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How Many H-1B Workers? Counts Vary
San Jose Mercury News (CA) (07/15/07) O'Brien, Chris
The debate over H-1B visas continues to become more complicated due to a lack of publicly available data on the program. "There's no good data," says Lynn Shotwell, executive director of the American Council on International Personnel. "We know demand well exceeds supply, but we don't really know what the demand is." The confusion over the numbers is a result of the complex nature of the H-1B program and the lack of any hard data on who is using the visas and for which jobs is frustrating to people on every side of the debate. Visa applications are processed through three different government agencies. A company submits an H-1B application to the U.S. Department of Labor. The application is screened and then passed to the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Applications approved by the immigration service are sent to the U.S. Department of State, which issues the visa. Technology companies say there is a shortage of skilled workers in the United States, and the increase in H-1B applications mirrors the increase in general hiring practices. Shotwell, however, says the total number of visa applications, which reached 119,193 applications for the available 65,000 visas that will be awarded for the fiscal year starting in October 2007, is misleading because companies often file multiple applications for a single person, or large blanket applications because companies want to submit as many applications as possible before the cap is reached. Attempts to collect information from the government agencies involved in the application process generally receive responses that vary from non-disclosure statements to lists of the number of new and renewal visas, but not the jobs the visas were issued for.
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How is it doing in other countries?
There are not many people are going to my country for tech job for some reason..
That's why I say competition there is extremelly easy compared to the U.S haha.. it's better! Why? So that you don't get bored
07-17-2007, 12:46 AM
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