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Grace M - October 22, 2009 - 0 comments
For this to happen, the immigration lawmakers need to make a few amendments not just in the visa rules but also to make some reforms in the green card process. By doing so, it would become quite easier for people holding temporary visa to become permanent residents of United States.
It is being argued by the Tech firms in U.S. that almost all the European nations have favorable rules for employing workers from abroad, a fact which places United States at a disadvantageous position. Moreover, another reason argued by these firms is that tech workforce from abroad is left with no option but work for domestic engineers.
Reaffirming their efforts to ease conditions for recruitment of skilled workforce from abroad, Bo Cooper, an attorney and a former senior officer in the U.S. immigration bureaucracy said, “We are catching up to do.”
Presently, an adviser to a lobby of high-tech and business interests, Complete America, Cooper added, “Other countries have realized that it’s in the national interest to bring talented people into your economy.”
As of now, employers in the U.S. can employ workers from abroad temporarily under the H-1B visa program. Also, there is a limit on the number of foreign workers being granted such visas.
According to a press release by Complete America, the number of applicants seeking H-1B visas had not even reached the figure of 65,000, the annual limit of H-1B visas issued by the government. There have been just 46,000 H-1B visas applications this year.
