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Entrepreneur, Jan, 2004 by Stephen Barlas

HIGH-TECH COMPANIES THAT DEPEND ON THE H-1B VISA program to fill engineering and technical jobs, with highly trained professionals born abroad but often educated in the United States, face preciplous drop in the number of foreign workers they can employ. Congress twice raised the ceiling on H-1B visas, to a high of 195,000 in 2000. But the American Competiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act, which bumped up the ceiling the second, time, specified the ceiling would plummet to 65,000 for fiscal 2004.

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STEPHEN BARLASS Is a freelance business reporter who covers the Washington beat for 15 magazines.

Business Services Industry

Numbers game

Entrepreneur, Jan, 2004 by Stephen Barlas

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