H-1B visas must end’: Wife of US citizen shares plight of landing IT jobs

[AZ_HighCountry]

@Waz sb

Having travelled extensively in the Nordic region, nations such as Denmark and Norway have a native workforce of between 80-90%, the rest are EU nationals and international workers.

The following news article, of which excerpts I have pulled out, may interest you!

Denmark Ease Work Permit Rules for 16 Non-EU Countries

Denmark is reforming its work permit system by lowering salary thresholds and expanding access for nationals of 16 non-EU countries.

eiglaw.com

On June 30, 2025, the Danish government launched immigration reform proposal aimed at expanding access to work permits for nationals of 16 non-EU countries. The initiative is designed to address labor shortages and attract global talent by lowering salary thresholds and simplifying permit requirements.

The revised salary threshold will apply to nationals from the following 16 non-EU countries:

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• Australia
• India
• China
• Japan
• Singapore
• Brazil
• Malaysia
• Ukraine
• Moldova
• Albania
• North Macedonia
• Serbia
• Montenegro

You would no doubt note the countries which are missing from the list!

Regards

So, if the salary thresholds are lowered, why would I consider relocating across the pond to a country where the cost of living is on par and possibly than which I currently have?

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Old man rants have their own thread. Go sulk over there

We try to remain positive over there and reminisce the days gone past where we lived on the wild side. In some of our cases, maybe a little too wild.

 

[Watandar]

"It is the economy, stupid!". A famous quote from the early 90s elections in America comes to my mind. But Pakistanis are Pakistanis: Stuck in blaming Ayub Khan for the loss of the non-existent 'democracy' of the 50s, for the loss of the then East Pakistan, which was invitable from the beginning.
They don't realize that it is the economy which is the primary engine for growth--not some Amir ul Mominoon Nawaz Sharif, not some Riyasat e Medina Imran Khan, not some Nizam e Mustafa Zia ul Haq, not some Jeffersonian democracy like Benazir Bhutto like BSs they have been fed with.

We are going off topic but I think you fail to realize Ayub Khan was the one who put Pakistan on its present path of disaster. The few industries or dams setup in his reign were incidental, not distributed evenly across Pakistan and not indicative of further economic growth. He is also rightfully blamed for losing half the country because he and West Pakistan elite refused to award East Pakistanis their constitutional rights. But the largest and most persistent harm from Ayub khan era was his disregard for constitutionalism, institutions and foreign policy clientalism which is what actually wrecked Pakistan in subsequent decades. Back to OT.

 

[delta2]

NDS Chauhan is on PDF.

Knowing how the Indians think, this cannot be doubted at all.

 

[PK781]

I could care less. Am happily retired now. Just want my donut and coffee order right, that's all. Is that too much to ask?

lol good luck with getting that order right when its staffed by all indians.
We're having the same issues up north here at the coffee shops.

I suggest people to start making coffee at home. bring a thermos. Or use the kettle at work and use those keurig type pods.

obviously retirees would need to do it home, lol

 

[Vikramaditya1]

No, you have PLENTY in your 'cream', too many who want to 'escape' India and H1B is the best route. Don't kid yourself and us: Indians desperately want to leave India in large numbers just like the Pakistanis, 'cream' or cookies or not.
I also think with your India's manufacturing greatly dented by the Chinese, the prestige which comes with H1Bs and offshoring to India plays an outsized role in the symbology of India being a great economic power; remove that and you will see how the perception will change!!
Having said that, just like water flows downhill due to gravity, the IT $$ will always follow the least path of resistance. I am just glad I have only a few years left before I retire as a software engineer. So threads of these kinds are not as important.

Our outward migration is still lower than that of yours taking our population into consideration. And yet you failed to make a mark wonder why. Anyway, Indian manufacturing is not at all dented rather it's beating expectations with record PMI. You think everything as a zero sum game, "offshoring moved away from India" they offshore because they have business here. It's like asking a company to cut down its size. Americans attempt at quasi socialism is funny to watch.

Also I like the undertone of "least resistant" path to IT. It takes decades to build business relationship, outsourcing the jobs allows those companies to expand to other market with the local talent available. If you don't have engineers you can't make an Engineer in one of those Axiom degree mill and make him work for local Infosys cosplay and make billions over night.

