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Need a Job? Move to India
WhoDaresWins writes "As U.S. jobs move abroad, more Americans are willing to work overseas like in India as per a CNN.com story. The story talks about many Americans and also Indians who are American citizens moving to India for work. This story should be an eye opener to people who feel Americans cannot work in India. With a booming economy there is a need for skilled professionals with years of experience in a western enconomy and industry. Best of all, job listings are available online." Thomas Friedman has a piece called The secret to India's success.
You could just stay at home and earn Indian wages
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Its not that simple to get a visa to India
It works both ways. Its not simple to get a visa to get here too. A guy who sits next to me and has come here from China has a lot of interesting stories to tell about the hoops that you have to jump/go through to get the visa.
Without a visa you can't get hired.
You got it exactly the opposite way. You cannot get a visa if you are not hired. (Unless of course you want a visiting visa that would not allow you to work). For someone to start working in US, the first thing that they would need is for an employer to approve the hire part. You go about applying for the visa after you have the proof that you are eligible to work in the country.
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Fair trade is about opportunity, not privilege. The original OP had complaints about "less pay". That makes as much sense as an Indian middle-class worker complaining about living below the poverty line ($14000)
FUD. No country in the world will allow people to just stroll jauntily in like they are visiting Mom. Do you think it is any different for the US? Try getting a visa to the US telling the consular officer that you want to emigrate and see just how fast you are laughed out of the office. You need to show a purpose to move to any country - and emigration is just not good enough for any country.
The H1B work cvisa is just that - a work visa. You *need* to have a *job* before the *employer* applies for a H1B on your behalf. Learn how the system works before digging up crap on the Net.
I believe it was the other way around - without being hired, you can't get a visa.
That's right (you can get a tourist visa but can't work on it), and it's the same in every other country I know of including the US. Just recently I heard of a German (a senior 70-year-old professor from a well-known university) who did not realise he needed a work visa for a short (under 3 month) teaching stint, and tried to enter under the visa waiver programme showing his invitation papers; he was arrested, kept in night for a jail and deported. Now that's barbaric. Ironically if he hadn't shown the papers they'd probably have let him in, it's just that his hosts couldn't have paid him then.