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...work visa if not lift the cap entirely.To many highly-educated professionals around the globe, America has long been a beacon of opportunity. Unfortunately, the United States has become a victim of its own popularity: last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reported receiving 133,000 applications for H-1Bs on the first possible day, filling the cap of 65,000 more than two times over. Those lucky enough to have submitted an application will be entered in a lottery. But everyone else—including thousands of college seniors across the country who have yet to complete their graduation...
This meant that international students who had secured jobs in America were suddenly unable to work. Student visas expire a year after graduation, while H-1Bs begin in October. So students who graduated last June but failed to get an H-1B last fiscal year—about 40 members of the Class of 2006—will have to leave the country between next June and October. Consequently, many employers simply will not hire an international if she fails to get a visa immediately...
...which they were educated.Graduation dates at many colleges in the U.S. make attaining an H-1B especially difficult, because by the time students can provide proof of graduation, the quota is likely to be filled. This was the issue facing Harvard students last year, as the quota for H-1Bs was filled on May 26 (about two weeks before graduation), leaving many international Harvard students intending to work in the U.S. up the proverbial creek without a paddle.One glimmer of hope for these students is the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which allows international students to work...
...visas to 115,000 and would double the length of OPT eligibility to 24 months. But according to the Library of Congress, no major action has been taken on this measure—or its companion House bill—since June.The current 65,000-visa cap on H-1Bs is reached at a different point each year, so Class of ’07 students have no way of knowing whether they’ll have the required documents in time to apply.Siddhartha Sinha ’07 of Calcutta, India is concerned about applying in time...