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I feel like I already fucking explained this, H1B ties the employee to the company for their residency status.
Imagine that you're in Norway, as an example, and you just landed a job with a swanky upstart tech company and got out of Detroit.
They give you a shiny residency permit, with one caveat. You MUST work for that tech company or they will kick your ass the fuck out of Norway. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. If you piss off HR, piss of your manager, get laid off, let go due to poor performance, whatever.
So let's say you moved your entire family to Norway based on this agreement because it was too good of an offer to pass up. You rent or buy a house there because of course you need housing, sign a lease that says you're on the hook until the end of the lease term or take out a loan until X date, and the move out penalty includes paying the remainder of your lease term plus two months penalty in rent.
How would you behave if, when you got there, you gradually started experiencing friction with your employer, and increasingly accelerating deadlines and moving performance goals?
You'd probably do everything in your power to keep that job for the sake of your family and your own livelihood, right?
That's what you're dealing with when it comes to an H1B visa, except they're even more ravenous because they brought their family from a country with a fraction of the GDP and vastly worse living standards that you cannot even fathom as an American living on salary man wages. They would do anything to stay here, and that means they would do anything to stay working at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, whatever.
This is why Amazon, Google et al LOVE the H1B visa program. They have the H1B holders by the balls.
Exactly the condition they'd like you in, if they could, by the way.
That's who you're competing against.
This is also why the dudes were not so carefully hinting, MARRY AN AMERICAN. Because that is the best way for an H1B to go from conditional residency tied to their employer to permanent resident and eventually citizen status. And wouldn't you want to do that? Fuck me, if I ended up in Italy or Germany or Switzerland on a work visa, I'd be looking for a wife as soon as humanly possible, are you kidding me?
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