A federal district court denied an injunction request by technology workers under President Obama’s guest-worker program for spouses of H-1B visa workers. The plaintiffs, Save Jobs USA, said citizens would lose out jobs to the new guest workers but Judge Tanya Chutkan denied them an injunction, saying plaintiffs could not demonstrate the guest workers would…
If all had gone according to plan, German Coppola would have been earning $130,000 this year as the senior vice president of sales and marketing at a U.S.-based data-capture company. Instead, the Spaniard’s application for an H-1B visa to work in the U.S. — along with tens of thousands of others’ — wasn’t even considered.…
WASHINGTON, DC: H-1B visas have insignificant impact on new patents in the short term and also results in lower wages, according to a new study authored by economists from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.…
All 85,000 H-1B visas for 2016 are spoken for, snapped up in less than seven days in an application process that began April 1. Congress allotted 60,000 regular H-1Bs for fiscal year 2016, and 25,000 special visas for applicants with advanced degrees. The number of applicants in both categories exceeded the congressional caps, so U.S.…
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…
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…
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…