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The US Senate approved by a voice vote the Sanders- Grassley Amendment that increased the H1B skilled worker visa fees as part of the appropriations dealing with the Departments of Labour, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies for 2008.
The fees increase on H-1B employers is by USD 3,500 - about USD 3,000 of this fee increase would be targeted to USD 15,000 scholarships in Math, Science, Engineering, and healthcare.
About USD 500 of the fee increase would be dedicated to the Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Programme.
But lawmakers left the numbers in the H1B programme unchanged at 65,000.
There is nothing the House version of the Bill on the fee increase for the H1B visa but political observers following the conference procedures are saying that the conferees will agree on the stipulation of the Senate.
President George W Bush has threatened to veto the three bill appropriations pile up that lawmakers are planning to send him.
This is not on account of the White House objections on the H1B visa fee raise but in lawmakers going over the top by at least USD 11 billions of what the administration wanted.
Democratic lawmakers are maneuvering to come up with an Omnibus Appropriations Bill that will be difficult for the President to veto but there is nothing to suggest that the H1B fee increase will be dropped in the final analysis as this has not attracted sufficient traction among lawmakers
If the President vetoes any Omnibus Appropriations Bill, the lawmakers could continue funding through Continuing Resolutions until the final details of the budget are sorted out between Capitol Hill and the White House.
In this case, the H1B visa fee increase will be getting a temporary reprieve, it is being pointed out.
"This is nothing but additional or another form of taxation on the employers to do business in this country," said Aman Kapoor, the President and Founder of Immigration Voice.
"This is likely to encourage major tech companies to either outsource the business or hire tech-workforce in other countries," Kapoor said.
"It will have a long term impact in America where cost of doing business in technology, health care, telecommunications and a vast variety of other sectors will increase to the detriment of the economy," Kapoor maintained. - DDNEWS
Posted November 5th, 2007 by Armen Hareyan
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labour programmes
if you spell using 'labour' and 'programme', then American policy really isn't any of your business, because obviously you're not a citizen.
I'm really sick and tired of the wo=hole world butting in on our country