Source: "A question of fraud - Silicon Valley pushes for more foreign workers despite federal probes" By David Lazarus - The San Francisco Chronicle (September 21, 2000):
www.usbc.org/info/jobs/0900probes.htm
""FAKE CREDENTIALS
One of the most common forms of H-1B fraud involves falsification of academic and work credentials. A bachelor's degree (or its vocational equivalent) is required for H-1B status, as well as proof of specific work skills.
Some Indians have reported that overseas recruiters will charge workers as much as $6,000 to improve their visa chances. In return, relatively unskilled workers will receive a month or two of computer training along with paperwork attesting to far more extensive work experience.
Diplomas from existing or even nonexistent universities also can be arranged.
'It's a well-known fact that people in India will take two or three classes in Java programming, then the body shop will create a resume for them,' said Inder Singh, a former H-1B visa holder now working as a programmer on the East Coast.
'You will find that a lot of them don't have the work experience they claim to have,' he said. 'The body shop does it for them. They are very good at glossing over resumes.'
...Yates told legislators that a subsequent immigration service investigation revealed that 21 percent of vocational resumes submitted by visa applicants were fictitious and 29 percent more 'were either probably or possibly fraudulent.' ""
What does that say about the products being "designed" by these people?
"INDIANS JUBILANT AS US HOUSE CLEARS H1-B VISA BILL" By Ashish Kumar Sen San Francisco, Oct. 5
http://isn.unices.org/news/20001006153311.html
"" Till Monday, Vivek Nair, a San Jose-based software programmer, wasn't sure how much longer he would be staying in the United States of America. For him, time was running out. His six-year H-1B visa had entered its final weeks.
Two days later he gushed: 'I'm proud to be an American!'
The source of Mr Nair's pride was the Senate's unanimous decision to approve an increase in the number of H-1B visas that can be issued annually by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the next three years...""
Nair's statement is an insult! It's time to WAKE UP AMERICA! H-1B's HERE ON TEMPORARY VISAS ARE NOT AMERICAN CITIZENS!
"How and Why Government, Universities and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages: An Introduction to the Real NSF 'Shortage' Study" By Eric Weinstein, located at:
"Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies. That is not to say that they don't exist. They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage mechanism..."
In: CIO Magazine - August 1, 2000
Opinion Sound Off - Taking Sides on Critical Issues
"MORE H1-B VISAS; FEWER PROBLEMS?" BY MARTHA HELLER located at:
www.cio.com/archive/080100_soundoff_content.html
Shelley Morrisette, senior vice president and director of research at Darwin Partners, an IT workforce solutions company, said:
""...'Changing immigration policy will not work,' argues Morrisette. 'Technology is constantly changing and accelerating, creating obsolete IS workers daily. The real issue facing the high-tech industry is how to effectively and continually retrain and use obsolete workers.'
According to Morrisette, the whole staffing crisis - and the notion that throwing more visas at the problem will solve it -- is a red herring launched by the high-tech industry to put downward pressure on IT salaries. More bodies may increase the pool of candidates, and many of those bodies may come cheap, says Morrisette, but CIOs who chase down H1-B visa workers are wasting their time. Their energies would be better spent retooling their human resource strategies for the new economy.
An obsolete worker is an obsolete worker, and 10 are no better than one. Regardless of the number of H1-B visas available, says Morrisette, companies that implement effective retraining programs, pay a premium for highly skilled talent and ignore the doomsday laments of staffing crisis propagandists will successfully manage their own staffing situation. Companies that expect a larger and cheaper labor pool to solve their staffing woes for them will be the first to go.""
I wonder what excuses the "first to go" will offer as they go out of business...
