A bipartisan group of four Senators introduced the Immigration Innovation...
A bipartisan group of four Senators introduced the Immigration Innovation Act Tuesday, which would raise the cap on H1-B visas from 65,000 to 150,000 immigrants per year. The legislation was lauded by members of technology industry, who said it would…
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permit more skilled immigrants to stay and work in the U.S. CTIA said in a news release Tuesday that if enacted, the bill “will alleviate this problem and help the United States to remain the world’s leading wireless market.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce believes the bill “makes critical reforms to our legal immigration system that would, among other things, establish a market-based system to increase and decrease the allocation of H-1B visa numbers,” said Bruce Josten, the Chamber’s executive vice president-government affairs. The bill is a “solid step in ensuring that the U.S. remains the global center of innovation,” said Ed Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association. It does so by addressing both the “short-term problems of visas and green cards, and investing in the longer-term issue of STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] education and training,” he said. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said the bill offers a “common sense solution to the high skill immigration issue by allowing companies access to the skills they need, while also assisting American workers in developing the talents necessary to better meet those needs,” said the group’s President, Robert Atkinson, in a news release. Telecommunications Industry Association President Grant Seiffert said in a separate news release the group “supports efforts to increase the allotment of H-1B visas and to improve STEM education efforts in the United States.” The sponsors are Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.