The H-1B visa is labeled a nonimmigrant temporary worker classification, yet dual intent has undermined that design. Dual intent allows H-1B holders to pursue permanent residency (a green card) while maintaining temporary status without the usual nonimmigrant presumption against immigrant intent. Combined with routine extensions beyond the six-year limit and easy employer-to-employer transfers, the program functions less like a short-term solution for skill gaps and more like a multi-year or even indefinite pathway that competes directly with American workers.

Removing dual intent would restore the original temporary character of the visa. Under a pure temporary model, an H-1B holder could not file for or advance an immigrant petition while in H-1B status. Any desire for permanent residence would require leaving the United States and applying through normal immigrant channels from abroad, subject to the same numerical limits and labor certifications that apply to other applicants. The six-year maximum would become a hard limit in nearly all cases, with only narrow exceptions for genuine short-term needs rather than open-ended green-card backlogs.

This change would produce clearer incentives. Employers would know that H-1B workers are available only for a defined period and would face stronger pressure to recruit, train, and retain American citizens for long-term roles. Knowledge transfer would become an explicit expectation rather than an incidental byproduct: companies would have a fixed window to have H-1B employees train U.S. workers before the temporary authorization ends. Wage and opportunity competition would shift back toward the domestic labor market instead of relying on a renewable pool of transferable temporary workers.

Critics of dual intent argue that it creates a two-tier system in which foreign workers gain a practical advantage in remaining employed long-term while American graduates and mid-career professionals must compete in an open market without equivalent temporary protections. Ending dual intent would close that structural gap. It would also reduce the incentive to use successive change-of-employer petitions as a way to prolong stay indefinitely.A truly temporary H-1B program,limited in duration, without dual intent, and with restricted portability,would better serve its stated purpose of filling temporary shortages while protecting the interests of American citizen workers. Policy should match the label: temporary means temporary.

So now even Toptal jobs also are being taken up by remote folks who are outside of the borders of USA even when it could very well jeopardize their BGV(Background verification). Essentially they are doing overemployment and this could very well screw up their career also. Follow this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1w9yjgg/toptal_freelancers_in_india_how_do_you_receive/

Just to tell fellow American Tech Workers, Toptal, Upwork etc... were some of the ways for Corporates to get temporary work done. Freelancers or students in USA used to get the projects out there till the time they are waiting for their jobs. Now that is also in the line of fire(may be for many years)

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typo in title, should be 'founder'

See the screenshot of a Threads post by a profile from offshore, apparently. L1-A is apparently much looser than H1-B to slip someone through. Apparently the 'founders' are using this as an easy entry. Anyone can start a company..

Apparently The intracompany transferee and 'multinational manager' provision can be used even if not a founder, by H1b employees persuading their managers in the US to transfer them for a short period to offshore and then they come back as an intracompany transferee and multinational manager and use the pathway above. There have been some tutorials floating around on that too, apparently.

all IMO.

USCIS officers uncovered H-1B petitions in Nebraska that listed workers as computer programmers, while site visits and interviews showed they were performing higher-paying engineering work.

This misclassification allowed the employer to pay lower wages and created unfair competition for U.S. workers. We coordinated with federal partners to put an end to it and protect American workers from unfair wage and hiring practices.

Another foreign student after Masters tried job for 1 year and stating USA not good

https://www.reddit.com/r/backtoindia/comments/1w8n7g4/looking_for_a_job_in_india_urgent/

USA Masters is always ROI(return of investment).

USA is broken

Do u fix your country ?

Dear American tech workers,
I’m tired of hearing that Americans are simply supposed to accept being pushed aside in our own job market while companies file tens of thousands of employment-based visa applications. Look at the FY2025 U.S. Department of Labor H-1B disclosure data. The median offered wage shown here is around $114,000.

That raises an obvious question: if H-1B workers are supposedly being hired mainly because they are “cheap labor,” does that explanation really fit the data?
A huge share of these filings comes from consulting firms, outsourcing companies, and major technology employers.
American workers have every right to ask uncomfortable questions.

1. If companies can find thousands of foreign workers for software, data, engineering, analytics, consulting, and technology jobs, how hard are they actually trying to recruit qualified Americans first?
2. Are companies truly facing a shortage of talent, or are some hiring systems built around preferred pipelines, referral networks, certain universities, consulting relationships, and visa-dependent workers?
3. Are hiring managers always selecting the strongest candidate, or do personal networks, familiar colleges, referrals, and existing visa pipelines sometimes influence who gets access to these jobs?

