Although not ideal and in need of reform, we kind of already have some stuff in place.

There are three categories of H1B - EB1, EB2, and EB3.

EB1 is primarily for the STEM-based PhD graduates - typically from an American university, or someone supposedly exhibiting extraordinary talent in their field (there’s a list of guidelines). This category allows the fewest visas.

EB2: master’s grads from American universities, again, primarily from STEM fields. Last I checked the USA allows a max of 20k per year.

EB3: The largest amount of visas handed out each year, and typically the hardest to get due to the competition. My understanding is this is where most of the corruption and corporate sleaziness occurs.

While at the time I thought the H1B system was unfair, and I now see it has serious problems, I do like it or something like it for this one reason:

• it can take years to get a degree from an American school, then a year or two on a temp work visa while waiting to have your name randomly chosen from the H1B category you selected (random lottery due to more applications than visas issued each year). Then another 3-10 years on your H1B while waiting to get a greencard. Then more time on greencard before you can become a citizen. From my experience, all those many years waiting through that system often changes a person from a foreigner to a Patriot. Not all, but I’ve seen hundreds go through this process and become very loyal to America because of the drawn out process and all the sacrifices one has to make along the way. It’s not great that one is tied to a single employer for several years and can get effed around by them (possibly lower salary but that’s not always the case), but if you want to be part of the freest country in the world, it’s worth the sacrifice.

Although not ideal and in need of reform, we kind of already have some stuff in place.

There are three categories of H1B - EB1, EB2, and EB3.

EB1 is primarily for the STEM-based PhD graduates - typically from an American university, or someone supposedly exhibiting extraordinary talent in their field (there’s a list of guidelines). This category allows the fewest visas.

EB2: master’s grads from American universities, again, primarily from STEM fields. Last I checked the USA allows a max of 20k per year.

EB3: The largest amount of visas handed out each year, and typically the hardest to get due to the competition. My understanding is this is where most of the corruption and corporate sleaziness occurs.

While at the time I thought the H1B system was unfair, and I now see it has serious problems, I do like it or something like it for this one reason:

• it can take years to get a degree from an American school, then a year or two on a temp work visa while waiting to have your name randomly chosen from the H1B you selected (due to more demand than visas issued each year). Then another 3-10 years on your H1B while waiting to get a greencard. Then more time on greencard before you can become a citizen. From my experience, all those many years waiting through that system often changes a person from a foreigner to a Patriot. Not all, but I’ve seen hundreds go through this process and become very loyal to America because of the drawn out process and all the sacrifices one has to make along the way. It’s not great that one is tied to an employer for several years and can get effed around by them, but if you want to be part of the freest country in the world, it’s worth the sacrifice.