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21,000 H-1B VISAS STILL UNCLAIMED

By Greg Siskind

USCIS announced that as of today, only 44,000 of the 65,000 H-1B visas available for fiscal year 2010 have been claimed. That is only slightly fewer than they announced had been used at the end of the first week in April. So much for the argument that H-1Bs are cheap labor that employers use to displace more expensive American workers. In fact, H-1B workers - when you factor in legal costs, government filing fees and assorted other expenses - are usually much MORE expensive than their US counterparts.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).