Re: Testing job applicants

["Stephen Warren" <swarren@www.wwwdotorg.org>]

steve <sjarboe@mattcomm.com> wrote in message
news:QE7E3.18732$Sb.34552@dfw-read.news.verio.net...
> Very true.  There were a number of H1B's at a previous company I was at.
> They tell me they need to stay at the same company for five years before
> they can apply for a green card, which is their main goal.  From
discussions
> with a few it seems most, if not all, simply are not at all interested
in
> rocking the boat or looking elsewhere until then.  They came to the U.S.
to
> work on a master's because that's how they can get here.  Then they will
> take any job to stay here, or go for a Phd if they can't get a job.

Erm. I know of people that started Green Card applications possibly even
less than 6 months after moving to the US on an H1B, and it certainly
isn't going to take 5 years to get it...

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