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shantanup

09-29 02:33 PM

By the next Presidential Election I will have mostly gotten my green card.I know I won't be eligible to vote then, but I will still be eligible to donate to the election campaigns.I have decided right now that whatever may happen I will donate to that party which makes my journey to the green card easier and faster.

I also have a plan B if I don't get my green card in next 24 months.I am a chemical engineer by education and profession with a US graduate degree in chemical engineering and more than 7 years of work experience in a premium organization in the oil, gas & chemicals industry.Everyone is more than aware how good the oil, gas & chemicals industry is doing worldwide.I very well know that I am a hot commodity in the job market in the wh*le world.Those who have traveled on Singapore Airlines must have seen advertisements in the Singapore airport displaying that oil and gas is their largest (next to Singapore Airlines) revenue making industry and they need qualified and experienced personnel.Job advertisements in the airport?Wow!Think why Alberta is the hottest place these days.I got an invitation from Canadian Government to apply for Canadian green card, citing my occupation.Australian Government has declared Chemical Engineering as the occupation with the highest demand in Australia due to their conventional mining and metals business and now the newly found gas reserves in north and west parts of that continent.This is my plan B.I have already secured an Australian Permanent Residency and that too in 6 months time.Hats off to the highly efficient immigration department of the Australian Government.In addition I already have 3 job offers there - one each in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

I have 2 burning innovative ideas in my mind - one related to biogas and carbon credits and the other related to water desalination.I have kept both of them on hold right now until I get the US green card.I know I will work on them but not sure which country gets the benefit - USA or Australia.

Then why am I sticking around here in the US?1.I have a US graduate degree, 2.Both my daughters are born here and are US citizens and 3.I can't deny that I have started to put down my roots here.24 more months and will not hesitate to quit USA and settle in Australia.It will be tough, but can't help it being forced to do it.

P.S.Two of my friends with similar background as mine, have left for Australia for good in August this year.They have settled in Sydney.Another acquaintance with occupation related to oil & gas, has migrated to Perth.

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psam

07-13 05:57 PM

I have seen these arguments too many times.I have seen STEM vs non-STEM argue over fairness.Maths vs MBA.Now its EB-3 vs EB-2.
At a high level, we all are for skill based legal immigration.Lets work towards that broader goal.

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sanju

05-16 11:26 PM

Looks like, the letter sent out to India based business houses by the US senators has surprised the Commerce minister of India, Kamalnath.He is going take this up with US in the global trade meet at Brussels.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kamal_Nath_surprised_on_H1-B_visa_issue/articleshow/2055323.cms

Kamalnath will do us all and the 9 companies a great service by staying out of this debate.He has already contributed by making "ignorant" statements like 'H-1B is a outsource visa".This guy has no clue about the issue at hand and he simply talks in broad strokes.If he jumps into the debate, that could be the last straw to break the camel's back.We will all be better off without him.

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Madhuri

05-16 08:27 PM

Who knows what bills congress is going pa*s and not .I would rather live with status quo rather than things getting worse for me .They dont even let me file for 485 because of per country limits etc.....
I second that.I don't want to find myself in biggermess after all this is over.

I am talking about people whose permanent labors are approved but they can not get green card for whateever reason.My labor application for future job was applied 3 yeags ago in the past As per my employer job was available 3 years ago and government took its own time to adjudicate the application.Does my last statement sound illogical?Your analysis is same , I mean illogical .

Who knows what bills congress is going pa*s and not .I would rather live with status quo rather than things getting worse for me .They dont even let me file for 485 because of per country limits etc...

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Des vs.Pardes

1.Mother-in law:
In Des - A women capable of making your life miserable.
In Pardes - A women you never fight with, because where else you will find such a dedicated baby sitter for free?

2.Husband:
In Des - A boring human species, who listens more to his mother than you, and orders you around to serve him, his parents and siblings.
In Pardes - Still boring, but now a useful human species that comes in handy when the house needs to be vacuumed.

3.Friend:
In Des - A person whose house you can drop into any time of the day or night and you'll always be welcome.
In Pardes - A person who you have to call first to check and make sure he is not busy.

4.Wife:
In Des - A woman who gives you your underwear and towel when you go to take a shower.
In Pardes - A woman who yells at you not to leave tub dirty when you go to take bath.

5.Son:
In Des - A teenager, who without asking will carry your grocery bags from the market.
In Pardes - A teenager, who suddenly remembers he has lot of homework when you start mowing the lawn.

