.
They already are a superpower with the most labor exporting capacity and 131 gdp rank (per capita)😂
why not 7% quota on H1B and i140 why only on green cards there is a fault in the system
as I said in the video, there is no quota on temporary visas like student visa, h1b, tourist visas etc. When this quota was made, the idea was to maintain diversity and nobody thought so many from one country would choke up the system. The backlog issue was not there for a very long time. Only 20 years later the backlog started to develop.
What about eb1c ?
The last category is quite disgusting like “pulling up the drawbridge” as they say in Britain.
The solutions you discussed are from the POV of the government and legislation.
From the POV of the immigrants, the best solution is the EB1 path as used by a couple of my friends.
On a different note, The US immigration system is so bad that my girlfriend and I are leaning towards living in England permanently rather than go through the process to live in the US. She went through the process (after having moved as a child from India) and now living in Britain.
Hindi Speech? Any link?
Many Indian people who moved to the US for education in 2015 mocked my friend, who decided to study in a top Canadian university (UofT). He was called names and tagged a loser because he did not study in the US.
Fast forward to today - he is now well settled in Canada with a Canadian passport, a beautiful house with $350k in equity, an Audi worth $100k, small debt, and a job that pays above $200k.
And most of those self-proclaimed ‘succesful’ Indians who studied in the US are either back in India because they were laid off and could not find a job or oh H1B with constant fear of losing a job, or in Canada on a PR with no certainty on their future and a hefty pay cut of 30%. Their American dream was short-lived, whereas my friend travels the world for fun with his strong passport.
To H1b people? Please come to India, modi will give you ration card........lol
What should Modi give? You earn it...
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If you think about it, USA has so many issues such as drugs, violence and this green card backlog. And yet people are still flocking to the USA. This itself shows that no matter what the immigration problems are people are still desperate to settle there. If this was any other country people would easily get up and leave the country. There is absolutely no incentive for the government to change this.
Sir biochemistry is good in USA for as an biochemistry professor?
I found courage and delcined green card process and moved back to India in Dec. 2016 when Trump won. This Feb I'll complete 7 yrs. working as remote consultant for US client.
Do you want award or not?
Then how do you work for a US client without a work permit and an Indian employer to pay you in India? Do they pay in INR?
@gandianjaneyam people should give you an award for being a bitter loser, instead
Moving to the USA illegally is far more easier than migrating legally.
Inspired by Dunki, I'm going to try that next year.
All the best
🤣
One suggestion, if you love your life, close family and your or immediate family's money earned, don't even think, worst is even if you manage to enter US as undocumented, telling since ihave studied like the Professor in the US another same time when he studied, but returned to India due to visa issues as he has mentioned here, rest , Best luk!!
Lol
Ram Rajya India me aagaya. Mudji has made Ram Temple, every week mosques even 800 year old ones are being demolished. Why go to US?
Tell people not to go to usa not waste money and go to a dangerous gun ridden country
Still 1000 times better than India.
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I would say - making a max wait time cap for the employment based GC to 8-10 years would be a better solution. Ex - if the max wait time is 8-10 years then those waiting will have a clear expectation they we will be getting it in 8-10 years and also most of the kids of them would be covered before they turn 21.
Indian immigration system is harder in some ways compared to US.
1) OCI cards of foreign spouses get cancelled if divorce happens but US doesn't cancel permanent green card through marriage in the event of divorce.
2) India does not allow dual citizenship while US does.
3) If my knowledge if correct, India doesn't have a permanent residency through job. It only gives temporary residency through investment, which is much more in amount than US requires for investment green card.
Its by design. India is over populated and doesn't want more non-citizens living/working there.
I don’t wish h1b on my worst enemy - your exploited throughout the program (govt, employer, schools etc)
You forgot to mention one more thing too... If everyone gets Green Cards easily lot of youtubers will stop making videos on this topic too. Now it is fun for them making videos... Lots of people have already forgot about Green Card... What if they get green card or not? If they get it ok otherwise they are going to keep extending their Visas. If Visas are a pain too they will go to their home country. Not a big deal.. By the way I am in same situation too.. Also you didn't talk about parents getting green card through their children...
Country cap is an absurd !
1) I have seen kids who came to us around 7-8 months have been decades still in h4 . How are DACA kids different! They have all the privileges! So legal dreamer kids are forced on to green card backlog again.
After staying in this country for they life ! Which country they belong to
2) this is employment high skilled , ideally it shouldn’t be country based Highest skilled person should be encouraged . Put some rules for highest skills I am fine with. Just because you come from small country you’re not previleged .
Some one from other country who is data analyst or operator gets green card in 6 months. It is very difficult to work for 15-20 years in this backlog ( definitely we need high skilled ) have your job thru recession
3) I am ok to have country cap , but have country cap on Olympics
Have country cap on senate and house. So that every body will have equal participation like reservation
Have country cap on everything
Why only highly skilled employment based !!
If they really think it is fixable option . But they don’t they are several reasons for it .
