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		murderfs on July 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in hi... My understanding is that the masters pool is a rather significant improvement in your chances: some Googling finds a random source that claims your chances are 60% higher: https://www.waylit.com/post/what-are-my-chances-of-h1b-lotte...

quantumofalpha on July 18, 2021 [–]

Whereas OPT not being lottery-based is 100%, no? And more importantly, you can pretty much go work wherever you want with it, every tech firm is ok with it, but relatively few bother with H1B today for overseas candidates.

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