U.S. businesses want more immigrant workers

Published April 8, 2015 7:32pm ET



United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Tuesday that it has already received more than the annual limit of 65,000 high-skilled worker immigration applications for fiscal year 2016. Applications were accepted starting only one week ago, on April 1.

The applications, through the H-1B visa program, are for employee-sponsored visas. Only jobs that require a bachelor’s degree or higher are eligible for the visa. Typically, most of the immigrants who receive H-1B visas work in computer science or engineering.

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