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More Visas For Foreign Workers: Quota Raised to Fill High-Tech Jobs

Washington Post

Tuesday 23 November 2004, 9:42 am
Keywords: News Articles

Associated Press

Congress is letting employers hire 20,000 more foreign high-tech workers under a special visa program after businesses reached the annual ceiling on the first day of the government's fiscal year.

The popular H-1B visas are granted to foreigners in specialty professions such as architecture, engineering, medicine, biotechnology and computer programming. Under the program, employers must pay foreign workers the prevailing wage for their job fields and show that qualified U.S. workers are not being passed over.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6204-2004Nov22.html

Uh, hello? Qualified US workers not being passed over?