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H1B visa applications flood USINS
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was flooded with H1B visa applications Tuesday. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin stated "Eight of the top 10 companies seeking H-1B visas in the last round were foreign companies." The foreign companies, by and large, have taken control of the H-1B process.
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Subject: Please Stop the Abuse of H1B Visas
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I am an Information Technology worker who is concerned about the misuse of HIB visas. I strongly urge you to help stop the abuse of H1B visas by foreign companies.
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According to the National Journal's Congress Daily AM, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin and House Judiciary ranking member Lamar Smith both are considering limiting the H1B visa use to U.S. companies. "Eight of the top 10 companies seeking H-1B visas in the last round were foreign companies," Durbin said Tuesday. "The foreign companies, by and large, have taken control of the H-1B process. For example, the largest Indian companies are getting thousands of H-1B visas. They then, for a fee, will place engineers from India in American jobs for three years or six years and then, for another fee, place them back in India to compete with American companies. Trust me, that is not what we have in mind with H-1B visas."
Employers still continue to proclaim a labor shortage while Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke says that the American economy could grow smaller in 2008, hinting that we would be- if we weren't already- in a recession. Further more, Money magazine reports that economists surveyed by Briefing.com are forecasting a loss of 50,000 jobs from the nation's payrolls in April. If correct, that would mark the third straight month of job declines in the country, making the unemployment rate jump to 5.0% from 4.8% in February.
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