Senate panel increases H-1B visa limit
Grant Gross writes in InfoWorld:
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved an extra 30,000 foreign worker visas for 2006 under a visa program popular with many technology companies, but the increase was halved from an earlier committee proposal.
The committee on Thursday approved legislation that would expand the cap on H-1B skilled-worker visas from 65,000 to 95,000 in the U.S. government's fiscal year 2006. The legislation, supported by several IT vendors, expands the H-1B cap by "recapturing" unused visas from past years going back to the early 1990s.
The extra visas would be available in years when the H-1B cap has been reached, as it has for fiscal year 2006.
A Judiciary Committee draft proposal circulated in the past week would have allowed up to 60,000 more H-1B visas a year, but Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, pushed for a smaller increase. A Feinstein spokesman wasn't immediately available Friday.
posted by Fergie @ 10/21/2005 02:50:00 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home