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IEEE Head Questions Expanding H-1B Program
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| Last Edited | RP Mar 21, 2006 01:57pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| News Date | Monday, March 20, 2006 09:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Despite numerous government reports pointing out major flaws and weaknesses of the H-1B visa program, Congress is considering increasing the annual H-1B visa cap by at least 50,000 without strengthening safeguards to protect foreign and domestic technology workers.
The reports reveal “significant weaknesses in the H-1B program that must be corrected to ensure that U.S workers are not adversely affected and H-1B workers are not exploited,” said IEEE-USA president Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr., in a March 15 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. “As the administration concluded last year, the program has major flaws that leave it vulnerable to fraud and abuse.”
Wyndrum also questioned why Congress is considering increasing the H-1B visa cap from 65,000 to 115,000, and include an automatic escalator mechanism for future years, when current legislative provisions would expand permanent admissions of skilled foreign professionals. Among the proposals is a new student visa (F-4) that leads to a green card for foreign nationals pursuing advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at U.S. colleges.
Another proposal would expand employment-based immigrant admissions visas from 140,000 to 290,000; exclude immediate family members from the limit; recapture unused immigrant visas from prior years and exempt advanced-degree professionals from the cap. |
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