will you support Greencard quota for Masters degree holders

[waitingnwaiting]

Should there not be a separate Green card quota for anyone with a USA Masters Degree in any field?

If USA does that, more people will pay to come to study in USA. Not go to Australia, UK etc to study. So more money to USA. And USA degree holders will be able to use this education and work in USA to improve USA economy. If they go back to their countries, then USA has brain drain.

If they have separate quota for H1, separate H1B quota for Masters Degrees, what is wrong to have one for Green Card?

Please support on this thread if you agree.

[sys_manus]

If the masters degree is from tier 1 or 2 schools I support else NO!

[goel_ar]

+ straight As only ?

why - only tier1 & tier2 ? should be based salary withdrawn- isn't?

Originally Posted by sys_manus

If the masters degree is from tier 1 or 2 schools I support else NO!

[sam_hoosier]

There should be a separate quota for Master's degree holders with existing jobs in their field of study. That would weed out people joining random schools for a Master's degree just to be part of that quota.

[dassumi]

And they should serve at least one year in the Military. :-)

Originally Posted by goel_ar

+ straight As only ?

why - only tier1 & tier2 ? should be based salary withdrawn- isn't?

[pd052009]

Originally Posted by goel_ar

+ straight As only ?

why - only tier1 & tier2 ? should be based salary withdrawn- isn't?

GC quota should be based on skillset(1,2,3), not solely based on salary.(remeber, we are talking about future salary here).

Originally Posted by sam_hoosier

There should be a separate quota for Master's degree holders with existing jobs in their field of study. That would weed out people joining random schools for a Master's degree just to be part of that quota.

They should work atleast for 3Yrs(1st H1B duration) after OPT, in their field to qualify for the new quota. If they change the field during this time, they have to come and join our line.

[ndbhatt]

I think ppl who have masters or above from accredited US university shouldn't have any visa restriction; meaning they shouldn't be counted towards their country quota. No cap for Masters from US University -

P.S. I don't have masters from US.

bhattji

[goel_ar]

[quote=pd052009;2116961]GC quota should be based on skillset(1,2,3), not solely based on salary.(remeber, we are talking about future salary here).


we do have it : EB1/EB2/EB3. See EB1 is exploited by 'lot of' people (due to legal loophole) -these people have 4-5 yrs. total work-exp. & get half the salaries & are only 50% useful to US economy than tons of people stuck in eb2 & eb3.

(i know - it is all useless discussion ; won't result in anything).

[skgs2000]

Separate quota for Masters = Chances of that being passed and implementation
date = Feb 31, 2075......

[sys_manus]

That is because I see lot of kids come to "what was the name again" schools with megre or no GRE scores just to land here once they get to OPT they get 8 - 10 yrs of experience out of nowhere and they are out in the job market. I can spend all day writing about them, the school and the quality of education but it is not going to do any difference.

[thomachan72]

Originally Posted by waitingnwaiting

Should there not be a separate Green card quota for anyone with a USA Masters Degree in any field?

If USA does that, more people will pay to come to study in USA. Not go to Australia, UK etc to study. So more money to USA. And USA degree holders will be able to use this education and work in USA to improve USA economy. If they go back to their countries, then USA has brain drain.

If they have separate quota for H1, separate H1B quota for Masters Degrees, what is wrong to have one for Green Card?

Please support on this thread if you agree.

My support for those with PhD but not for MS at this point.

[smuggymba]

Originally Posted by waitingnwaiting

Should there not be a separate Green card quota for anyone with a USA Masters Degree in any field?

If USA does that, more people will pay to come to study in USA. Not go to Australia, UK etc to study. So more money to USA. And USA degree holders will be able to use this education and work in USA to improve USA economy. If they go back to their countries, then USA has brain drain.

If they have separate quota for H1, separate H1B quota for Masters Degrees, what is wrong to have one for Green Card?

Please support on this thread if you agree.

Would you have supported this if you did not have a masters?

[manohar_lokh]

[quote=goel_ar;2117210]

Originally Posted by pd052009

GC quota should be based on skillset(1,2,3), not solely based on salary.(remeber, we are talking about future salary here).


we do have it : EB1/EB2/EB3. See EB1 is exploited by 'lot of' people (due to legal loophole) -these people have 4-5 yrs. total work-exp. & get half the salaries & are only 50% useful to US economy than tons of people stuck in eb2 & eb3.

(i know - it is all useless discussion ; won't result in anything).

I probably didn't get what you meant. So if somebody does PhD in a core engineering or science and works as a post doctoral or full time researcher in national labs like Argonne and gets paid half of typical software salary (Even prestigious fellowships like Seyborg sometimes pay half of Bay area software salary) he does not contribute to the economy?

[sorcerer666]

I think 'STEM" is the word here and include people from an "accredited" US university and not something like Trivalley University

[shx]

The potential for misuse is too much. So I only support GC for someone with a PhD, even though I have a Masters.