HR Policy Joins Business Community Push for H-1B Visa Programs

Immigration

This week HR Policy Association joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and ten other pro-immigration groups in releasing a comprehensive guide to H-1B visa programs, offering data, arguments, and policy proposals promoting the value of high skilled immigration to the U.S. economy and workforce.  The guide, titled “Understanding and Improving the H-1B Visa Program,” as well as an accompanying fact sheet, are intended as education tools for policymakers, journalists, and the public, as Congress considers reforming our high-skilled immigration system.  The release of the guide follows a well-attended event supported by HR Policy Association on Capitol Hill last week promoting the value of the H-1B program to congressional staff and attending media.  The H-1B visa program made headlines recently when, for the fourth year running, the annual quota of visas for FY 2016 was exhausted in the first week.  Separately, a group of Senators recently called on federal agencies to review the program, following allegations that foreign tech workers were taking jobs from workers at a California company. The Labor Department subsequently declined to pursue an investigation on the basis that it had not received a complaint from an aggrieved party, and did not have reasonable cause for believing the company had violated the rules of the program.