Thread: Green Card sponsorship in 2009 economic climate

Green card sponsorship in the 2009 economic climate
Por Wendy Hess
14:16 | 01/30/09

Many discussions over the past year have centered on whether an employer could successfully “sponsorâ€

Nice try, but he's wrong about qualified American candidates not applying for the PERM advertised positions a few years back. I was laid off in 2001 and got quite active on the job seeker's advice boards. We were seeing these ads back then, suspiciously detailed, almost like they were composed with someone in mind. Later we learned that for these ads, there had been an H-1B hire in the past and the ad was posted on behalf of a foreign worker who was already here in the job. Companies found a million excuses to ignore and disqualify any American who applied.

The PERM process is used to keep an H-1B foreign worker here on the job permanently, so that there is no more issue with visa experation, and begin the process to give him a green card.

Here is a website with more information: http://www.programmersguild.org/docs/cohen.html

A direct link to the famous YouTube video is here: http://www.youtube.com/programmersguild

In it, a panel of attorneys give a presentation showing companies how they can fake their way through the PERM process, keep the foreign worker they already have, and reject any American who shows up.

PERM ads were a part of a larger mystery, to us, of the 2001-2004 job market. The recruiters disappeared, or stopped returning our calls, our resumes seemed to vanish into black holes, we'd see ads that had everything about us but our picture and then apply and receive no response or interview .... The job market started to improve once the yearly H-1B cap sunsetted from 200k back to 65k in 2003. Coincidence? I think not.