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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 13, 2008

A Costly Visa Bill

Forum Column - By Lisa Spiegel - Congress should ease limits on H-1B visas to allow more educated professionals to work in the United States.

FORUM COLUMN

By Lisa Spiegel
This article appears on Page 6.

      An increasing concern for U.S. businesses that employ foreign professionals is how both the companies and the legal immigrants are affected by our country's ever-shifting attitudes toward immigration. The most common visa used by the "professional" foreign national employee is the H-1B visa. The number of these visas issued each year is quite limited and is simply...

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