H-1B Visa Controversy Continues
by Bob Drake, Jennifer GoupilGoStructural.com, May 1, 2007
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“As two H-1B reform bills were introduced in Congress, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that as of late Monday afternoon, April 2, 2007, it had received approximately 150,000 cap-subject H-1B petitions, more than enough to meet the congressionally mandated cap of 65,000 for fiscal year 2008. April 2 was the first day that employers could file petitions to employ foreign workers temporarily in specialty occupations such as engineering under the controversial H-1B program. …”
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Tags: 1b_petitions, 1b_program, foreign-workers, IT-worker-visas, uscis
May 9th, 2007 at 6:31 am
I note this piece is posted in an engineering publication
So were are the engineering associations on this issue?
As best as I can determine ONLY IEEE-USA, http://www.programmersguild.org, http://www.aea.org have taken positions on the H-1B controversy
Where are all the rest?
http://www.engineeringpolicy.org, http://www.sefora.org, http://www.asce.org, http://www.aiche.org, http://www.eweek.org,
http://www.nspe.org, http://www.same.org, http://www.swe.org, http://www.ncsea.com, http://www.asme.org etc etc etc
Bob
Silence will NOT protect American engineering
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