Libbey Tucker and Sharif Ahmed are waiting to find out if they won the lottery, but not the multimillion-dollar payday kind. They also have more at stake than a few dollars invested at the local convenience store. Tucker, who oversees information technology for the city of Chesterfield, is waiting to hear whether she can keep…
Temporary H1B visas do not encourage brilliant engineers to stay in the U.S. and continue innovation and job creation. Jack O’Toole’s guest commentary (“Modernizing visa system…” April 16) endorsed the Hatch Immigration Innovation Act, which has also been endorsed by Sen. Kelly Ayotte. He points out the value of keeping the brilliant foreign engineers from…
Seattle — To ready herself for a job hunt, Niyati Desai has started updating her résumé and reaching out to professional contacts. In her native India, Desai, 32, managed marketing accounts for global companies such as Procter & Gamble and Prudential. But she worries about the eight-year gap in her employment history. “No matter how…
When we look at a map to find a path to our intended destination, we look at various possible routes. We look for the one that will get us to our destination the fastest, and with as little difficulty and uncertainty as possible. The terrain of immigration law in the United States can be complex…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Companies are seeking more foreign workers than ever before to fill highly skilled jobs in technology and other industries, but the United States will grant visas to just a fraction of them in a lottery that began this week. Anxious to bump up those visa limits, a bipartisan campaign is seeking to make…
Overall, the USCIS received 233,000 H-1B visa applications this year. The agency will grant 65,000 of them. However, several groups noted that the lack of H-1B visas is limiting the potential for greater global competitiveness in the US. Top Jobs For STEM: Big Data, IT Product Management The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced…
(Reuters) – Applications for H-1B visas allowing U.S. businesses to hire foreign workers in science,engineering and computer programming totaled a record 233,00 for fiscal 2016, according to government figures released on Monday. A maximum of 85,000 of the work visas, including 20,000 for holders of master’s degrees, are available each year under limits set by Congress, despite years of heavy lobbying…
The United States is on pace to legally admit 10 million immigrants over the next decade, an amount equal to the current populations of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles and St. Louis combined, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). And that’s just legal immigration, which doesn’t count the addition of illegal immigrants, including…
Every year on April 1, businesses submit applications on behalf of their foreign workers for temporary employment visas. If the number of applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services exceeds the 85,000 quota within the first week, visas are granted through a lottery system. Last year, there were a total of 515,605 Labor Condition…
For the third year in a row, the entire year’s allocation of H-1B visas for skilled workers were snapped up by employers within a week of being made available. Hopefuls who missed the window will now have to test their odds in a lottery, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Congress set the cap for H-1B visas…