H1-B without limits for all masters
The US Senate is considering the possibility of changing immigration legislation in such a way as to lift the restriction on issuing H1-B work visas and green cards for those foreigners who have a master’s degree from a US or foreign university. Foreign diplomas will be accepted for engineers, scientists, specialists in technological fields and natural sciences. Of course, for programmers too.
Changes to legislation can be made if the Senate passes a law called “Skilled Worker Immigration and Fairness Act”, which Senators Lieberman and Hagel submitted yesterday. This law also provides for an increase in the H-1B visa issuance limit by 20% per year, from the current 65,000 to 180,000.
Today, there is only a quota of 20,000 visas for those who did not fall into the normal quota of H-1B, but has a high academic degree from an American university. The new law extends this quota to infinity.
American industry is experiencing an acute shortage of highly skilled labor, which threatens the competitiveness of American enterprises. The shortage of personnel is so acute that this year the number of applications for H1-B visa exceeded the quota on the second day of receiving applications. The level of fraud and fraud in this case exceeds all permissible limits.
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To protect American workers from the influx of foreign labor, the new bill contains a number of restrictions. For example, a company does not have the right to recruit from abroad more than 50% of its staff (this restriction applies to companies whose staff exceeds 50 people). In addition, penalties for violating the conditions of the H1-B program will be raised to between $ 2,000 and $ 10,000. The most active "importers" of the workforce will be checked annually by state auditors.
The new bill has already caused an enthusiastic response from Microsoft and other major IT companies.
via News.com
Changes to legislation can be made if the Senate passes a law called “Skilled Worker Immigration and Fairness Act”, which Senators Lieberman and Hagel submitted yesterday. This law also provides for an increase in the H-1B visa issuance limit by 20% per year, from the current 65,000 to 180,000.
Today, there is only a quota of 20,000 visas for those who did not fall into the normal quota of H-1B, but has a high academic degree from an American university. The new law extends this quota to infinity.
American industry is experiencing an acute shortage of highly skilled labor, which threatens the competitiveness of American enterprises. The shortage of personnel is so acute that this year the number of applications for H1-B visa exceeded the quota on the second day of receiving applications. The level of fraud and fraud in this case exceeds all permissible limits.
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To protect American workers from the influx of foreign labor, the new bill contains a number of restrictions. For example, a company does not have the right to recruit from abroad more than 50% of its staff (this restriction applies to companies whose staff exceeds 50 people). In addition, penalties for violating the conditions of the H1-B program will be raised to between $ 2,000 and $ 10,000. The most active "importers" of the workforce will be checked annually by state auditors.
The new bill has already caused an enthusiastic response from Microsoft and other major IT companies.
via News.com
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/8458/
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