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cptskippy
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> they move off of H-1B into green cards after a few years
In theory, not in practice.
petilon
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In practice if they can't or decided not to apply for a green card they leave after 6 years.
klipt
on Aug 19, 2019
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Well if you're from India you can
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but the green card backlog for India is ~80 years so you're still going to be on H1-B for a long time.
cptskippy
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I didn't realize it was that long, it really is indentured servitude at this point.
thatfrenchguy
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We could just fix that by having employees apply for green cards instead of the company sponsoring them.
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In theory, not in practice.