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Open source developers face H1-B visa puzzle
he controversial U.S. visa program puts paperwork and quotas between U.S.-based open source companies and international job seekers
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Whether a prospective hire has a degree or not, they are just hard to find. The anonymous open source developer we spoke about earlier explained that his job was posted for two years before he filled it on an H1-B visa after jumping through all of the hoops in the application process. “It really put me off, working here,” he explains. “I had considered working in Canada.”
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His view of the whole H1-B process as it is?
“I don’t think it benefits anybody.”
Jim Romeo is a freelance writer based in Chesapeake, Va. Contact him through his Web site, www.JimRomeo.net
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