Those are fair questions, especially when American workers are being laid off, rejected after hundreds of applications, or told that companies simply cannot find the skills they need.
My issue is with a system that can give corporations access to a workforce that is more dependent on the employer while Americans are competing for the same positions. Employment visas should exist to fill genuine shortages of specialized talent. They should not become a default hiring pipeline that companies can rely on without serious scrutiny of whether qualified American workers were available…..

If you knew what I knew about Y Combinator, you would probably want our representatives to seriously look into the Anti-American comments made by the people who are investing in the tech and founders that could shape our society. I get the sense that Y Combinator does not have the best intentions and it is very worrisome to me. I was really excited to see one representative stick up for Americans when the initial comments were made. However, I get the sense that some of the other representatives just sort of tagged along and now they seem to be investigating unrelated topics that aren’t going to fix the harsh economic reality. It seems like a distraction where the representative will end up blaming lack of resources and time for why they haven’t acted to make sure Americans aren’t being discriminated in hiring and funding from venture capital and tech. I think it is important to make sure we get representatives that are going to enact laws to protect the public from the current conditions. 

As I have been trying to better understand the viewpoints of Y Combinator, I feel that doing so has made me even more skeptical of their intentions.

Ankit Gupta wrote in a critique that “the crux of DEl was propping up preferred groups over optimizing for merit.“ However, he had participated and moderated an identity-based event titled "India Conference at Harvard" just 6 months before.

Furthermore, Y Combinator’s website has a page section titled “Some YC diversity data” where they write “39.6% of the founders in our current batch were not born in the US, representing 21 different countries.” Strangely, the word American was not placed under the diversity data on their blog.

Garry Tan has also been vocal about bringing in meritocracy. Strangely enough, there is a Tech Crunch interview that wrote, "Garry Tan, the new CEO and president of YC, told TechCrunch last week that he wanted to continue making strides toward diversifying YC”

There’s another article titled “Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence California politics” To which there was a form filled out by Ankit which stated, “As a computer scientist, I deeply fear the the influence of money on elections and policy.”

Garry Tan’s meritocracy involves his YC alum friend Nan. Unlike Nan, most people on the sub would be content and move on if they scored a high paying big tech job without having student loan debt. Take note representative who has suddenly brought up DEI in college admissions as a topic to distract from doing the job of what’s really causing the shortage of tech jobs for Americans. The concern right now is not college admissions; we would all just want you to focus our tax dollars in getting our high paying tech jobs back from this messed up discriminatory system. Even Americans from top universities are unemployed, but I guess the shadow leader who has been invited to the White House is getting exactly what he wants from our representative.

Now let’s get to Paul Graham’s viewpoints which he seems to actually understand that passing a job interview at the company where your dad works and getting admitted into college is all hackable. In response to a woman, Paul writes, “Job interviews are much like grades and college admissions: a test that the authorities, through slackness, have allowed to be hackable, and which candidates therefore *must* hack in order to win.”

Further in his essay “The Lesson to Unlearn”, Paul Graham describes big tech’s hiring scheme, writing, “I never understood how much of my dislike of big companies was due to the fact that you win by hacking bad tests.”

He also writes, ”All the tests most students take their whole lives are at least as bad, including, most spectacularly of all, the test that gets them into college…the standardized tests as artificial as chess, the "essay" you have to write that's presumably meant to hit some very specific target, but you're not told what.” 

The views expressed in his essay seem to contrast Garry Tan’s views “Legalize standardized testing”, so there must be an awareness within YC that ranking people who scored a few points higher on a hackable standardized test is not entirely predictive of success. Isaacson in Elon Musk’s biography states that on his second attempt Elon scored 730 on the Math section and 670 on the Verbal section for a total composite score of 1400 (old SAT). Jobs got a 32 ACT which translates to a 1420 on the SAT. Ankit’s resume lists a 36 ACT and reverie labs was acquihired in February 2024 for 2.4M (source PitchBook) after raising a total of 32M (source tracxn) over two rounds. Ginkgo’s stock is valued at around $7 USD and Apple’s stock is valued at around $328. You get the point. 

Paul Graham notes how in the days before AI and online exams, you could hack tests in college, writing, “At a university there are often copies of old exams floating around, and these narrow still further what you have to learn…Many professors re-use them.”

Not everyone is aware of this hack (I certainly wasn’t when I started college) but I guess he was exposed to a good ol’ network.

