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As Dumb As We Wanna Be: U.S. H1-B Visa Policy And The "Brain Blocking" Of Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
As Dumb As We Wanna Be: U.S. H1-B Visa Policy And The "Brain Blocking" Of Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
Jeffrey L Gower
U.S. immigration policy created the H1-B visa program in 1990 for educated skilled foreign workers, and has manipulated the cap on several occasions. Limits were as high as 195,000 as recently as 2003, but was reduced to 65,000 by 2009. The result of the lowering of the H1-B visa cap placed a hardship both on domestic high-technology businesses, who could not get sufficient quantities of desired workers to fill employment slots, but to the country as well with reduced opportunities to recruit potential educated citizens and unintentionally produces a reduction of overall national brain gain effects that result from the …
"As Dumb As We Wanna Be: U.S. H-1b Visa Policy And The 'Brain Blocking' Of Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
"As Dumb As We Wanna Be: U.S. H-1b Visa Policy And The 'Brain Blocking' Of Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
Jeffrey L Gower
American technology firms must employ foreign specialty professionals through the H1-B system administered by the U.S. Immigration Service. Most applications for H1-B visas are from firms in the high technology sector, and the visas are granted through a lottery system. Chinese technology professionals are the second-highest recipients of these visas. The current total national H1-B visa allowance for 2008 and 2009 was capped at 65,000, with an additional 20,000 visas reserved for holders of Master's degrees or higher, down from 195,000 visas in the early 1990s. Computer software design firms and high technology application firms argue for an abolishment of …
The Unintended Consequenses Of Low H-1b Visa Caps: Brain Blocking, Brain Diversion, And Racial Discrimination Against Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
The Unintended Consequenses Of Low H-1b Visa Caps: Brain Blocking, Brain Diversion, And Racial Discrimination Against Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
Jeffrey L Gower
American business interests face increasing difficulties as they attempt to compete against global technology-based industries. As the U.S. educational system produces interests face increasing difficulties as they attempt to compete fewer technology workers, many firms look to foreign countries such as India, China, or other Asian countries that have an abundance of skilled professionals. The U.S. Congress created the H-1B visa program in 1990 for educated skilled foreign workers, and manipulated the yearly cap on several occasions. Limits were as high as 195,000 as recently as 2003, but were reduced to 65,000 by 2009. The result of placing a low …
The Unintended Consequences Of Low H-1b Visa Caps: Brain Blocking, Brain Diversion, And Racial Discrimination Against Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
The Unintended Consequences Of Low H-1b Visa Caps: Brain Blocking, Brain Diversion, And Racial Discrimination Against Asian Technology Professionals, Jeffrey L. Gower
Jeffrey L Gower
American business interests face increasing difficulties as they attempt to compete against global technology-based industries. As the U.S. educational system produces interests face increasing difficulties as they attempt to compete fewer technology workers, many firms look to foreign countries such as India, China, or other Asian countries that have an abundance of skilled professionals. The U.S. Congress created the H-1B visa program in 1990 for educated skilled foreign workers, and manipulated the yearly cap on several occasions. Limits were as high as 195,000 as recently as 2003, but were reduced to 65,000 by 2009. The result of placing a low …