Immigration Law

Will it be more difficult to obtain H-1B visas next year?

By David Carson

“The visa squeeze leaves companies scrambling for ways to retain valuable job candidates, including using other types of visas and temporary overseas assignments. Google Inc., which filed more than 300 H-1B applications this year, says it will send 70 new hires who didn’t get visas to overseas offices until it can try again next year. Many of the Intel Corp. job candidates who failed to get H-1Bs will stay in school and try for the visa next year while Intel holds open the jobs…”

Wall Street Journal, Firms Get Creative To Work Around Visa Bottlenecks (08/27/2007)

Full post as published by VisaMap :: Immigration Portal on August 27, 2007 (boomark / email).