They were several if they think they can fix it
1) exclude family members from backlog
2) we have lot of illegal immigrants coming into the country working for lively hood ! Some states are supporting it !
3) when we change jobs, ( so called freedom to change) when we change the jobs , we can hold the PD . Again we have go thru the process get your i140 etc. in the mean time ,priority date comes and goes.( they can fix it , if they really want) dollars 💵 involved
4) one time eb3 priority dates move . Sometimes eb2 priority. This line jumping process there is fees involved it . Dollars 💵 involved
4) I don’t want to talk about diversity visa !
Bottom line , if they want to fix they can do it!
We should always talk about highly skilled . ( not dollars earning in that helps)
I am not worried whether I stay any country ! Just I had opportunity to work here I am working ! Ideally I don’t my next generation to suffer in immigration battle !
why don't you take your advice back to india ---create jobs,create opportunities for your people, make your country more attractive --stop trying to cheat!
My suggestion is that make Green cards available ONLY for any one who has a US advanced degree.
Thats not fair either. What about a degree from Europe/Japan if not India
Are you part of the last sect. Thats what i feel
You mean those people who now have greencard/citizenship and now exploit the situation? The video was getting too long so I did not elaborate. I was referring to those people who open companies (consulting companies) and hire H1Bs with the intention to take salary cuts. I have not opened any such company to hire anyone. I have never taken a single penny from anyone. I live with my own income. I have never abused anyone and extracted financial benefits by taking advantage of their GC situation. I have never filed for anyone's green card.
Sir I honestly feel that for H1b to stay relevant and navigate this never ending backlog situation, they should try and work on developing niche skills as much as they can. People with niche skills are always in demand in the labor market. Requesting for immigration rule change won’t help as you said.
One solution is to produce a kid in USA and wait until he/she is 21. I think a lot of people will get GCs this way
not really. The kid needs to turn 21 and then make enough money to support himself/herself and both the parents. There are income requirements too when filing for green cards for family members.
Easiest way is to go to Mexico and cross the border illegally!
Which country's get easy green card with in 1 to 2 years do any one have idea plzz reply. Country like..
it is based on country of birth. UK born can get a green card in 1-2 years. But an Indian born UK citizen will never get it.
@@DesiAmericanProfessor Sir in which Country Indian born Citizen can get Green card in usa with in 1-2 years
@@swaranreddy461 you did not understand his answer. Read it again. It is based on COUNTRY of BIRTH.
@@swaranreddy461 None. If you were born in India, there is a backlog irrespective of your citizenship, as that is how it works. Based on the country one is born in and not the citizenship they hold of whichever country they may be residing in.
Marry US citien, that's the fastest way to get GC
Same Casette again and again. He has gone brent rivera mode - Lack of content on this channel
the good news is that nobody is forced to watch my videos. People keep asking for this content so I make it once in a while. Roughly only one in ten videos is on immigration related topics. No more. I have a full time job, so I do not make much content. Also, I do not ask people to like, share, subscribe to my channel like most youtubers do.
It is like kuch toh log kahenge. I appreciate your valuable guidance on latest updates Dr. Sambhara. Pls continue to make many more such videos. Sharing is caring. @@DesiAmericanProfessor
I suggest one solution, which might be too far fetched, but still can help many Indians get Green Cards. Even if India is a large country, not people from every state in India immigrate equally. The numbers are much higher for states like Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. If the US government decides to put a cap of 7% for 'every state' in India (depending on the Indian state you were born/your domicile) instead of 7% for the entire India, it would be much more helpful to people from Indian states who immigrate much less than the rest of India, for example the northeast. Since I am from the northeast India myself, I will strongly advocate this, as there are very few people from places like Shillong and Guwahati, here in the US, let alone other places of the northeast.
from the perspective of USA, what state one belongs to is irrelevant. So this will never ever happen
Well what do you think about EB1 in genera?
I mean it also has a ton of backlog
Would love to hear your opinion on it
earlier PhDs with good publications used to apply. Not desis are abusing it where many non deserving are applying and choking this route as well
Do you think just because someone has PD of 2016, and want to qualify for eb1c as international manager, is it possible or is this idea still far fetched and has more scrutiny? My company has lot of such cases
@@DesiAmericanProfessor
If you’re talking about EB1C, then I understand your argument. But PHD or not, EB1A is an extremely high bar to clear. As an EB1A GC holder, without PHD, I absolutely do not agree with that statement. If you haven’t been through that journey and don’t understand USCIS policy manual or how the law around criteria is written, then it is a very ignorant statement to make.
Don’t get me wrong, I like your content, and I agree with your assessment on this topic.
With country caps, why not they make it as first come first serve for EB GCs. EB1C is nicely exploited by consulting companies. Also why not country cap on Illegal Immigrants? To maintain diversity, they have separate diversity categories. Rules needs to be modified along with time. Anyway it’s their country and there rules. Now talent is going where they have freedom and people are realizing the backlog. Time will change and then this country will realize. Nothing stays forever.
