INTRODUCTION
The H1B visa is the primary US work visa/work permit for professional foreign workers in "specialty occupations". This visa is typically used for professions (Table 1) such as Computing & IT, Telecoms, HealthCare, Finance & Accounting, Teaching, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Sales, Management, and Engineering; and it is designed for individuals who have high degree of specialized knowledge, which means having either the equivalent of a US bachelor's degree or at least 12 years of high-level work experience.
The H1B visa program has been a hot topic for several years. The issue is constantly boiling over because of a dramatic rise in overseas outsourcing, which is costing thousands of US workers their jobs, and even the presidential election campaign.
At the same time American citizens complain that H1B workers take jobs from or cause harm to American workers, multinationals allege that there is a lack of American high-skilled professionals.
In order to harmonize......
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