{"id":96,"date":"2008-11-11T06:46:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/programming-visas-and-effective-regulation\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T06:46:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:46:55","slug":"programming-visas-and-effective-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/programming-visas-and-effective-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming Visas, and effective regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu\/hbsp\/hbr\/articles\/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&amp;articleID=F0811C&amp;ml_issueid=null&amp;ml_subscriber=true&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;_requestid=57527\">article on H-1B visas in the Harvard Business Review<\/a>, and there was an interesting point made that I wanted to share.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Multinationals, desperate to fill technical positions, have been seeking alternatives to the use of H-1Bs. A solution that\u2019s growing in popularity is intracompany transfer visas, which allow a firm to bring an unlimited number of foreign employees into the United States. But employees are eligible only after they have worked for the company for a year. So a multinational might, for example, assign a new hire to spend 12 months working in a country with looser immigration rules before bringing him or her to the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article then goes on to discuss how companies are also trying to simply avoid basing workers in the US at all. I suspect that &#8212; long term &#8212; this is not something we should want to encourage.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was interesting because it&#8217;s a clear demonstration of how companies will find a way around regulations, and how carefully regulation has to be designed so that is effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article on H-1B visas in the Harvard Business Review, and there was an interesting point made that I wanted to share. Multinationals, desperate to fill technical positions, have been seeking alternatives to the use of H-1Bs. A solution that\u2019s growing in popularity is intracompany transfer visas, which allow a firm to bring &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/programming-visas-and-effective-regulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Programming Visas, and effective regulation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,79,88],"tags":[311,313,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}