{"id":1627,"date":"2006-05-26T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2006\/05\/h1b-cap-increase-115000\/"},"modified":"2006-05-26T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T15:08:00","slug":"h1b-cap-increase-115000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2006\/05\/h1b-cap-increase-115000\/","title":{"rendered":"H1B cap to increase to 115,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

More Desis on their way to the US!!<\/p>\n

The US Senate has approved a landmark immigration reform bill that would give citizenship to millions of illegal persons and double the number of H1-B visas from the present 65,000, a move that would greatly benefit thousands of Indian software professionals.<\/p>\n

The Bill passed on Thursday provides for doubling the H1-B visas from the present 65,000 annually to about 115,000 and with a 20 per cent increase on an annual basis.<\/p>\n

Various software and technology companies like Microsoft and Intel have been pressurising the US government by threatening to move jobs abroad if it does not raise the cap on H1-B visas and allow more skilled workers into the country.<\/p>\n

In the version that cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee was also a new student visa classification for high tech studies.<\/p>\n

However, the House version of the Bill has nothing on the H1-B visa and according to analysts it is most likely to be neglected when legislators get down to the negotiations at the conference committee stage.<\/p>\n

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More Desis on their way to the US!!<\/p>\n

The US Senate has approved a landmark immigration reform bill that would give citizenship to millions of illegal persons and double the number of H1-B visas from the present 65,000, a move that would greatly benefit thousands of Indian software professionals.<\/p>\n

The Bill passed on Thursday provides for doubling the H1-B visas from the present 65,000 annually to about 115,000 and with a 20 per cent increase on an annual basis.<\/p>\n

Various software and technology companies like Microsoft and Intel have been pressurising the US government by threatening to move jobs abroad if it does not raise the cap on H1-B visas and allow more skilled workers into the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,33,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-careers","category-india","category-us"],"yoast_head":"\nH1B cap to increase to 115,000<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More Desis on their way to the US!! 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