Industry Pushes Tech Worker Issue
BR Industry Pushes Tech Worker Issue By Neil Munro Staff Writer Because of high demand from industry, Congress will likely have to refight the 1996 battle over caps on the import of foreign technology experts, said Harris Miller, president of the Washington-based Information Technology Association of America. The immediate problem for the ITAA's members is that the companies have already used up the industry's annual quota of 65,000 immigrants, said Mi
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Industry Pushes Tech Worker Issue
By Neil MunroStaff Writer
Because of high demand from industry, Congress will likely have to refight the 1996 battle over caps on the import of foreign technology experts, said Harris Miller, president of the Washington-based Information Technology Association of America.
The immediate problem for the ITAA's members is that the companies have already used up the industry's annual quota of 65,000 immigrants, said Miller. For the next four weeks, industry will not get the needed H1-B work visas for the roughly 5,500 foreign workers it had hoped to hire by Oct. 1, he said.
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