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ITAA to Congress: 'Speed Up H-1B Visa Reforms'

David Hubler writes on FCW.com:

The Information Technology Association of America says the government’s system for granting H-1B visas to foreign specialty occupation professionals who want to work in the country for as many as six years "is misfiring and needs the immediate attention of lawmakers."

The ITAA said the government had reached the fiscal 2007 cap on H-1B visa petitions on May 26, nearly four months before the fiscal year begins.

As a result, the ITAA said, overseas technology professionals and other specialists who wish to work in the United States must now wait until next April 1 to file a petition for H-1B employment beginning October 1, 2007, the start of the fiscal 2008.

posted by Fergie @ 6/05/2006 02:16:00 PM