美国政府收紧H-1B申请条件 特别针对入门级程序员

  美国公民及移民服务局发布一份备忘录，加大了企业通过H-1B签证将外籍技术工人引入美国的难度。

 

 

 

原文如下：

 

Computer programmers may no longer be eligible for H-1B visas

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly over the weekend released 

new guidance that computer programmers are no longer presumed to be eligible

for H-1B visas.

 

What it means: This aligns with the administration's focus on reserving the 

temporary visas for very high-skilled (and higher-paid) professionals while 

encouraging low- and mid-level jobs to go to American workers instead. The 

new guidance affects applications for the lottery for 2018 fiscal year that 

opened Monday.

 

What comes next: Companies applying for H-1B visas for computer programming 

positions will have to submit additional evidence showing that the jobs are 

complex or specialized and require professional degrees. Entry-level wages 

attached to these visa applications will also get more scrutiny. The change 

appears to target outsourcing companies, who typically employ lower-paid, 

lower-level computer workers. 

 

根据上周五晚间发布的这份新指引，电脑程序员申请工作签证的时候需要提供额外信息，以证明这份工作很复杂、需要更高深的知识和经验。新政策立即生效，而今年的工作签证申请与抽签程序周一开始启动，意味着企业的申请签证将会受到影响。以往备受诟病的印度外包公司可能损失最大。

 

此次的政策变动没有明确禁止申请某个特定类型的工作，相反，对电脑程序员做最简单工作的申请进行更严格审查。

 

“这是在加强合格审查的正确方向上迈出的一步，”在H-1B签证项目方面颇有研究的哈佛大学副教授Ron Hira表示。“你得拿出更多理由来说明为什么你需要这个人。”