[quote=deadzone][quote=Coronita][quote=deadzone]Mexico City is a very expensive place to live, by the way, if you want to live with US level creature comforts. I think salary would go much further in many areas of the US.[/quote]
H1-B EB-2, typically reserved for Masters/PHD and more heavily skilled people.
Anyway, the guy closed escrow last week and moved in this week. Nice home. Living the american dream…at least a preview to it…pretty happy to be here.[/quote]
Sure, but no guarantee he will ever get a green card, not that it is necessary. Best bet is to marry a US citizen.[/quote]
Yes, i fat fingered. $2k is for house rent + live in nanny + driver + general food/etc.
We pay him about $10% less than an equivalent Senior Engineer here in SD.
As far as visas are concerned. That was a concern with the trump administration, less so under a normal administration. During the Trump days, at my previous company, we had a few people from Spain that had their greencard status put on hold, and then they had visa issues, so they left our company, when back to Spain, and worked for a subsidiary there. But that was more attypical in the high tech field… Lots of Qualcomm engineers started as H1-Bs, and because they can’t go anywhere else for the next 5-6 years ( in the past), they put in their time. At the end of the 5 years they didn’t want to go….because they fully vested their stock grants and were sitting on a very nice stock option/RSU grant. That’s one way to keep employees and not worry about base pay raises. Qualcomm typically had lower than average base pay but the stock grants more than make up for the difference. Also they were on 6 month review cycles and had a hefty bonus. Intuit, use to be the same way also, their annual bonus was 20%+ cash on top of stock. Not sure these days. Illumina has a pretty good package too, though typically they only hire good scientists… not so much the low level IT type work. Also , unlike years past, things are slightly better with the transferability of H1-Bs across employers via an I-129. So H1-B’s to some extent ,are no longer “stuck” at an employer waiting for greencard eligibility, in case it turns out to be a bad employer, closes, etc.
Lots of foreign talent don’t need to “marry” for a greencard. They can make it on their own perfectly fine, and in a lot of ways, probably prefer that. We’re not talking about mail order bridge and grooms here….Besides. the purchasing power of that is less now too with inflation and the rising cost of housing here in the US, lol.
