At no cost to taxpayers, an immediate solution to provide relief for the H-1B category would be to recapture unused H-1B visas from previous fiscal years, exempt U.S. educated workers with advanced degrees from the H-1B cap, and raise the cap to 100, 000, providing for a market-based escalator if the cap is reached during the previous fiscal year.
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Like many cellular technologies, mobile TV standards differ by region, forming an alphabet soup of acronyms: wireless technology company Qualcomm 's (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ) MediaFLO in the U.S., DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) in Europe, T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in Korea, and ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in Japan and Brazil.
While former H-1B visa holders comprise less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, 60 percent of the finalists had parents who entered the U.S. on H-1B visas, which are generally the only practical way to hire skilled foreign nationals.
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Gates also argues that the U.S. should raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas for skilled foreign nationals so that the U.S. can retain the high-tech workers it trains at its universities.
That happened in the case of L-1 and H-1B petitions at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
As of 2008, one-third of all Silicon Valley companies were founded or co-founded by Indian or Chinese nationals who were able to legally work in the U.S. with an H-1B visa or green card.
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Yet finding jobs for these highly-qualified workers in the U.S. is almost impossible due to H-1B regulations.
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Like many cellular technologies, mobile TV standards differ by region, forming an alphabet soup of acronyms: wireless technology company Qualcomm 's MediaFLO in the U.S., DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) in Europe, T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in Korea, and ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in Japan and Brazil.
U.S. employers want H-1B professionals because they are job creators.
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The bad news is that these numbers clearly show that U.S. employers need more H-1B employees to compete in the global marketplace.
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Briefly, the H-1B program allows U.S. companies to hire skilled foreign workers.
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The U.S. restricts the number of H-1B visas it issues in any given year to 85, 000 under two different caps that are set by Congress.
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The U.S. employer must pay the H-1B worker the greater of the actual compensation paid other employees in the same job or the prevailing wage for that occupation.
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For those who argue that H-1B workers take jobs from U.S. workers, this is just simply not the case.
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At issue in the U.S. are high-skill worker visas called H-1B that have been dubbed the "outsourcing visa" by critics who say the system allows companies to bring in cheaper tech workers from abroad instead of hiring Americans.
"By 2007, most U.S. major markets are expected to have DVB-H infrastructure built out and ready for deployment, " the Alliance members said.
Under a 2010 policy memorandum, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services prohibits approving an H-1B petition for founders of companies.
H-P has said it was cooperating with U.S. officials and German officials, who were carrying out their own investigation.
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The new complicated form undermines Congressional intent for the H-1B process, which is to provide U.S. employers relatively quick access to foreign talent without wasteful bureaucratic reviews.
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Given the long waits for green cards, an H-B visa is usually required if a U.S. employer wants to hire a skilled foreign national from a U.S. university or abroad.
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Several studies have shown H-1B visa holders are paid comparable to U.S. workers with similar experience (Government Accountability Office, Magnus Lofstrom, and others) and employers must pay thousands of dollars in legal and government fees per H-1B.
In many cases future H-1B visa holders have already been in the U.S. as international students.
The H-1B status is the principal vehicle used by U.S. employers to employ foreign graduates from U.S. universities.
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But many U.S. members of Congress contend India is misusing the H-1B system to bring in fairly low-skilled employees, denying those places to higher-skilled workers that U.S. firms want to hire.
While some argue the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is too lenient in approving H-1B petitions, employers and immigration attorneys would say such claims have no relationship to the reality of the immigration process.
For U.S. companies and foreign candidates alike, the process of getting an H-1B begins far in advance of the April 1 filing date.
Meanwhile, ahead of their coming harvest, many farmers are turning to a temporary agricultural visa, known as the H-2A program, which allows growers to bring workers into the U.S. for a short period.
President Obama has been in favor of granting more H-1B visas, and loosening policies that would allow foreign graduates to stay on and work in the U.S. Many multinational tech companies, including Microsoft, have called for more H-1B visas to be issued to fill gaps in the skilled labor pool.
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