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Over the last five months, members of both houses of Congress have proposed legislation to tighten H-1B regulations. These bills propose to:

  • reduce the number H-1B visas available each year (from 65,000 to 50,000);
  • bar employers from using the H-1B program to sponsor foreign workers within two years of a layoff, furlough, or employees strikes;
  • bar employers from using the H-1B program to bring foreign workers to the U.S. for training, then transfer them overseas and lay off the U.S. workers who trained them; and
  • require employers to make a good-faith effort to recruit U.S. workers before filing H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers.

One bill also proposes to eliminate the Optional Practical Training program, which allows foreign nationals who graduate from a U.S.-degree program to work in the U.S. for up to one year after graduation.

The H-1B visa category is the most popular nonimmigrant work visa category in the U.S. under which employers sponsor skilled, professional workers for employment. This is largely because it allows foreign graduates in the U.S. for university undergraduate and graduate education to work in the U.S. after graduation. H-1B regulations stipulate that to qualify for an H-1B visa, the employer must have a professional position that requires at least a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a specific field, and that the candidate meets that requirement.

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