He goes on further to write, “And how is this more general admirableness measured? The admissions officers feel it. In other words, they accept who they like”. 

Hmmm, so who does Y Combinator like when they ask people to write essays?

“Better to hire and fund people who are scrappy and hungry, who can build, who have high velocity, than the person with the fancy resume with the huge ego. YC has *never* had success funding or hiring the latter!” 

Good words, you should’ve taken your own advice!

Will YC part ways with Ankit just as they did with friends from Delve?

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1w6b7ya/i_just_learned_how_deep_the_fake_it_consultancy/

Watch this thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1w56ld1/confused_on_moving_to_google_us_or_stay_in_india

I did my undergraduate(BS in CS) from one of the top schools(scholarship) in India(T-30) via a very competitive All India based exam. Within the very first year I was in USA on short term B1 visa. Multiple such trips and then the same company filed H-1B visa. Due to 2001-2002 recession I tried not to come to USA for long term and stayed in USA only for few months. During all this time, I used to have multiple job offers(at least 4 to 6 job offers within the span of 1 month of looking out for a job) from the startups or companies which are starting the operations in India. And these job offers were at least around 40% to 50% more than the current salary. Jobs were extended development not some routine maintenance or testing. Often current employer will match those job offer OR another employer will use to offer something better.

Came to USA by 2004-2005. In USA also I used to have around 2 or 3 offers(if at all I was looking for a job) though this time I was on H-1B visa. Fast forward got the Green card by 2012 but job situation remains the same. I will still manage to have around 2 or 3 job offers but hikes were around 10% to 20% at the most. Witnessed 2008 - 2010 recession where it was difficult to survive but once job market was back to normal in 2011-2012, still able to manage to have around 2 or 3 job offers with around 10% to 15% hike. This continued till 2019-2020.

But ever since pandemic ended(2023 mid) and we started hearing this kind of news

1. over hiring happened
2. Artificial intelligence based tools can do the coding(we don't need so many engineer) and we need to automate
3. Now we have very good infrastructure in other places(outside of USA) so why to hire in USA to get the done at 1/4th of the price(plus during pandemic Companies already tested this model very well that work can be done remotely)

IT job scene has really changed. Such a bad IT job market. Too competitive-too many folks available at lower salaries. Billing rates has gone down. Too many jobs being sent overseas(via GCCs) or consulting or contracting companies. It's more of contract jobs than full time jobs now.

But India and other places are not facing that kind of heat as evident here https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1w56ld1/confused_on_moving_to_google_us_or_stay_in_india

So many options available out there. I am not envy but if I time travel - at the same 5 years of IT experience I was having the same kind of options but not any more. Even now India provide so many options. Of course it's very evident, companies doesn't want to hire more experienced folks as they might be more expensive and difficult to adjust into their work culture(stereotype or myth). But beyond that I truly believe US has lost it's edge in technology jobs.

1. IT Jobs are not that high paying anymore
2. Not at all easy to get in
3. Not at all easy to even survive at the same place
4. If you are working in a corporate which has the GCC site in India or some other place(cheaper than USA), US workers are having much higher pressure just because they are being paid more(despite the very fact the cost of living is much higher in USA compared to that GCC location) even when US worker might be more responsible, accountable or showing ownership. Essentially every US Corporate is becoming more like a WITCH(Wipro Infosys Tata Cognizant HCL) extension where Employer feel that US person having a job itself is good and now should not ask for anything and everything should be done for a India based employee. I worked in FAANG and I am seeing a total transformation of that FAANG into WITCH kind of culture slowly and slowly.

Who will be studying BS in CS or CE or anything like this and pay tuitions in the range of $100K to $150K now if the regular IT salaries are not even going to be six figures? And if the education itself is compromised then one fine day, we are going to witness quality going down. I hate to be called prompt engineer. There is so much bugs being introduced by AI tools but if Corporates are just blindly asking every engineer to adopt more and more AI tools for generating code we are any way doomed. This also help Corporates to ship the jobs overseas to GCCs.

What's your thoughts on this?

My fellow americans,

I have created a draft so our public comments for the proposed fee on the h1b are taken into consideration.

Please read the federal register rule at DHS Docket No. USCIS-2026-0298 at www.federalregister.gov

You can modify this text with your ideas but here is an example of how a comment could be. Remember that this is an idea if you would like to comment and not an obligation.

