u/AlastairMac1964

This is huge, no? No more infinite renewals.

https://www.reddit.com/r/h1b/s/RLtu8Mwq9X

This is some b s

Number 1 AI women voice of india, AI expert or fake it until make it Elizabeth Holmes.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8shuyAgAAAAJ&hl=en

Look at her google scholar profile, few things stand out:

1. For a top AI expert, her papers are extremely low quality reviews/analyses published in low tier journals. Imagine someone like Arvind Srinivas ( almost same last name, I know) waiting behind her in eb1 queue due to the low standards of Biden admin and profile building influencers believing they are really top of the field.
2. Citations seem sketchy. There are so many random citations citing her for cloud computing and related stuff ( mostly from Asia in low tier journals)

Lot of her judging, work seems mediocre despite the prolific script reading in her videos. If this is the gold standard for the profile builders from India, what kind of the dog shit approvals happened in 2021-24. Anyone who brags about eb1a approved in those years are a huge red flag.

ADDING OTHER profile building scammers:

1. Raghu Reddy
2. Saiman shetty
3. Aditi paul
4. Nikin Tharan
5. Gaurav Mehta
6. Anyone who coaches eb1a or has eb1a recipient on LinkedIn/youtube

"Indian applicants in the US employment-based immigration queue could face another setback, with the State Department warning that EB-1 green card numbers may become temporarily unavailable before September 30, the end of the US fiscal year, due to high demand.

The warning comes as Indian applicants already face severe backlogs in other employment-based categories. The EB-2 category for India remains unavailable in the September Visa Bulletin, while EB-3 continues to have a long wait."

“Optional Practical Training Fees” — RIN 1653-AB01.

The broken F-1 → OPT → H-1B pipeline is finally getting looked at.

https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDetails?rrid=1505717

I'm not trying to sound racist, but something about the hiring on this team has been really really weird.

I'm on a 12-person engineering team, and I've been here for almost five years. During that time, every new engineer we've hired has come from the same country as my manager, and they've all required H-1B sponsorship. As far as I know, we've had good local candidates apply as well, but none of them have been hired.

If this had only happened once or twice, I probably wouldn't think much of it. But after seeing the same thing over several years, it's hard not to question it.

Also, this country most of my coworkers are from is known for having a demanding work culture so they all work ten-hour days and some people frequently come to work on Sundays. I try doing the same to fit in but my girlfriend thinks it’s super weird and even has accused me of cheating.

What should I do ?

I tried to move internally in Amazon US as a PM. I wanted to move to a managerial role to get EB1C as H1B lottery is evasive. I spent 5 years at Amazon in another country.

However, my next hiring manager (new to Amazon) told that he would collect feedback from current manager and I thought that he will only ask if I was on some focus plan (which makes me ineligible to switch). But my current manager gave negative feedback and the hiring manager decided not to take me.

After all this, my current manager decided to FOCUS me due to 'poor performance'(in his words). Later I came to know that every manager has a fixed firing quota/stack ranking and they generally fire employees who are unable to hide their plan about switching team.

Nobody shared these hidden processes with me. I had spent 5 years at Amazon in another country, but nobody told me about this.

Suppose if my flatmate was from Amazon, would he have told me about this?