 

[delta2]

So, if the salary thresholds are lowered, why would I consider relocating across the pond to a country where the cost of living is on par and possibly than which I currently have?

The key idea is "lowering salary threhold", the rest is just nonsensical rambling.

Once China completes the automation phase and secures long term energy supply and outcompetes everyone in any given industry, the Europeans especially will return to their pre-colonial, dark ages mentality because it will take them a half a day of work to afford bread for two meals a day.
Once Africa frees itself from the neo-colonial yolk and the French especially have to begin paying REAL wealth from their own pockets to purchase resources at the Real Market rates hey desperately need from Africa, they too will self-destruct socially/economically. Because once Africa frees itself completely from European control, the Europeans will have to then work a whole day just to be able to buy bread.

Just wait and see.

 

[Vikramaditya1]

Exactly.
We should build our own countries. But again our politicians and ruling elite left no stone unturned for making our lives difficult here

Politicians are people just like you and me. Basically politicians are reflective of our society. Democracy was a mistake, I wish we had a Lee Kuan Yew

 

[maverick]

It’s a barbaric system that might have suited its own time, but not anymore. Say what you want, western society doesn’t want it. Keep it in your Muslim lands.

lol …. as i said imbecile.. i dont like talking to low lifers.. on ignore list..

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[maverick]

Did you even read the article you posted yourself ? You think you can misquote the article and the Supreme Court so brazenly just because the article is behind a paywall ? :

Perched above the press seating area inside the U.S. Supreme Court chamber is a marble image of Prophet Muhammad.

Sculpted in a frieze, the Muhammad statue carries a sword and the Quran and stands in the company of more than a dozen other “great lawgivers of history." They range from Moses to Confucius to Napoleon to John Marshall, some of whom appear in an accompanying frieze along the south side of the room.

In a week in which the right to mock – or even depict the Prophet Muhammad – became the focus of world-wide debate, the Supreme Court sculpture of the prophet of Islam has drawn little notice. That wasn’t always the case. Back in the 1990s, a controversy erupted that culminated with calls by some Islamic leaders to sandblast the statue’s face off the chamber wall.


Islam strongly discourages depictions of Muhammad. And in 1997, some Muslim leaders called on the Supreme Court to remove the image inside the chamber.

According to a Washington Post article at the time, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim groups wrote to the court urging that the statue's face be sandblasted. Then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist refused, issuing a letter that said it would be "unlawful to remove or in any way injure an architectural feature in the Supreme Court building."

lol , thats not the point we are discussing

 

[Meengla]

Politicians are people just like you and me. Basically politicians are reflective of our society. Democracy was a mistake, I wish we had a Lee Kuan Yew

Yes.
Coming back just from Pakistan where everyone seemed to blame Mr. Asif Ali Zardari for all the ills which afflict Pakistan, it was hard for me to ignore the hypocrisy of the lesser Zardaris right around me.

 

[El Sidd]

We try to remain positive over there and reminisce the days gone past where we lived on the wild side. In some of our cases, maybe a little too wild.

It's the sulking that really gets me.

 

[mythbuster]

@Mighty_Dragon_Strike

US attack on Venezuela will only confirm, any staleness in Indian - US relationship,

How is a US-VEN war of any relevance to IND-US relationship?

real news is what is that is not on the news channels: Eurpoean & GB Bankruptcy!

All the more reason they need closer economic integration and allow greater migration from more productive nations like IND and restrict immigration from countries which supply troublemakers and welfare recipients.

Regards

You are on a roll maju , are you taking vitamin b complex?

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

lol good luck with getting that order right when its staffed by all indians.
We're having the same issues up north here at the coffee shops.

I suggest people to start making coffee at home. bring a thermos. Or use the kettle at work and use those keurig type pods.

obviously retirees would need to do it home, lol

LOL......I actually do that. Make coffee at home and prior to retirement, we had a K-cup machine in the office. And frankly, donuts are cheaper at QT than at DD. Not quite the selection of course but still a reasonable trade off.

Spent quite a bit of time in Mississauga. Tim Horton's was a regular stop for me.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

It's the sulking that really gets me.

I'm not sulking. But you'll be the first to know when I am.