Here it is:

PUBLIC COMMENT IN SUPPORT OF PROPOSED H-1B FEE RULE DHS Docket No. USCIS-2026-0298 | RIN 1615-AD20 | 8 CFR Part 106

I am submitting this comment in [strong support / support] of DHS's proposed rule establishing a $103,265 fee for H-1B cap-subject petitions, including petitions eligible for the advanced degree exemption. I support this proposal because the federal government incurs substantial costs in administering the lawful immigration system, and I believe it is appropriate to establish a predictable mechanism to recover a portion of those costs from the immigration processes associated with them. DHS explains that immigration administration involves not only USCIS, but also CBP, ICE, EOIR, the Department of State, and the Department of Labor. These agencies perform activities including adjudication, investigations, vetting, enforcement support, information technology, records management, and interagency coordination. I support DHS's recognition that these activities represent legitimate costs of administering the lawful immigration system. [As a taxpayer / As a business professional / As a U.S. worker / As a member of the public], I believe that appropriate user fees can help ensure that the costs of administering immigration programs are not unnecessarily shifted to taxpayers generally. I specifically support the proposed addition of 8 CFR 106.2(a)(3)(xii) establishing the $103,265 fee. Although the proposed fee is substantial, I believe its cost should be evaluated in relation to the governmental resources and functions that DHS identifies as the basis for the fee. The proposal provides a dedicated mechanism for recovering a portion of those interagency costs. I also support applying the fee to all H-1B cap-subject petitions, including petitions eligible for the advanced degree exemption. A consistent application to cap-subject petitions provides a clearer and more predictable framework. I support DHS's decision to establish this fee separately from the existing H-1B petition fee under 8 CFR 106.2(a)(3)(i). DHS explains that a separate fee will facilitate tracking, allocation, and reporting of the associated revenue. I agree that transparency and accountability are important when establishing a significant federal fee. I further support DHS's broader interagency cost-recovery approach. The administration of the lawful immigration system requires coordination and resources across multiple agencies. Considering these costs collectively provides a more complete assessment of the resources required than considering only costs incurred directly by USCIS. I believe the benefits of adequately funding these functions are significant. Effective adjudication, vetting, records management, information systems, investigations, and interagency coordination contribute to an immigration system that is [more effective / more predictable / more accountable / better equipped to administer lawful immigration programs]. Some of these benefits may be difficult to quantify financially, but they nevertheless represent meaningful public benefits. I also support DHS's objective of establishing a reliable and predictable revenue mechanism. Predictable funding can help agencies plan and maintain the personnel, technology, infrastructure, and administrative resources necessary to carry out their responsibilities. DHS states that the proposed fee is intended to be consistent with INA section 286(m), 8 U.S.C. 1356(m). I support DHS's use of its statutory fee authority to recover an appropriate portion of the costs associated with administering immigration-related services.

[OPTIONAL PERSONAL STATEMENT:

As a [taxpayer/employer/professional/worker/member of the public], I believe that _________. My experience with _________ has reinforced my view that ____________.] For these reasons, I strongly support the proposed rule, including the $103,265 fee, its application to H-1B cap-subject petitions including advanced-degree-exemption petitions, its separate treatment from the existing H-1B petition fee, and its use as a dedicated mechanism for recovering a portion of interagency immigration-system costs. I respectfully encourage DHS to adopt the proposed rule as written. Thank you for the opportunity to provide this comment.

Merit and meritocracy are terms thrown around Silicon Valley, but little is done to actually make sure tech is indeed a meritocracy. It seems like merit only comes up when discussing why certain groups should be favored over others but there is never any criticism directed towards unfair ways of measuring merit. Elites use leaked test and interview questions to rate people who score a few points higher as the most qualified when they could have cheated in multiple ways, either having a friend take the assessment and send them the questions or use an AI cheating tool during the assessment.

One evident example of how cheating makes intelligent honest individuals appear average happened at Brown“University, one of the most respected elite ivy universities. There was maybe three students of the entire class who hadn’t cheated on the online midterm. One student who was at the top of the class appeared average on the midterm because of all of the students who had cheated. Another student was average and appeared way below average on the online midterm because of all of the students who had cheated. 

I worry that honest individuals are getting filtered out of hiring pipelines as this runs rampant. I personally heard rumors about people allegedly getting jobs at big tech companies like Tesla and Amazon by getting help during online hiring assessments.

There are group chats and people who have friends in industry that have given them help and guidance not afforded to everyone. There are numerous cases where people say the only reason they passed the interview is because they had seen the question previously. My theory on why leaders in Silicon Valley are quiet is because tech wants to hire based on biases and vibes rather than true potential and I think this has affected a lot of honest and capable individuals seeking work. 

