Reply #19: Both my wife and I are on H1B visas. [View All]

[mutus_frutex]

Let me say first that our situations are a bit different since we are in academia, so our salaries are already lower than what's paid in industry.

That said, I find these threads really startling. I truly didn't expect them in a liberal forum, to me they sound extremely reactionary (even xenophobic, as pointed out by another poster).

I also find it strange that I'm being accused (in a roundabout way) of stealing jobs form americans when every time my visa needs to be renewed, a posting goes up offering my position to any American with the appropriate skills. Let me also say that my salary is not determined by the fact that I have an H1B visa but by my experience. An American with my experience would get my salary.

Personally, I would be very happy to do my job in my home country if I were able to have the same salary I have here. What the heck, with half my salary I'd live like a king. It would also be great for my country because it invests a lot of money in education and many have to leave because of lack of opportunities. That lack of opportunities is very much related to the hegemony that the US has enforced for half a century (and that many people in these forums decries). Therefore, I find it somewhat bemusing when so-called liberals bitch about the end of such hegemony.

Yes, I wish MS would move to Asia. And to South America (my country would really provide a great spot for the new MS campus).

I just wonder if the people that bitch about the H1B's understand that they are essentially allied with the religious right that is pushing most of biomedical research out of the US.