Here is an interesting post from “Security Soapbox” that tackles the question of H1-B visas for foreign workers. Having been down the TN1/H1-B visa road I can safely say that I can speak to this subject from personal experience. What I enjoy here is the angle that is taken here on the visa question is not from the perennial “stealing US jobs” but rather, from one of security.
Again, let’s not look at whether these H1-B candidates take away jobs from US citizens, but let’s address security. All of the above checks can be run against a candidate from the United States, but how many of these things can you effectively check against, for example, someone from China? You can only get the employment history that their contracting agency gives you, and have to assume they’re not just making things up (really, do you trust them?). You also have absolutely no way of doing a criminal background check (save for InterPol, which if they show up on you’ve done something wrong), maybe you can ask them to submit for a drug test, but certainly they’ll have no verifiable credit history or extensive background check available.
Fair point. Hailing from Canada myself there were no surprises as Canada and the US share information rather liberally. But, what of a worker from country “X”? One that might not be warm to US in general as an example. How would you tackle this question as an employer?
Tags: H1-B Visas, TN1 Visas, H1-B Security,
