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What is the annual and cumulative impact of H1-B foreign worker visas on the U.S. economy?
Has anyone seen an analysis, or even accurate numbers of H1-B visas issued in recent years so we could estimate these numbers?
I know that the supposed "limits" on H1-Bs are regularly exceeded greatly due to the many generous loopholes written into the program...
The 65,000 and 195,000 "limit" was always a farce, since there are many loopholes that allow extra H1-B visas to be issued.
Here are the actual numbers. In 2001, as the American economy and families reeled from the NASDAQ crash then the 9/11 terrorist attacks, over 384,000 new H1-Bs were granted!
http://www.zazona.com/shameH1B/Library/BrainSavers...
Up to 1.3 million H1-Bs were within their 6 year validity period, and 9 out of 10 IT jobs went to foreign workers:
http://www.zazona.com/shameH1B/
By 2004 half of the high tech workers in California had to leave the field, unable to compete with the cheap labor. Now even foreigners here on a work visa complain about lower-priced competitors arriving to take their job!
http://www.zazona.com/shameH1B/Horror_1-...
Various corporate lies about the H1-B program are thoroughly debunked in the many papers here:
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The website below lists H1-B as:
"The H-1B is a nonimmigrant classification used by an alien who will be employed temporarily in a specialty occupation or as a fashion model of distinguished merit and ability." With unemployment what it is, this is definitely something that should be revisited, and soon.
The 2nd link contained the following information:
"In 2000, Congress enacted legislation that temporarily increased the number of H1B visas annually granted to 195,000 through 2003, and increased the fee for an H1B visa to $1,000."
That's 195,000 granted annually. Ye Gods, I had no clue.
Source(s): http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb... http://www.swcouncil.org/public_policy/issue_visa_... - Anonymous1 decade ago
scary stuff immigration.
if it makes you feel better, u.k. gov. still dont even count people in and out, and that makes it hard for local authorities to plan ahead with services.
they will have to get their act together, as it affects national fertility rates as well, and the movements of peoples into europe now are nothing to what they will be once climate change takes hold in africa.