S. 1351:
H-1B Visa Program Modernization Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeS.
H.R. 1930:
Securing Knowledge, Innovation, and Leadership Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeH.R.
S. 1092:
High-Tech Worker Relief Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeS. 1092, High-Tech Worker Relief Act of 2007, would raise the cap on H-1B high skill nonimmigrant workers from 65,000 to 115,000 for fiscal year 2007 and to 195,000 for fiscal year 2008 and would return the cap to 65,000 for fiscal year 2009 and beyond; would eliminate the 20,000-per-year cap on visas for nonimmigrant workers who have earned a master's or higher degree from a U.S.
S. 1083:
Securing Knowledge, Innovation, and Leadership Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeS. 1083, the Securing Knowledge, Innovation, and Leadership Act of 2007, would increase the annual H-1B cap from 65,000 to 115,000 and then by 20% in any following year in which the cap is met. As well, S. 1083 would increase the annual worldwide level of employment-based (EB) immigrants by 150,000 plus 340,000 spouses and minor children of EB immigrants who are exempt from the cap.
S. 1035:
H-1B and L-1 Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportS. 1035, the H-1B and L-1 Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, would reduce much of the fraud associated with the H-1B and L-1 visa programs by, among other things, requiring employers to attest that they had tried to hire U.S. workers before importing a foreign worker and requiring H-1B and L-1 visa holders be paid prevailing wages.
H.R. 1792:
Temporary Agricultural Labor Reform Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportH.R. 1792, the Temporary Agricultural Labor Reform Act, would make reforms to the H-2A agricultural guest-worker program that would help protect U.S. agricultural workers from job displacement and wage depression currently caused by the H-2A temporary agricultural guest-worker program.
H.R. 1843:
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeH.R. 1843, the Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act, would exempt any alien who has been present in the United States as an H-2B nonimmigrant worker for any one of the previous three fiscal years and who is returning to work as an H-2B from counting against the 66,000-per-year cap on H-2B visas. This potentially triples the number of workers in a year and would make these provisions effective for five years.
H.R. 1758:
H.R. 1758
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeH.R. 1758 would authorize DHS to issue up to 65,000 additional H-1B “high skill worker” visas per year (exempt from the extant 65,000-per-year cap) – fiscal years 2008 through 2012 – to aliens who meet H-1B admission requirements and who possess post-graduate degrees; would require an employer petitioning for such an H-1B nonimmigrant worker to make “qualified scholarship payments” to a U.S.
S. 988:
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeS. 988, Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007, would have allowed an alien to return as an H-2B nonimmigrant worker without counting against the annual 66,000 cap if they had used an H-2B visa during one of the three previous fiscal years, effectively tripling the number of H-2B workers.