Visit the H-1B Hall of Shame located at:
www.zazona.com/shameh1b/
And the "Age Issues" forum on Monster.com located at:
Slashdot Mirror
Source: "A question of fraud - Silicon Valley pushes for more foreign workers despite federal probes" By David Lazarus - The San Francisco Chronicle (September 21, 2000):
www.usbc.org/info/jobs/0900probes.htm
""FAKE CREDENTIALS
One of the most common forms of H-1B fraud involves falsification of academic and work credentials. A bachelor's degree (or its vocational equivalent) is required for H-1B status, as well as proof of specific work skills.
Some Indians have reported that overseas recruiters will charge workers as much as $6,000 to improve their visa chances. In return, relatively unskilled workers will receive a month or two of computer training along with paperwork attesting to far more extensive work experience.
Diplomas from existing or even nonexistent universities also can be arranged.
'It's a well-known fact that people in India will take two or three classes in Java programming, then the body shop will create a resume for them,' said Inder Singh, a former H-1B visa holder now working as a programmer on the East Coast.
'You will find that a lot of them don't have the work experience they claim to have,' he said. 'The body shop does it for them. They are very good at glossing over resumes.'
...Yates told legislators that a subsequent immigration service investigation revealed that 21 percent of vocational resumes submitted by visa applicants were fictitious and 29 percent more 'were either probably or possibly fraudulent.' ""
What does that say about the products being "designed" by these people?
And this was supposed to be temporary...
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"INDIANS JUBILANT AS US HOUSE CLEARS H1-B VISA BILL" By Ashish Kumar Sen San Francisco, Oct. 5
http://isn.unices.org/news/20001006153311.html
"" Till Monday, Vivek Nair, a San Jose-based software programmer, wasn't sure how much longer he would be staying in the United States of America. For him, time was running out. His six-year H-1B visa had entered its final weeks.
Two days later he gushed: 'I'm proud to be an American!'
The source of Mr Nair's pride was the Senate's unanimous decision to approve an increase in the number of H-1B visas that can be issued annually by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the next three years...""
Nair's statement is an insult! It's time to WAKE UP AMERICA! H-1B's HERE ON TEMPORARY VISAS ARE NOT AMERICAN CITIZENS!
http://forums.monster.com/viewmessage.asp?messa
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"How and Why Government, Universities and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages: An Introduction to the Real NSF 'Shortage' Study" By Eric Weinstein, located at:
www.zazona.com/shameh1b/Library/Archives/Weinst
The introduction states:
"Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies. That is not to say that they don't exist. They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage mechanism..."
In: CIO Magazine - August 1, 2000
Opinion Sound Off - Taking Sides on Critical Issues
"MORE H1-B VISAS; FEWER PROBLEMS?" BY MARTHA HELLER located at:
www.cio.com/archive/080100_soundoff_content.htm
Shelley Morrisette, senior vice president and director of research at Darwin Partners, an IT workforce solutions company, said:
""...'Changing immigration policy will not work,' argues Morrisette. 'Technology is constantly changing and accelerating, creating obsolete IS workers daily. The real issue facing the high-tech industry is how to effectively and continually retrain and use obsolete workers.'
According to Morrisette, the whole staffing crisis - and the notion that throwing more visas at the problem will solve it -- is a red herring launched by the high-tech industry to put downward pressure on IT salaries. More bodies may increase the pool of candidates, and many of those bodies may come cheap, says Morrisette, but CIOs who chase down H1-B visa workers are wasting their time. Their energies would be better spent retooling their human resource strategies for the new economy.
An obsolete worker is an obsolete worker, and 10 are no better than one. Regardless of the number of H1-B visas available, says Morrisette, companies that implement effective retraining programs, pay a premium for highly skilled talent and ignore the doomsday laments of staffing crisis propagandists will successfully manage their own staffing situation. Companies that expect a larger and cheaper labor pool to solve their staffing woes for them will be the first to go.""
I wonder what excuses the "first to go" will offer as they go out of business...
Visit the H-1B Hall of Shame located at:
www.zazona.com/shameh1b/
And the "Age Issues" forum on Monster.com located at:
http://forums.monster.com/forum.asp?forum=127