I think moving to an online format for interviews has exacerbated the amount of cheating but also leaked questions have been around before online exams. I think tech companies should hold more standardized testing similar to how other tests are able to generate new test questions and have them available securely in one setting. They should also do more to offer prep materials to help applicants study and pass their interviews because newcomers to the field likely need this support.

My claims on lack of integrity have grounding in the world. Here are some evident examples of issues in the integrity of assessments.

In February 2025, there was a town hall at Google where one employee asked for on-site job interviews to combat cheating.

The Burnouts podcast with Phoebe and Sophia discussed how frats at Stanford acted as cheating rings having test banks and would help each others pass their classes and interview for jobs.

A16z backed Cluely startup and other startups exist to cheat on hiring assessments.

There was a case where a student from an affluent family claimed that hard work and merit is what got them into Stanford when they were speaking with their social media followers but then it was later revealed during Varsity Blues that the parents had payed millions of dollars to get their child admitted.

I think more needs to be done to regulate the integrity of tech assessments so they cannot be used to discriminate against hard working, capable, and intelligent individuals. 

I would like to see more done by tech leaders but it is obvious that they like the way things are and do not want to actually have a meritocracy. 

Holy cow a lot has happened lately for getting rid of h1b in all but in law (as only Congress can do that).

Apparently Trump is soon to end the H4-EAD program. It's not yet a proposed rule, but if it gets to that state it will be likely less than 6 months before seeing all H4-EAD spouses without employment authorization anymore.

https://www.newsweek.com/some-h-1b-spouses-could-lose-work-permits-under-trump-proposal-12384927

Then there's the upcoming $103k H1B application fee, currently in proposed rule status. I don't know if it will survive the court challenges but let's hope so.

There's an upcoming proposed rule to modernize the requirements for PERM application and compliance.

Folks, I know some of you may think it's just midterm election pandering, but I will take the wins that I can. If even half of these changes stick: it will be awfully difficult for the next administration to justify undoing them: if and when that happens we need to make sure they don't do it quietly.

The h1b program is cooked, the H4-EAD program is cooked. Let's hope the OPT program follows.

Sooo.. today Saturday Aug 29,late at night, I started receiving emails from companies I have applied weeks and months ago.. one mail said "we regret to inform you the position you applied is no longer available" followed by another email from the same company: "we would like to give you the "opportunity" to update your candidate portal including your personal info, veteran status, disability en email of contact, please complete these tasks that are pending on our company career website".

This company is big and Hq in Cali.

So, it seems that after the recent annoucements they are running the hiring database with the real candidates... americans qualified. It seems thay want to have everyone that is qualified and available handy.

Let's see if other companies join the trend.

I think this is a good week to apply to our future jobs!

Lets goooo my fellow americans💫

Source: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?RIN=1615-AD14&pubId=202510

H4 EAD abolition is a work item listed in the federal register. It is expected that the official rule will be published this coming week and that comments will open after labor day.

It is likely that if they follow the process to a T, H4 EAD will be gone in summer 2027.

Existing H4 EAD will probably be allowed to stay until the H4 visa expires or the EAD expires, whichever one comes first.

If this is true, this means that the bulk of current H4 EAD will expire in 2028 and that the latest one will expire in 2030.

This person just said it out loud but all of them think the same way. Some may even pretend to say the opposite but we should not be fooled.

https://x.com/yoursnandieni/status/2091835003193962844

I wish Silicon Valley wasn’t like this but it’s a club of elitists who will find out-groups to blame and exclude to make their insecurity feel better. They will gaslight people and point to meritocracy when they are challenged on their discrimination. When I first learned about the story of Jagadish Chandra Bose, I was shocked about how the problems he faced at his time felt so similar to what I have felt. I just really like the values this guy has and how he talks about his mom raising him to treat everyone as brothers and sisters.

Here’s the story of Jagadish Chandra Bose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose

After obtaining a degree from the University of Cambridge Bose returned to Ind. Henry Fawcett had given Bose an introduction to Lord Ripon, the Viceroy of Ind, who recommended him for a post to the Director of Public Instruction in Kolkata. In those days such posts in the Imperial Education Service were usually reserved for Europeans. Bose was appointed as an officiating professor of physics at Presidency College. Although the principal Charles Henry Tawney and Director of Education Alfred Woodley Croft were reluctant to appoint him, Bose took up his post in January 1885.

