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H-1B reforms needed as cap set in 2006

Via the EE Times.

The AeA, the nation's largest high-technology trade association, called for reforms in the current immigration laws in reaction to Friday’s (August 12) announcement by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that the H-1B visa cap has been met for 2006.

The USCIS (Washington, D.C.) said the deadline for H-1B visa petitions was Aug. 10.

Congress set an annual H-1B visa cap at 65,000. Some 6,800 visas are set aside for the U.S.-Chile and U.S.- Singapore Free Trade Acts. As a result, the total amount of visas available for fiscal 2006 is 58,200.

"Today's announcement by the USCIS further solidifies the fact that we need to take a serious look at immigration reform," said John Palafoutas, AeA's senior vice president for domestic policy, in a statement.

posted by Fergie @ 8/12/2005 04:21:00 PM