Yellowstone Earthquakes

See http://tinyurl.com/yellocano for the latest news stories about some minor earthquakes that have been happening at Yellowstone. Now see http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm for some background information on this supervolcano. See http://www.quake.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/yellowstone/index.html for the latest seismic activity charts and pay special attention to the charts from 6-7 days ago compared to today and yesterday.

H-1B Program Abusers

Many companies in the USA are knowingly abusing the H-1B Visa program. I've identified a list of 27 institutions that obviously fit this criteria. In the year 2007 they sponsored at least 100 employees and paid them average salaries under 50K per year. Before today I always suspected that this program was being abused. Now I'm very confident that this is the case. I'm quite familiar with the technology industry market and know very well that there are plenty of highly-skilled American workers looking for jobs. The prevailing wages for anyone with hard-to-find skills is generally over 100K. Any company that is really looking for American workers can find them. The idea that any company could hire over 100 workers in a single year on a H-1B visa for less than half that salary level and say they are doing so at prevailing wages because American workers aren't available is absurd.

Here's the list of companies:

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Indus-Valley-Consultants/261028.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Axiom-Sources/56045.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Materials-Software-System/342768.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/DivIHN-Integration/156802.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Diverse-Lynx/156584.htm

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Yash-Technologies/607231.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Engineering-Technology-Associates/179491.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Hidef-Technologies/243989.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Genex-Technologies/215023.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Camo-Technologies/91791.htm

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Cyberthink/139002.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Coolsoft/129158.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Real-Soft/449967.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Virtue-Group/585690.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Maxisit/343995.htm

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Vensoft/581110.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Epower/613339.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Dibon-Solutions/153922.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/GTRR/230815.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Harmony-Science-Academy/131451.htm


http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Genome-International/213717.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Viraj/585163.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Advent-Global-Solutions/16603.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Terasoft-International/533774.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Allied-Informatics/26234.htm

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Infodat-International/262157.htm
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Cambridge-Resource-Group/91436.htm

Note: I apologize in advance if any of the data is inaccurate. I will do everything I possibly can to make sure this list is accurate.

H-1B Visa Program Abuse

In reading http://www.myvisajobs.com/Top_Visa_Sponsors.aspx its obvious that several companies are abusing the laws that have created and sustained the H-1B Visa Program currently administered by the US Department of Homeland Security. Satyam, Patni, Multivision and Enterprise Business Solutions appear to be the ones most abusing the program. The salaries they are paying are significantly lower than prevailing wages for workers with hard to find skills.

The purpose of the H-1B visa is to give U.S. employers the opportunity to hire foreign professionals if a U.S. citizen or resident is not available. The intent is to make it possible for US companies to be able to hire people with hard to find skills. The truth is that for almost ANY technical skill in the IT industry there are plenty of American workers available who can be brought in to do the job. The problem for these businesses is that any IT professional with hard-to-find skills and sufficient experience can easily make 6-figures. Anyone on a H-1B visa getting paid fair market for "hard-to-find skills" should be getting 6-figures too.

What the abusing companies are doing is finding creative ways to BREAK THE LAW. The data doesn't lie. Read it yourself. Any company not averaging 100K+ for their H-1B workers is obviously playing games. The ones who are the furthest below 100K in their averages IMHO are playing the biggest games.