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Senate Immigration Bill Raises H1-B Visa Limit

Grant Gross writes on NetworkWorld:

Flying mostly under the radar in a controversial immigration reform bill that passed the Senate last week was a provision that would raise the cap on the number of high-skilled foreign workers allowed into the United States.

Some tech companies praised the wide-ranging immigration bill, which passed the Senate Thursday, because it would raise the cap on the hotly debated H-1B program, often used by U.S. technology companies to hire foreign IT workers. The bill would increase the annual H-1B cap from 65,000 to 115,000, but many Republicans in the House of Representatives have criticized other provisions in the bill, saying its too soft on illegal immigration.

posted by Fergie @ 5/31/2006 08:42:00 AM