EB1A is abused by buying papers, citations, judging work and all. There are a lot of those things going on because its very subjective petition. Theres no need to habe PhD for EB1A
Sir from which Country it's easy to get Green Card that doesn't have Backlog of H1b like India. Plzz reply any one.
germany
nepal burma pakistan srilanka
Marry US citizen
Hello Sir
I am preparing for eb1a.
Will it be possible for you to provide recommendation letter for my application.
Do you know him? Or have you worked together on a paper? I don't think so since you are commenting here.
In a letter one needs to write how I know you. I refuse to write letters for my own students who were in my class but never interacted with me. Please reach out to people who know your work
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If America wants to remain competitive in the coming decades and maintain its edge, it should make radical changes to the immigrations system and get more skilled immigrants with advanced degrees in STEM fields. Currently, US gives a tiny fraction of green cards to people that are highly skilled, highly employable, and with advanced degrees. A vast majority of the green cards go to family-based categories. Most of them come to US as dependents and burden the welfare system here or engage in low-skill and low paying jobs. You can see the effects of the failed immigration policies already as US is losing its competitive advantage slowly. While US brings low skill immigrants, all those high skilled aspirants sitting in decades long backlog now can immigrate to other countries and help those countries grow.
Nonetheless, these effects are not immediate. Usually, it takes a decade or two or even a generation to really see the effects of good or bad policies. Hopefully, American law makers will show some forethought and mettle and refine their broken immigration system.
The US already has decent STEM graduates and their salaries has not gone up because of these H1b visas. The US should just stop issuing new visas for the next 10 years and work to clear the backlog
Feel free to move back to India, no one is forcing you to keep staying here
The blogger here has failed to include one other major trend with an even more powerful voice: people want Green Card employment quotas to be moved over to family based immigrants. The reason this demand is much more powerful than H1B people’s demands are because it is the US CITIZENS who are lobbying to bring their family members here and are once again stuck in a per country quota loop for siblings especially. So desi Indians must understand that UC Citizens of Indian origin’s first lobby power goes to pressure organizations that want the Congress to bring reforms to eliminate quotas for siblings and adult children migration. I am a US Citizen of Indian origin but I lobby mostly for family based immigration. So, be careful about who is doing what in the US before betting on a life in the US.
As the US slows down and turns increasingly protectionist, employment based immigration controls will only go up and not down. Why? As the vlogger mentions, US Citizens are getting affected and they are the voters. Expecting US now to be like in the early 2000s when it was liberal with immigration is asking for trouble. Once again lobbies such as Latino Americans have far greater lobbying power due to historical numbers and North American Free Trade Act than Indian Americans overall. So relying on Indian Americans to lobby for H1B-GreenCard changes is also fraught with risks. Indians are better off now running businesses, doing work in their own countries after getting some exposure to US work and business standards. But long term family life and money making in the US is no longer a viable option for Indians except the mavericks who want to succeed, come what may.
This professor has drunk a full bottle of "American Dream"...! He is very proud & Haughty about NRI Citizens & green card holders. After Dedollarization event predicted (2025-2029) his sasti Nasha would come down & he would come to his senses. Who knows he might come back to Bharath to give gaalis to America for being mugged & thugged by racist elements..! I will wait for that day .. so subscribing to his channel 😅
yes, I may return to my motherland. That said, I do not think you really watched the full video
@@DesiAmericanProfessor watched every minute word to word sir...I know you are a PHd holder & working as a professor there. But I do not know your status about Green Card. I am sorry to say: Wokisim is killing that country. You are soon going to face the consequences. My pointers: the day Japan & China start dumping US treasury reserves: the fall of the dollar will begin
@@DesiAmericanProfessor Follow up consequences are Arrival of a Commodity Pegged form of currency for international trade, BRICS are on it. The day oil producing counties start trading in other forms, the Global Economic Reset is evident. That day dollar might peak to 95Rs due to over printing. And there will be sudden collapse. 36 trillion dollar Debt is too big to handle. It's looking like everything is Scripted.
Nothing is guaranteed, and everything eventually comes to an end. Even the great Roman Empire did not last forever. So, it's important to enjoy life while it lasts, same could be said about American Dream.
indians after getting GC makes this kind of videos
This is to raise awareness among new immigrants. There are many vloggers on twitter and youtubers who do not have a green card and make/write content on the same issue expressing similar views.
Anyways US Government is not interested in legal immigration... Thanks for information.
*Promosm*
Stop crying
Living in United states from last 13 years and having US education still don't see any hope for Green Card soon :(
Did you came here legal way?? My family did…and we got our visa in a year!
Foolish assessment
right?
You are Not 100 percent correct. Im an example for coming here in 1990s and even back then it wasn't easy to get greencard faster. It took me 7 years for I140 approval alone.
Modi RSS BJP has made India very shining.
My humble advice to all Indians plz stay in Modis shining country and make it more Shine.
We dont need Indian Shine here. Thx.
I agree... On the part, those who already moved to the US... Should never return back... Including ther 2nd and 3rd generations...😊