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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."
Just point at random people in line and shout "ter'ist!" Since, as we all know, Being Accused of Terrorism is now a class A felony. Department officials can simply pack 'em up to the nearest concentration... err immigration camps. And the lines get shorter, too!
The original intent of the H1-B program is still encoded into its operational law. It was originally intended for the sole purpose of importing unique talent that could ONLY be found outside the US, specifically, foreign language instructors. Since the USA has a miniscule talent pool of foreign language speakers and instructors, they MUST be imported from other countries.
I know many Japanese language instructors working on H1-B visas, since the new post-9/11 procedures were implemented, they have extreme difficulty renewing their visas every year, which makes it almost impossible for them to commit to jobs in universities, which are renewed annually. This is almost solely due to the visa program being clogged up with visa seekers who want to work at computer companies. Let me make this clear: there are NO jobs in the US IT industry that cannot be filled by Americans. IT talent can be educated and created in the US, unlike native speakers of foreign languages, which MUST be educated and created outside the US. Every H1-B visa granted to a foreign IT worker displaces a job that could be granted to an unemployed American IT worker. The demand by companies like Sun and Microsoft to increase H1-B workers for IT jobs is because they don't want to hire Americans at regular wages when they can get a foreigner to work at slave wages on an H1-B visa.