An updated immigration bill, will be introduced by a group...

An updated immigration bill, will be introduced by a group of cross-party senators, that will make an immense difference to non-immigrants requesting authorization to work in the United States under H-1B visa category (Issues in Science and Technology, 2006). The H-1B debate takes on a symbolic importance because it reveals conflicts and concerns with issues within America about unemployment and extending US control and opportunity. One may ask, â€Å"Why do we have immigration when unemployment is high?† Is there justification for immigration during an economic downturn and high unemployment? What is the legal risk for discrimination for US employees losing jobs to foreign workers? This paper examines the correlation between the unemployment†¦show more content†¦Applicants cannot leave the United States without jeopardizing their renewal application (Bolton, 2004). Although the visa is intended to employ temporary workers, the H-1B visa is often used as a conduit to permanent residency and many H-1B workers are already in the United States when they apply for their visa. Over the years, visa caps have varied, FY 1999 – 115,000, FY 2001 – 195,000, and 65,000 FY 2004 (Dahms Trow, 2005). Consistently over the past years, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the statutory H-1B caps within the first week of the filing period. Of the 124,000 plus petitions the USCIS receives, the petitions are placed in a computer-generated random selection process (lottery) to select the petitions to reach the cap of 65,000. The top 5 professions to obtain H1B visa sponsorship are; IT Programmers / Developers / Analysts, Applications and Systems Engineers , Financial Analysts, Market Research Analysts, Business / Management Analysts. Typically, the H1-B is a guest worker program targeted mainly at high-tech professionals. As senators continue to work on composing bipartisan legislation to thoroughly amend the US immigration laws, one of the main issues they will try to determine is how to manage future movement of educated temporary and permanent immigrantsShow MoreRelatedMedicare Policy Analysis447966 Words   |  1792 Pages Mr. PALLONE, and Mr. ANDREWS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, the Budget, Rules, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To provide affordable, qualityRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesupdated: April 26, 2016 Logical Reasoning Bradley H. Dowden Philosophy Department California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA 95819 USA ii iii Preface Copyright  © 2011-14 by Bradley H. Dowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That is, you are free to share, copy, distribute, store, and transmit all or any part of the work under the following conditions:Read MoreManaging Information Technology (7th Edition)239873 Words   |  960 PagesStart-up Survival Story CASE STUDY II-6 Rock Island Chocolate Company, Inc.: Building a Social Networking Strategy CASE STUDY III-1 Managing a Systems Development Project at Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc. CASE STUDY III-2 A Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company CASE STUDY III-3 ERP Purchase Decision at Benton Manufacturing Company, Inc. CASE STUDY III-4 The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project CASE STUDY III-5 NIBCO’s â€Å"Big Bang†: