>If I hire someone I'd like them to start working sooner rather than later. I don't understand why that needs to be explained.
Everyone would sure love to have immediately available workforce but I don't see how it's an insurmountable obstacle. Apart from the intern return offer, it's pretty common in some industries to have non-competes and many businesses wait for a year for almost every employer they hire to be able to start working. You just need to organize your business for the labor market realities and not your wants. Skilled labor market is rarely so liquid as to get workers without significant waits. In every firm where I worked there had been vacancies opened for years. Look at any FAANG, they have hundreds and thousands vacancies open permanently.
>If you aren't born in India or China. That rules out a good 1/3rd of the world's population. And even a year is a really long time to wait for a new hire to start.
Yes, it's because there are many people from China and India going through the F1->OPT->H1->GC pipeline. Nobody forces you to hire from China and India, plenty of people in Europe and the rest of Asia would love to move to America for work, experienced people too, not fresh grads.
>Where's the lie?
You said it's useless if the GC takes "1-20" years, most GCs take at least 1 year so they are lying when they say it's useful. Alternatively, your assertion of usefulness might not be realistic.
Everyone would sure love to have immediately available workforce but I don't see how it's an insurmountable obstacle. Apart from the intern return offer, it's pretty common in some industries to have non-competes and many businesses wait for a year for almost every employer they hire to be able to start working. You just need to organize your business for the labor market realities and not your wants. Skilled labor market is rarely so liquid as to get workers without significant waits. In every firm where I worked there had been vacancies opened for years. Look at any FAANG, they have hundreds and thousands vacancies open permanently.
>If you aren't born in India or China. That rules out a good 1/3rd of the world's population. And even a year is a really long time to wait for a new hire to start.
Yes, it's because there are many people from China and India going through the F1->OPT->H1->GC pipeline. Nobody forces you to hire from China and India, plenty of people in Europe and the rest of Asia would love to move to America for work, experienced people too, not fresh grads.
>Where's the lie?
You said it's useless if the GC takes "1-20" years, most GCs take at least 1 year so they are lying when they say it's useful. Alternatively, your assertion of usefulness might not be realistic.