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**bs44MhUW** · 09-28-2009, 09:44 AM

Just an anecdote; one of my apartmentmates at Texas A&M was a grad student from India, here to study Industrial Engineering; A&M's industrial engineering program is ranked very highly in the U.S., usually in the top 5. After graduation, he didn't find jobs at places like BCG and Accenture that had maxed out their H1B visas; finally he got a consulting gig with a small private firm in Seattle. He worked with them for a year, wowed the owner, then moved to India to start his own company and be his own boss. Now his ex-boss outsources some work to him, and his fledgling company is doing well enough to where now he has two guys working for him in a Houston office and he comes for visits about twice a year and to drum up more biz.

When they reduced the H1B visa quotas, and made it difficult for foreign grad students to find jobs once they graduated here, they basically made it that much more easier for these folks to move back to their homelands that are now anyways growing at a pretty fast clip.

09-28-2009, 09:44 AM	#10
bs44MhUW Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 399 Senior Member	Just an anecdote; one of my apartmentmates at Texas A&M was a grad student from India, here to study Industrial Engineering; A&M's industrial engineering program is ranked very highly in the U.S., usually in the top 5. After graduation, he didn't find jobs at places like BCG and Accenture that had maxed out their H1B visas; finally he got a consulting gig with a small private firm in Seattle. He worked with them for a year, wowed the owner, then moved to India to start his own company and be his own boss. Now his ex-boss outsources some work to him, and his fledgling company is doing well enough to where now he has two guys working for him in a Houston office and he comes for visits about twice a year and to drum up more biz. When they reduced the H1B visa quotas, and made it difficult for foreign grad students to find jobs once they graduated here, they basically made it that much more easier for these folks to move back to their homelands that are now anyways growing at a pretty fast clip.
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