Warning on High-Tech Visa Applications

WASHINGTON -- Immigration officials expect to be overwhelmed with more high-tech worker visa applications than they can grant when the application period opens April 1. So they warned businesses Wednesday not to try to game the system by submitting multiple applications of H-1B visas, intended for skilled foreign workers, for the same employee. Last April 1, 120,000 applications came in, nearly twice the annual limit of 65,000. As a result, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services conducted a lottery for the first time. High-tech businesses do not like that because it means they might not get their first-choice workers. Read more...

Posted by Editor at March 20, 2008 10:15 AM