"The USCIS announced today, April 9, 2014, that it had received 172,500 H-1B visa petitions for the 65,000 H-1B regular cap and the 20,000 additional cap for graduates with advanced degrees from US universities. This is much more than the 124,000 H-1B visa...
"Most startups and small firms lack human-resources departments to handle the complex paperwork, and the funds to cover legal expenses associated with hiring someone under the program. Only about 30% of applications for H-1B visas make it past the preliminary...
"[I]t makes absolutely no sense to impose an H-1B cap. Let the market do the job of determining how many H-1Bs can enter the US based on the fluctuating demands of employers. At one point, when the H-1B cap prior to 2003 was 195,000 for a few years, this...
"If a company now wishes to hire a badly needed engineer from abroad, it will need to wait till October 1, 2012 before this person can come on board. It is self evident that the cap hinders the ability of a company to hire skilled and talented workers...
Cite as "AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 11231102 (posted Nov. 23, 2011)" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 CONTACT: George Tzamaras / Jenny Werwa 202-507-7649 / 202-507-7628 gtzamaras@aila.org / jwerwa@aila.org WASHINGTON, DC...