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H-1B Arrivals are Already DOUBLE the Legal Cap! US Law Enforcement Failure to Enforce the Cap means at least 65,000 EXCESS Arrivals per Year! by Kate The H1B (high tech worker) visa cap is currently 65,000 per year, and corporations like Microsoft have been lobbying hard for Congress to at least double this number. Now we find out that the US has not been enforcing this cap and the true numbers approved are already double the cap! Un-freaking-believeable! Is Senator Cornyn aware that his goal to double the 65,000 per year arrival cap has already been met and exceeded? Does he prefer to double the (more accurate) 116,927 (2005 figure) or the 130,497 (2004 figure) of H-1B arrivals per year to guarantee at least 260,000 more US I.T. employee mass-LAYOFFS per year?
According to the Lou Dobbs transcript from January 26, 2007 transcript "The United States citizenship and immigration service finally released its report to Congress on the H1B guest worker visa program....The number of H1B visas an existing guest worker program for skilled workers is capped by Congress at 65,000. Another 20,000 foreign students who graduate from American universities with advanced degrees are also eligible for the visa. ...That's 85,000 visas a year. But the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service approved 116,927 applications in 2005. It approved 130,497 in 2004. ...The reports in 2004 and 2005 were not released until November 20th of last year. A release date that activists find disturbing. |
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