Breaking the Visa Backlog

bart_scriv writes "As anyone who has dealt with H1-B visas can attest, the process can be a nightmare of long lines, waits and inexplicable delays. In this interview, the State Department's Tony Edson discusses what's being done to speed up and expedite the process, ranging from procedural changes to the use of new technology."

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Re:Here comes the chorus

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Yeah, and the Japanese don't know how to manufacture anything that isn't junk, as we all knew back in the 1960s. OK, maybe they could make decent, cheap pocket transistor radio, but not big things like cars.

They still can't- which is why my Izuzu pickup died after less than 8 years, where my 7 year old Ford Escort still gets 50 MPG.

This is completely wrong. They send people here to make money because we live in a place where labor is dear and they live in a place where labor is cheap. The problem is that they are starting to look for work at home, because home can no compete with the US.

Let it. It's in our best interest to compete with countries that we can destroy militarily on a whim.

Furthermore, no innovator is an island. You need a people (skilled) to turn an innovation into a business.

I'd argue that if you need skilled people to turn an innovation into a business, then you don't deserve to be in business- you're not an innovator, you're a parasite.

Which is the point: you keep the skilled positions here.

Yeah, right- except for you're not, you're replacing all the skilled people with H-1b indentured servants, insuring that no American will ever be able to afford to pay for the training to become skilled.

you need infrastructure: banking, marketing and dsitribution, research institutions, venture capital etc.

Two of those 5 are infrastructure, the other three are unneeded parasites that will cause your project to fail if it is not profitable within 4 months. I wonder if you know which is which.

If the state of these things in the 1970s US was on a par with 1970s India, you wouldn't have had a computer industry develop here, no matter how many geniuses we had.

Except, at least three of those geniuses used NO venture capital, no marketing, and no banks.