Sentences with phrase «skilled immigrant visa»
The H1B highly skilled immigrant visa is limited to 65,000, with an additional 20,000 for holders of advanced degrees — not much when you consider that U.S. universities pump out 1 science graduate for every five China does.
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FWD.us also fired back against proposals to limit programs like the H - 1B visa that allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers, calling any plan to «radically restrict pathways» for skilled immigrants to come to the U.S. «just wrong.»
These companies hope to see an expanded H - 1B visa program, the creation of visas for immigrants who show proof of VC backing, and a clearer path to citizenship for high - skilled workers who are here illegally.
Allow H - 1B holders to change jobs without losing their visa status and being forced to leave the country immediately — a condition that enforces lower salaries for H - 1B holders and encourages skilled immigrant arbitrage and tech «body shop» abuses.
Harvard and Duke University professor Vivek Wadwha, himself an immigrant entrepreneur from India, warned in a Congressional hearing, «The U.S. is giving an unintentional gift to China and India by causing highly educated and skilled workers, frustrated by long waits for visas, to return home.»
The annual cap of 85,000 H - 1B visas for high - skilled workers applies only to immigrants who work at companies.
A bunch of other Silicon Valley types are planning to launch a well - funded political - advocacy group to lobby for more visas for skilled immigrants.
But in recent years, many H - 1B visas have gone to temporary immigrants who lacked special skills and displaced American workers from jobs.
Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.
Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).
There are a ton of statistics that show we have skilled students out of college in the STEM fields that can't find jobs because many are held by lower paid legal immigrants and visa holders.»
In keeping with «the Administration's continuing commitment to attract and retain highly skilled immigrants,» says a DHS statement, one of the rule changes would allow H - 4 dependent spouses of H - 1B visa holders who are in process of applying for permanent residency to obtain work authorization.
Yesterday, they reintroduced the I - Squared Act, which would, among other things, increase the number of visas and residency permits available to immigrants with technical skills and allow their spouses to work.
Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).
His specialties include EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 (Multinational Manager or Executive; Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).
Skilled in preparing immigrant / non-immigrant visa petitions including but not limited to temporary / permanent employment and business based visas.