Short Cuts and More Short Cuts - Sad Story of US Immigration

The US EB1C Visa category offers tremendous shortcuts for Green card aspirants but its stated purpose was enabling the intra company movement of talented multifunctional managers to energize the US operations of these global companies
EB1C rules were framed to help companies move talent without onerous paperwork and procedures.

Sadly the USCIS did not use any lessons it learned over Decades vetting crafty foreign filers for pushing back shortsighted congressional programs; nor did the department of labor fulfill its obligations to protect the american worker from unjust competition and wage pressure.

Unfortunately, IT Body Shoppers from India attracted by the EBIC's lax requirements immediately saw it as a lifetime opportunity for 'pushing in'  low/medium skilled non managerial IT workers who previously would've struggled to even use the overbooked EB2/EB3 categories. 

By underpaying these workers companies such as COGNIZANT, TATA, INFOSYS, WIPRO, GENPACT  padded their bottom lines while displacing long term US workers.

Very soon a cottage industry of American Lawyers emerged to facilitate this fraud perpetrated by foreign IT Majors in the name of injecting 'elite foreign managerial talent' into the American Economy.


Sadly, the EB1C has allowed companies to completely circumvent the H1B Visa regime and its carefully crafted Wage and Requirements controls.


A direct outcome of this abuse Is

- Replacement of Departments such as Disney, Walgreen's, BestBuy, JPMC etc.

- Wage Control and Job Market Control by Companies such as Cognizant.

- Master Students from Ivy League as well as Genuine American Employees wait for 15-20 years or more while less skilled (EB1C) workers have gotten Green Cards within a year.

It is about time to request Congress and the Courts of this great Country to terminate or completely reform the EB1C program which grants much greater benefits than the H1B Visa without its systemic accountability and performance safeguards.