Good News for retrogressed people

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Good News!!!

05/25/2006: An Amendment Negative to EB Immigration Passed Today

The Senate passed today Bingaman amendment to limit the total number of EB aliens including spouses and children for the EB-based green cards be limited to 650,000 during any fiscal year. The original bill was to exempt the spouses and children of the EB immigrants from the numerical limitation and principal EB immigrants number was proposed to be 450,000. In a way, these two proposals remain intact, provided that the spouses and children can indirectly restrict the total EB numbers available for the EB immigrants and their spouses and children.

Source: www.immigration-law.com

 

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May 26th Breaking news on immigration-law.com

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05/26/2006: Semi-Conductor Industry Association Hails Passage of S. 2611

The Senate bill increases the annual cap on H-1B visas from 65,000 to 115,000, creates a market-based cap to allow for future increases if market condition warrant, and raises the green card cap to 650,000 for fiscal years 2007-2016. The bill also exempts from the H-1B cap for workers who have earned a masters or Ph.D degree in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and exempts from the green card cap those workers with masters and Ph.D STEM degrees who have worked in the U.S. for at least three years. The current limits on H-1B visas were reached in August 2005, preventing U.S. employers from utilizing H-1B visas to hire workers with critically needed advanced skills until October of 2006. According to figures supplied by the USCIS, by the end of this month we will also have a backlog that, absent an increase in the cap, will use all of next year's available H-1B visas by the end of the month!