6.Daughter:
In Des - A lovely doll, who brings tears to your eyes when her doli is about to leave.
In Pardes - A lovely doll, who brings you to tears long before any doli time.

8.Father:
In Des - A person you are afraid of, and who is never to be disobeyed.
In Pardes - A person to whom you pretend to obey, after all he is the one paying your college tuition.

9.Desi Engineer:
In Des - A person with a respectable job and lots of upper ki kamai.:D
In Pardes - A person without a secure job, who always dreams one day he will be rich.

10.Desi Doctor:
In Des - A respectable person with ok income.
In Pardes - A money making machine, who has a money spending machine at home called "doctor ki biwi".

11.Bhangra:
In Des - A vigorous punjabi festival dance.
In Pardes - A desi dance you do, when you don't know how to dance.

12.Software Engineer:
In Des - A high-tech guy, :D, always anxious to queue consulate visa line.
In Pardes - The same hitech guy, who does Ganapati puja everyday, and says 'This is my last year in the US (or wherever)' every year.

13.A Green Card holder bachelor:
In Des - the guy can't speak Hindi, parents of good looking girls are dying to hook him, wears jacket in summer, says he has a BMW back there.
In Pardes - the guy can't speak English, wears jacket all the time, works in a Candy store at Manhatta n, dreams of owning a BMW.

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apt7

05-16 12:04 AM

What will happen to the hundereds and thousands of consultants working in firms like Mircosoft, IBM, JP Morgan, Oracle etc and all the other big and small firms?I bet there will be no more BAUs (business as usual) in the all those companies..

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alisa

12-30 01:48 AM

I think I agree with quite a lot of what you say.But I think there is some truth in Pakistani fears that India is already supporting anti-state actors in Pakistan, like in Balochistan.

India is not yet spending its resources, and we all want India to spend substantial budget, say over $50 billion an year, to destabilize & disintegrate Pakistan.

I don't think we all want that.
I don't think even all Indians want that.
I don't think its in the interest of India, or anyone else for that matter, to have a huge Afghanistan on its Eastern border.

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WIPRO LTD.3,143
INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.3,125
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.2,754
SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD.1,753
MICROSOFT CORP.1,297
PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC.969
COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS U.S.863
I-FLEX SOLUTIONS INC.695
HCL AMERICA INC.652
LARSEN & TOUBRO INFOTECH LTD.624
TECH MAHINDRA AMERICAS INC.614
INTEL CORP.613
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP 545
ACCENTURE LLP 519
POLARIS SOFTWARE LAB INDIA LTD.497
MPHASIS CORP.445
SYNTEL CONSULTING INC.415
ERNST & YOUNG LLP 396
LANCESOFT INC.394

Other 88,070 (80.3 percent)
TOTAL 109,614 (0.07 % of U.S.labor force)
Source: USCIS
Explanatory note from USCIS: Employers were identified and counted on the basis of tax ID.
The number of approved petitions for new workers is not identical with the number of workers on the job because

workers are occasionally sponsored by more than one employer,
the job offer may subsequently be withdrawn,
the job offer may be declined, or
the worker if residing outside the country, may be denied a visa.

The total of 109,614 exceeds 65,000 regular plus 20,000 masters caps because it includes petitions for new workers exempted from the caps.
Fiscal year of petition approval often is earlier than fiscal year of worker start date.For example, about 50,000 H-1B petitions were approved in FY 2006 for a start date in FY 2007.The reason is that many petitions were filed in April beginning of cap season) and May by sponsors for workers beginning their employment in October---two different fiscal years.
The same phenomenon occurred this year, offsetting last year's effect to an unknown extent, but rendering straight comparisons between petition approvals and employment starts in a fiscal year subject to error and misinterpretation.
The CIA Fact Book estimates the size of the U.S.labor force in 2006 at 151.4 million.
The list in the table is for individuals who were hired on an approved H-1B petition for «initial employment» in 2006.Petitions approved for «continuing employment» would include both H-1B renewals by that same employer and individuals who had been working on H-1B status for another employer.

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Critics charge that «most» H-1B visas are used by companies that engage in «outsourcing.» The 10 companies cited in these reports are Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Patni Computer Systems, Mphasis, HCL America, Deloitte & Touche, Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and Satyam Computer Services.

