Agreed. As an ex-immigrant to US who's gone through this process, credit where credit is due: Vance exactly described how this process looks like.
US needs a modern, merit-based immigration system. No lotteries of any kind, be it the de-facto lottery for H1B or actual Diversity lottery.
Thanks for sharing. It is interesting to see the perspective of people who have personal experience with the system criticising it.
Someone else above also mentioned wages being lower, someone else mentioned working overtime.
Wages are absolutely lower and they can do that because you cannot switch employers.
For example, the high street bank in my case sponsored H1B/L1B holders for Green Card strategically. I, as a Polish national, was not sponsored, because I would receive Green Card within 6-12 months. Meanwhile Indian colleagues were all sponsored, but they wouldn't receive Green Card for years, so they had all of us pretty much "enslaved" by taking advantage of cut-off dates. My wages (~110k) were about 50% of what I could realistically earn with my skillset at the time (2015-2020).
Indian staff had it worse, thanks to how the system works, they could work on their H1B while "waiting" for GC for a decade and still not be able to move employers. In my case, at least, my H1B would run course and I'd have to leave the country. I knew I wouldn't get mine withing first couple months, after my director literally came to my desk at one point after my GC request and asked if I would indeed receive it within 6-12 months. I never heard back on the subject since, despite my repeated requests.
I am a liberal and absolutely hate what Trump admin does to the world, but they're also absolutely right on how companies exploit the system and it definitely affects actual wages and employment opportunities for US citizens.
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