Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa said the US should absolutely end the H-1B visa program as it is doing more harm than good to both the US and India. Wadhwa said the visa program once played an important role in making America the world leader in technology and innovation but now the system is badly corrupted. Wadhwa put out a lengthy post on X explaining why he turned against the visa program.
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"Unethical body shops learned to game it. Green-card backlogs stretched from years into decades, leaving talented immigrants trapped in immigration limbo and effectively tied to employers because changing jobs could jeopardize everything they had waited years for," Wadhwa posted. The post came weeks after Wadhwa told podcaster Mark Halperin that around 25% of H-1B visa holders come to the US with fake degrees because they are hired by "bodyshops" that inflate the CVs of these candidates.
Bodyshops in tech parlance refer to staffing companies that recruit foreign people on behalf of tech companies and manage their payrolls. "Unethical body shops learned to game it. Green-card backlogs stretched from years into decades, leaving talented immigrants trapped in immigration limbo and effectively tied to employers because changing jobs could jeopardize everything they had waited years for," Wadhwa said.