WIPRO LTD.3,143
INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.3,125
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.2,754
SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD.1,753
PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC.969
COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS U.S.863
HCL AMERICA INC.652
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP 545
ACCENTURE LLP 519
MPHASIS CORP.445

Total 14,768
The 10 companies cited most by critics used less than 14 percent of new H-1B petitions approved in 2006 for initial employment (new hires who were not in H-1B status for a prior employer), according to USCIS.
The new H-1B professionals hired in 2006 by these global companies totaled fewer than 15,000, representing less than 4 percent of the approximately 440,000 people employed by these 10 companies worldwide.

It would be difficult to claim such a small number and proportion of employees are leading to the loss of a large number of American jobs, particularly within the context of a U.S.economy producing employment for over 145 million people.In fact, it is not clear it is leading to the loss of any American jobs.
The vast majority of H-1B visas go to U.S.high tech companies, financial institutions and U.S.universities.
Senators Gra*sley and Durbin wrote a letter to the companies on this list with headquarters in India.

Crackdown on Indian Outsourcing Firms (http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2007/db20070515_218119.htm?chan=search) Two senators are probing how Indian outsourcing firms use U.S.work visas, with an eye on new restrictions by Peter Elstrom | Business Week, May 15, 2007
Lawmakers ask foreign firms for work visa data (http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=63251&ostcount=896) By Donna Smith, Reuters, Monday, May 14, 2007
Senators questioning tech company use of H1-B visa program (http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=63122&ostcount=892) By Suzanne Gamboa | Associated Press, 05/14/2007

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damialok

03-26 01:43 PM

I agree that credit crunch is worst we have ever seen and the worst is still about 9-12 months away.A lot of investment banks are going to be in trouble.I work for a big financial services comp and even though they say they are not affected, I know that their 'high-yeild low-risk' funds lost around $30billion.Who pays for this?investors?hmm China/Japan..maybe.But Ben Bernanke is keen on doing whatever it takes to jumstart the economy.So he is printing dollars and reducing interest rates to historic lows(considering 60 year cycles).When I bought my first home in 2001, the rate was 8.5%.Whats it now 5.5%?
So my view is that inflation is a bigger problem that Ben B does not want to tackle in the near future(3-4 months).Well in times of inflation your savings/investment is better in real-estate than anything else.But definitely NOT cash.

So although we might be near the bottom of real estate market, we can never guesstimate the bottom until it has pa*sed.My advice is, negotiate hard(buyers market) and get into a deal now.As a safety net, you can ask for a long escrow(around 180 days).That way you can backout of the deal if things head south.You've only lost the deposit(subject to arbitration at least in California).

Someone pointed out that Visa Status is a smaller issue, the big issue is if you can hold onto your investment for atleast 5 years, you are golden.

I believe that having a job(well paid) in recession is an investors dream as everything is on SALE.

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suavesandeep

06-23 10:49 PM

Ask current underwater home owners how much pleasure are they deriving from their owned home.Day to day pleasure of living may come from the size and the quality/amenities of the house you stay in, whether you own it or rent it is immaterial.If you can rent the same house for 50% of your monthly mortgage and on top of it never have to worry about declining home prices why would you be more happy owning it?Plus "owned" house is a little bit of misnomer here.Unless you have paid it off 100% it's not really your own.Rental property is owned by landlords and your "owned" home is in reality owned by your bank.Miss couple of payments and net results are very similar.

Don't get me wrong.In rational market owning home is the easiest way to build up wealth but I can't stress the "rational" part of it enough.Although in most areas the excesses of housing bubble are washed away by now in some areas (like good school districts in Bay Area) the prices are still not aligned with the fundamentals like rents for similar properties and average annual incomes.Also renting has one huge advantage right now in this era of rapidly rising unemployment.You are mobile.You can easily move wherever you can find your next job.

In long run it is always better (IMHO) to own than to rent.But in the short term - for next 1-2 years - I see no compelling argument to buy home unless you land a steal somehow.Sentimental red herrings like "pride and joy" of ownership is definitely not a way to go about making the biggest financial decision of your life.The fact that realtors use this exact phase so often should give you a clue!
I completely agree with you..I seriously dont understand what pride/ownership people feel by making 5% or best case 20% downpayment, Where the bank owns most of the house.It only truly yours when you have fully paid for it.To cite comparisons to our parents is plain foolish.Most of our parents bought their first homes by outright paying for it and having the home in their own name and not any BANK.Dont get me wrong, Not that i am pro renting and against home buying.I hope to have a bank financed home like everybody else in the near future.But i seriously would not feel any pride of ownership without actually owning it in the real sense.I fully own both my cars and feel proud about them :).

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