Sentences with phrase «foreign technical workers»

In 1998, these companies successfully lobbied Congress — over the objections of some unions and engineering organizations — to temporarily increase the maximum number of visas for foreign technical workers from 65,000 to 115,000 a year.

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The Democratic candidate for president also attacked the company for last year laying off 250 technology workers after requiring some of them to train their replacements: foreign employees hired on temporary H - 1B visas for highly skilled technical workers through an Indian outsourcing firm.

Additionally, most tech companies rely on foreign workers to fill large swaths of their technical roles, as the U.S. does not currently produce enough domestic talent to match demand.

1 June 2007 In the current discussion about raising the cap on the number of foreign technical and scientific workers, the voices of the Americans most directly affected are going largely unheard.

The committee assembled a panel of expert witnesses — tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa of San Francisco, California; demographics researcher Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City; and Puneet Arora of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is vice-president of the nonprofit organization Immigration Voice — to discuss so - called high - skill immigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and technical work.

But many American scientists and technical professionals blame the H - 1B visa for allowing temporary foreign workers to drive down wages and displace them from jobs.

Complete statistics are not collected on how many temporary foreign scientific and technical workers are in the country, where they work, and whether they leave the country when their visas expire or, as critics suggest, move into the illegal immigrant pool.

In the current discussion about raising the cap on the number of foreign technical and scientific workers, the voices of the Americans most directly affected are going largely unheard

Otto is one of the tens of thousands of foreign scientific and technical workers in the United States on H - 1B visas, which admit nonimmigrant skilled workers for a limited number of years.

However, most in the technical community backed the act because they were convinced that shortages in many fields of science and engineering were real, that foreign workers were paid as well as anyone, and that the economy would suffer unless more foreign professionals were let into the U.S. to work.

The need for more visas to bring in more scientists may be apparent to officials at companies or universities that employ large numbers of technical workers, or at universities that graduate large numbers of foreign students who wish to stay here.

As the nation debates immigration reform, companies and universities that employ foreign scientific and technical personnel are arguing that the answer is yes, and that Congress should significantly increase the number of H - 1B visas, which admit skilled workers to the United States for a limited number of years.

Rekai says often temporary foreign workers are individuals who provide high - level technical services for infrastructure projects such as mines, hydro electric projects, and hospitals perhaps for two or three weeks to service a contract.

The other stream is for temporary foreign workers who have two years experience at a job that requires particular professional or technical skills.