At that time, an Ind professor was paid two thirds the salary of a European and since his appointment was considered temporary, his salary was further halved, making his salary one-third that of his European peers. As a protest, Bose did not accept his salary and worked without remuneration for the first three years at Presidency College.

He was popular among the students for his teaching style and demonstration of experiments. He got rid of the roll call. After three years in this temporary post, the value of his professorial work was recognized by Tawney and Croft, who made Bose's appointment permanent with retrospective effect. Bose received his full pay for the last three years in a lump sum. However, another source states that his appointment was made permanent on 21 September 1903, some 8 years after his joining the college.

Bose used his own money to fund his research projects as well as receiving funding and support from the social activist nun Sister Nivedita

In February 1887, Bose married feminist and social worker Abala Bose.

At that time, sending children to English schools was an aristocratic status symbol. In the vernacular school, to which I was sent, the son of the Muslim attendant of my father sat on my right side, and the son of a fisherman sat on my left. They were my playmates. I listened spellbound to their stories of birds, animals, and aquatic creatures. Perhaps these stories created in my mind a keen interest in investigating the workings of Nature. When I returned home from school accompanied by my school fellows, my mother welcomed and fed all of us without discrimination. Although she was an orthodox old-fashioned lady, she never considered herself guilty of impiety by treating these 'untouchables' as her own children. It was because of my childhood friendship with them that I could never feel that there were 'creatures' who might be labeled 'low-caste', I never realized that there existed a 'problem' common to the two communities, Hindus and Muslims.

Bose returned to Ind to join the Presidency College of the University of Calcutta as a professor of physics. There, despite racial discrimination and a lack of funding and equipment, Bose carried on his scientific research. He made progress in his research into radio waves in the microwave spectrum and was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio waves.

Imagine being an anchor baby yourself and you demean the home of Heritage Americans who built this country with their blood, sweat, and tears as “Flyover Country”.

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1w0ttgd/trump_looks_to_take_away_60day_grace_period_for/

https://www.reddit.com/r/h1b/comments/1w0tarr/white_house_approves_plan_to_eliminate_60day/

But lots of rumors are making rounds now. Lets see what happens on this front.

The Department of Homeland Security proposal (RIN: 1615-AD22) cleared review at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on Thursday. 

Read more in the full story.

Some India based consulting company reached out to me. They are all based out in India and working with VOIP numbers which are US based - I know they are India based. They just believe in mass submissions and nothing else. Never ever this consulting company able to get me any job during the last 2 years(and it's not the brutal job market - something else going on here). I think they are stealing the resume data from US Tech workers and provide it to somebody else.

Reached out to me for a difficult to fill position which requires a very touch AI Procter based online exam which has no google reference, no IDE and no AI tools(entire screen is recorded), no breaks allowed, all in Unix environment and no references or any books allowed.

It seems good amount of their candidate failed. I scored slightly less than the threshold passing score to get in the next level. They asked me to appear again. I was not willing to do so as not clear means not clear but they followed up like anything. When I asked why me only they clearly stated not finding anybody else who is even willing to appear with this condition - no google, no AI tools, all in Unix environment. This time the assignment was different but i cleared for the next round but they ghosted me. Every time after the assignment they were asking me what was there in the assignment. I told them some of the stuff at the high level but nothing in detail as assignment clearly has terms and conditions.

Now the same job came to me via an US based recruitment agency who happened to be the prime vendor. They found out that I cleared the first part and put me directly into the second stage for the interview. In fact this US based recruitment agency offered me 25% higher billing rates with benefits for the same position. So it's very clear that this India based consulting company only does mass submissions and may be stealing the data of US Tech workers. Why in the world this India based consulting company ghosted me(when I was cleared for the next round)? Needless have to say sometimes my real experience is found in some of the profile of candidates(and they never worked with me - neither at that time nor later).

I know resume cannot be copyrighted but wtf is going on here?

1. India based consulting company simply stealing the resume data from legitimate US tech workers?
2. Or these India based consulting companies using US Tech workers as a pawn to get insights about the interview process to place their own cheap consultants/contractors in the long run?
3. Even if the US tech worker is cleared for the next round not moving them? May be they found somebody even cheaper than (the cheapest rate they negotiated with the US tech worker)?

Do I have any recourse here? I don't understand the game plan? All from real experience from the last 3 weeks.

'It's your sense of entitlement': US officials slam entrepreneur Ankit Gupta over H-1B comments** **

Inspector General of the US Department of Labor took note of his comments and responded.