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From April 7th:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that processes H-1B applications, said Tuesday it has received more than 65,000 petitions since April 1. Demand for another 20,000 H-1Bs, allocated to foreign nationals with advanced degrees from U.S. universities, has also outstripped supply. The number of visas is congressionally mandated.
...U.S. businesses clamor for the visas, which typically go to foreign scientists, engineers and programmers. They also go to workers in advertising, architecture and other fields. Program backers say H-1B workers fill jobs for which there aren’t enough qualified Americans, and high-tech companies have lobbied for its expansion.
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Critics argue qualified U.S. workers are being displaced by cheaper foreign hires through the program. They also say some H-1Bs are issued to companies, particularly from India, that send workers to the U.S. to acquire skills and then move them back overseas, a practice that essentially promotes outsourcing of American jobs.
“Reaching the H-1B cap wouldn’t be a big deal if we weren’t giving them away at random to outsourcing companies,” said Russell Harrison, government affairs director for IEEE-USA, a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. The organization says outsourcing firms should be placed at the end of the line for the visas.
Demand for Skilled-Worker Visas Exceeds Annual Supply - WSJ
From 2014:
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage - The Atlantic
This serves two purposes. The first is that it destroys jobs and lowers wages here in the States. Secondly, it allows the propaganda for those seeking to profit off of the public education system.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that processes H-1B applications, said Tuesday it has received more than 65,000 petitions since April 1. Demand for another 20,000 H-1Bs, allocated to foreign nationals with advanced degrees from U.S. universities, has also outstripped supply. The number of visas is congressionally mandated.
...U.S. businesses clamor for the visas, which typically go to foreign scientists, engineers and programmers. They also go to workers in advertising, architecture and other fields. Program backers say H-1B workers fill jobs for which there aren’t enough qualified Americans, and high-tech companies have lobbied for its expansion.
...
Critics argue qualified U.S. workers are being displaced by cheaper foreign hires through the program. They also say some H-1Bs are issued to companies, particularly from India, that send workers to the U.S. to acquire skills and then move them back overseas, a practice that essentially promotes outsourcing of American jobs.
“Reaching the H-1B cap wouldn’t be a big deal if we weren’t giving them away at random to outsourcing companies,” said Russell Harrison, government affairs director for IEEE-USA, a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. The organization says outsourcing firms should be placed at the end of the line for the visas.
Demand for Skilled-Worker Visas Exceeds Annual Supply - WSJ
From 2014:
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage - The Atlantic
This serves two purposes. The first is that it destroys jobs and lowers wages here in the States. Secondly, it allows the propaganda for those seeking to profit off of the public education system.
