US changing visa rules to attract the highly-skilled

A new rule is required to educate the idiots sitting at the port of entry and the fools denying the stamping of already approved H1B visas.

Jai US, Jai Indian IT Professionals, Jai Dollar , JAI HIND

God bless USA and Barak Obama

I think we should be working on improving the skills of our OWN people.

Its time for commentors to understand that Brain drain depends not only on the distant country, but also on the native country's government and economy. Any talented person would expect his hard work to be suitably recognized and rewarded wherever he is, failing which he would look out for better opportunity that pays him well. I feel that Brain drain is more in the hands of the native country than the distant place! The (Indian) government should take steps or offer incentives, if it considers this a serious matter.

Anywhere in the world Indians are good workers, but bad Managers. They just don't have the art to handle staff under their control.

One of the Pre requisites of Admission into an IIT / IIM Institute should be to serve the country atleast for a decade or 5 yrs. before going off to another countries after graduation. Howzzat???

India's congreaa psrty will have Dalits, Muslims and PBc/MBC to create stink

Superb :-)

I am a proffessional video grapher can i apply US visa sugest me.

Brain drain occurs because the native country does not respect brains...only corruption and reservations...Whoever is denied opportunites because of reservations, should immediately leave India for good. Let the subclass and less qualified doctors and engineers with lesser grades in their studies take care of everything in India, and let the qualified people leave out of frustration to countries like US for FAIR opportunities.

First of let's get something straight part of the problem is that people assume falsely that other nationalities are smarter than US citizens, if that were really the case then why are they coming here to work. It's because the jobs are here, the best college system is here not in there countries. Another problem is that US companies are so greedy that for years they have been going to other countries for cheaper labor and some countries were smart enough to take advantage of the US greed by educating there populous in certain areas to be able to take advantage.

When will US Gov/Biz get the hint that Tech Jobs won't come back to the US while they pay less than other vocations with similar learning requirements?

I know people with 4yr degrees from a top10 Engineering University who are struggling to get jobs or have jobs with lousy salaries. I know some who graduated engineering - but then immediately went back to school to exit the field before they even got their first job.

Engineering jobs in the US lack to major compensation components:

Salary and Respect.

These are society issues that until corrected, will stymie US Tech labor pools.

I think it is a political stunt, after announcing a strict rules in Visa sanction process to attract American citizens, now i think Obama is trying to attract the people and business who are unhappy with his previous announcements/actions.

Does this mean an option of OPT extension for non-STEM related degrees??

What about the US citizens and people living there??? What about there jobs ?? What about improving the education system?? What creating more jobs for citizens rather than changing visa law . I understand Indians are smarter and work for less $$ compared to us citizens but this is unfair to the people of USA

Does anyone know when would these rules come into effect?

anybody knows 17 month OPT extension for STEM students will addition of what we had before? 29month+ 17 ?

HOPEFULLY india also come forward to change the rules in giving visa to foreigners think our system in giving immigration to foreign workers highly corrupted

in the world every one should know an Indian can do any thing and Indian are every where in the world because of their talent not there by name sake.that's why each and every one like USA change there policies to attract the indians