Homeland Security Exceeds Work Visa Limit
The Homeland Security Department approved 10,000 more applications for visas for high-tech and specialty workers than Congress permitted for this fiscal year.
The mistake was made with H1-B visas, available to foreigners with a bachelor’s degree or higher who want to fill U.S. jobs in architecture, engineering, medicine, biotechnology and computer programming.
Only 65,000 H1-B visas are supposed to be given out this fiscal year, although Congress let the department make exempt from the limit 20,000 foreigners with graduate degrees from American universities.
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