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URGENT! H-1B NUMBERS COULD DOUBLE! CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSONAL REPRESENATIVE TODAY! Print E-mail
Friday, 21 March 2008
A bill introduced last week by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords would double the number of H-1B visas that allow immigrants to legally work in the United States.

The Tucson Democrat's bill, known as the Innovation Employment Act, calls for increasing the limit of H-1B visas from 65,000 to year to 130,000 a year. The bill will eliminate the 20,000-a-year cap on visas for foreign graduate or doctoral- program graduates who study science, technology, engineering or math so this category will have an unlimited number of visas. Another bill submitted by U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, would expand the annual visa limit even further to 195,000 for fiscal years 2008 and 2009." Arizona Republic, Mar. 19, 2008. For more information on the bill, or to read the full text please visit:

 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.5630.  

 

To call your congressional representative please visit:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/officials/congress/?lvl=C

Type in your zip code to find which member of congress represents your district.  Once you have your congressman on the phone please tell them about the hardship to American businesses because of an inability to obtain the services of qualified H-1B workers.

 
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