In the Netherlands, if you're here on a highly-skilled migrant visa and leave your job, you get 90 days to get a new one. The only requirement is that the company you work for is also recognised as an employer of highly-skilled migrants.
Not in Canada. My Post Graduate Work Visa allowed me to work wherever. Or not work at all. The US has so many variations of slavery-lite it is genuinely disturbing.
The US has something called OPT, which is essentially the same thing - you can work for any employer or for no employer, anywhere in the US. OPT lasts for a year, which is longer than the shortest time you could be authorized for under Canada’s program (8 months) but shorter than the longest time (three years).
It's completely inappropriate to repurposes the word "slavery" for H1B visa holders.
Sure, being tied to your current employer in a way that makes it hard leave is a terrible position to be in, but these folks are also well-compensated workers living comfortably in the richest nation on earth. They're free to travel anywhere in the US and are free to leave their job at any time.
Actual slaves don't spend weekends wine-tasting in Napa or cutting work early to catch a Giants game.
In the Netherlands, if you're here on a highly-skilled migrant visa and leave your job, you get 90 days to get a new one. The only requirement is that the company you work for is also recognised as an employer of highly-skilled migrants.
This is the case in the UK (with 60 days instead of 90), and I think it's also the same in the US.
Not in Canada. My Post Graduate Work Visa allowed me to work wherever. Or not work at all. The US has so many variations of slavery-lite it is genuinely disturbing.
The US has something called OPT, which is essentially the same thing - you can work for any employer or for no employer, anywhere in the US. OPT lasts for a year, which is longer than the shortest time you could be authorized for under Canada’s program (8 months) but shorter than the longest time (three years).
Doesn't the UK have a general skilled-worker visa?
There's a special talent visa that's general but it has much higher requirement than skilled worker visa.
That doesn't make it any less slavery
It's completely inappropriate to repurposes the word "slavery" for H1B visa holders.
Sure, being tied to your current employer in a way that makes it hard leave is a terrible position to be in, but these folks are also well-compensated workers living comfortably in the richest nation on earth. They're free to travel anywhere in the US and are free to leave their job at any time.
Actual slaves don't spend weekends wine-tasting in Napa or cutting work early to catch a Giants game.
I wouldn't ever be "comfortable" with that sword of Damocles hanging overhead.
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Many countries have immigration systems that are similarly bad the U.S.'s.