[jsfg_cinti] H-1B hearing: Companies say foreign workers needed

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H-1B hearing: Companies say foreign workers needed
Visas for foreign IT workers will drop by two-thirds for 2004 unless Congress 
acts
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service September 17, 2003    
  
  WASHINGTON -- The yearly number of foreign visas for IT workers and 
professionals coming into the U.S. will drop by two-thirds for 2004 unless the 
U.S. Congress acts, and an immigration lawyer group came to Congress Tuesday 
asking that the cap on H-1B visas not be allowed to slide back to pre-dot-com 
boom levels. 
Representatives of Intel Corp. and Ingersoll-Rand Corp. also argued that H-1B 
visas are needed to fill technical positions where they can't find qualified 
U.S. candidates, but one panelist told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that 
the visa program is taking money from the pockets of U.S. workers. 

"The unemployment rate of electrical and electronic engineers has reached an 
all-time high," said John Steadman, president-elect of the Institute of 
Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA. "This translates to hundreds of 
thousands of unemployed U.S. engineers. These are people who are degreed and 
capable U.S. engineers." Unemployment among electrical and electronic engineers 
reached 7 percent in early 2003, Steadman said. 

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