Winning the Global Talent War: H-1B Visa Reform

Date:	May 12, 2008
Time:	12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s):	James Sherk Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation Kelly Krieger Hunt Senior Manager, Immigration Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce George Fishman Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, U.S. House of Representatives
Host(s):	Helle Dale Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
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Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium On April 7, 2008, six days after the FY 2009 H-1B application process opened up, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had received approximately 163,000 H-1B petitions, exceeding the cap for H-1B visas for the fiscal year of 2009. Of those 163,000 applicants, only 85,000 will receive an H-1B visa, chosen by a computer generated random selection process. As a result, tens of thousands of foreign workers and American employers must wait until April of 2009 to apply again. The limited number of H-1B visas available has many implications to the United States, from hurting our economy and competitiveness, to damaging U.S. public diplomacy around the world. Join us as a panel of experts discusses the current issues of H-1B visas, its many implications to the United States, and the proper way to fix this system.