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Executive Summary

H1-B lobbyists habitually exaggerate the skills that are obtained through the H1-B visa program.
The fact is the H1-B program brings in ordinary workers at lower rates rather than highly skilled resources.

Introduction
H1-B proponents and lobbyists exaggerate the uniqueness of the skills are generally hired through the H1-B program to justify the need for more H1-B visa workers.
The following quotation is evidence of this.
The vast majority covered by that minority of 73 LCAs would have only a Master’s degree, not a PhD, according to what I was told …

Executive Summary

Companies routinely state they need H1-Bs so they can access skills.
Their obsession with short term immediate, specific skills is what creates this fake shortage.

Introduction
Companies have become obsessed with hiring workers that meet the exact list of IT skills that are in their job requirement. This is true even though the hottest IT skills are always changing. They are also obsessed with not providing any training or time to learn new technologies.
This is explained in the following quotation.
Silicon Valley employment agent Andrew Gaynor stated that shortsighted employers who are insisting on a given …

Executive Summary

Companies want cheap labor and will make unsubstantiated claims about labor shortages to access it through H1-B and other foreign visa programs.
This article shows a quote from a specific test of this claimed shortage.

Introduction
The H1-B dependent company classification was designed to provide extra protection or standards for companies that passed a 15 percent threshold of their employees being H1-Bs.
The following quotation explains why this classification has been less helpful than one might initially think.
Further evidence against the industry claims of a labor shortage is seen in the employers’ very low …

Executive Summary

Lobbyists make repeatedly false claims around the STEM knowledge of US citizens to justify importing cheap labor that increases the margins of multinationals.
We see how these claims hold up to scrutiny.

Introduction
Multinational companies, immigration attorneys and H1-B visa holders have been lying about the actual standards that should apply for the H-1B program.
This is explained in the following quotation.
“Our own best and brightest are squeezed out of the market once they become expensive,” Ron Hira, Economic Policy Institute research associate and associate professor at Howard University has concluded. “The industry’s claim …

Executive Summary

One of the hallmarks of the H1-B program is false claims by those that financially benefit from H1-B visas.
Does the US become more innovative due to the H1-B visa program?

Introduction
Companies that bring in large numbers of H1-Bs often claim that it allows them to be more innovative. The evidence of innovation contradicts this claim.
U.S. dominance in technology has been due to our cultural flair for
innovation, good old Yankee ingenuity. Yet, as currently structured,
the H-1B work visa and employer-sponsored green-card programs are
bringing in workers …

Executive Summary

Those companies use the excuse of a skills shortage when they displace US workers with H1-B visa holders repeatedly state that they need to hire H1-Bs.
How true is this claimed skills shortage?

Introduction
This comment is made by Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University, who is commenting on the evidence for an IT skills shortage around the H1-B program.
Hira, who has been outspoken about abuses of the H-1B visa system, rebuffs the skills shortage theory. “If there was this terrible shortage, I’d think you’d see different …