My armchair take: Don’t tie the visa to the employer.
You come in, you get a visa for N years, you can immediately quit and it doesn’t affect the visa.
If you had some amazing skill that we needed to import, someone else will want to employ you at the market rate. (If the skill is so amazing/rare, the original employer will be treating the employee like a princess anyway, so why would they leave?)
If you really want, require the original employer to subsidize any unemployment benefits until new employment as a risk to carry and a way to discourage unnecessary use of the visa. ie, make it more expensive than local talent.
Heck that last part might even be a separate solution: tax the crap out of having an H1-B employee to “nominally” cover the govt cost/risk so they cost more than local talent. Suddenly, the only reason to use the visa is for skills you actually can’t find locally.
this. the need is for the skills in the country. they should request a visa should be given to someone with the skills and once they are here its up to them to convince them to work for them rather than someone else. Companies should be limited in requests so they better make those deals sweet.
My armchair take: Don’t tie the visa to the employer.
You come in, you get a visa for N years, you can immediately quit and it doesn’t affect the visa.
If you had some amazing skill that we needed to import, someone else will want to employ you at the market rate. (If the skill is so amazing/rare, the original employer will be treating the employee like a princess anyway, so why would they leave?)
If you really want, require the original employer to subsidize any unemployment benefits until new employment as a risk to carry and a way to discourage unnecessary use of the visa. ie, make it more expensive than local talent.
Heck that last part might even be a separate solution: tax the crap out of having an H1-B employee to “nominally” cover the govt cost/risk so they cost more than local talent. Suddenly, the only reason to use the visa is for skills you actually can’t find locally.
this. the need is for the skills in the country. they should request a visa should be given to someone with the skills and once they are here its up to them to convince them to work for them rather than someone else. Companies should be limited in requests so they better make those deals sweet.