This is a pretty good journey through the mess that is the H1-B and Green Card process in the US, which is heavily used by the tech industry.
The article focuses on PERM listings, which are ads for positions *that you have already filled* with H1-B visa holders, so that you can apply for employment-based green cards for the same people.
I must admit that I’m a beneficiary of said system: I got an H1-B, got an employer to advertise the same position I already held for PERM compliance, got my green card, and successfully applied for US citizenship in a process that took more than a decade. But there is no denying that the system is perverse and broken, and doesn’t do anything close to what it purports to do. There are also corner cases that workers fall into where they are either deported or become essentially indentured workers to a company as long as they want to stay in the US.
#immigration #H1B #visa
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment