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还有个副标题：Path is clear for approval of H-1B spouse rule, other changes
may come too
把奥巴马的各种选项总结得挺全面的
最好玩的是下面的comments，建议有空的同学读读，看看很多老美吊丝的心态。
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250537/Obama_s_options_
When President Barack Obama takes executive action on immigration, he's
expected to give final approval to a rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa
holders, now barred from working in the U.S., to get jobs. There could be
more changes as well as the Obama administration has met with various tech
groups to collect wish lists.
Obama is expected to use his executive authority over the coming weeks to
make significant changes to immigration rules in the absence of
congressional action.
A roadmap for the president is the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform
bill (S. 744), which has stalled in the House. Obama is being urged to
adopt provisions of the bill that don't require congressional action.
The House isn't expected to vote on the bipartisan Senate bill, which passed
in 2013.
Two key items believed to be getting consideration by the administration
were included in the Senate bill.
First: The U.S. now issues 140,000 employment-based permanent visas or green
cards each year, half of which go to dependents. The Senate bill exempts
dependents from the cap, effectively doubling the number of green cards
available to principals.
The idea of only counting principals and not dependents, including children,
against the cap extends to family permanent residency as well. That
provides an opportunity to create broad-based support for principals-only
reform.
A draft letter from several groups to the president calls for the
elimination, or at least a reduction, in the "egregious backlogs for legal
immigration by counting only principals against the limits set by the
Immigration Act of 1990."
The letter was signed by the IEEE-USA, the Semiconductor Industry
Association, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the League of
United Latin American Citizens, among other groups.
Former U.S. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), who chaired the House Immigration
subcommittee responsible for drafting the 1990 immigration reform
legislation that created the present system, believes the White House has
the ability, via executive action, to allocate all available employment-
based green cards to principals only.
Second: The tech industry also wants Obama to use executive action to "
recapture" unused green cards from prior years, and make them available to
people now in the permanent residency backlog. The Congressional Budget
Office estimates that recapturing unused green cards from 1992 to 2013 would
add about 250,000 visas.
The "recapture" action was also sought in the Senate bill.
According to a several sources, some in the high-tech industry may ask the
White House to establish an H-1B priority system. The priority system idea
was not part of the Senate bill.
The U.S. now uses a lottery system to distribute visas if the 85,000 cap is
oversubscribed. A priority system would give preference to firms that aren't
dependent on H-1B visas. This may hurt the major users of H-1B visa,
offshore outsourcing firms based both in the U.S. and India.
If a company has 51 or more full time employees and 15% of those workers are
on an H-1B visa, it is categorized by the U.S. as H-1B dependent and
subject to special rules. There is also opposition within the tech industry
to a priority system, so it may lack the support needed.
More certain is final White House approval of a rule to allow spouses of H-
1B visa holders who are seeking green cards with authorization to work. For
now, spouses can't hold jobs.
The U.S. received nearly 13,000 written comments on the proposed rule before
the comment period closed last month.
Writing in opposition was the Society of Professional Engineering in
Aerospace (SPEEA), whose members are employed as scientists and in technical
positions at several large companies, including Boeing.
SPEEA said that there is "the strong likelihood" that spouses will have
science, technology, engineering and math degrees (STEM), and that in many
cases may work for the same employer are their H-1B holding spouse. It
warned that if the rule is adopted, "employers will likely exploit this
opportunity by preferentially hiring H-1B workers with STEM-degreed spouses
in order to acquire two STEM workers with one H-1B visa."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, supports of the rule, arguing that employed
spouses "will improve the likelihood that highly skilled H-1B workers will
seek to stay in the U.S. on a permanent basis and remain in the U.S. labor
force."
The Obama administration, according to Politico, met with tech and other
business sectors earlier this month to discuss immigration issues.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), a critic of the H-1B program, said this week
in a statement that "the same group of CEOs" that helped to write the Senate
immigration bill "is now scheming with the White House to extract by
executive fiat what was denied to them by the American people and Congress."
may come too
把奥巴马的各种选项总结得挺全面的
最好玩的是下面的comments，建议有空的同学读读，看看很多老美吊丝的心态。
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250537/Obama_s_options_
When President Barack Obama takes executive action on immigration, he's
expected to give final approval to a rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa
holders, now barred from working in the U.S., to get jobs. There could be
more changes as well as the Obama administration has met with various tech
groups to collect wish lists.
Obama is expected to use his executive authority over the coming weeks to
make significant changes to immigration rules in the absence of
congressional action.
A roadmap for the president is the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform
bill (S. 744), which has stalled in the House. Obama is being urged to
adopt provisions of the bill that don't require congressional action.
The House isn't expected to vote on the bipartisan Senate bill, which passed
in 2013.
Two key items believed to be getting consideration by the administration
were included in the Senate bill.
First: The U.S. now issues 140,000 employment-based permanent visas or green
cards each year, half of which go to dependents. The Senate bill exempts
dependents from the cap, effectively doubling the number of green cards
available to principals.
The idea of only counting principals and not dependents, including children,
against the cap extends to family permanent residency as well. That
provides an opportunity to create broad-based support for principals-only
reform.
A draft letter from several groups to the president calls for the
elimination, or at least a reduction, in the "egregious backlogs for legal
immigration by counting only principals against the limits set by the
Immigration Act of 1990."
The letter was signed by the IEEE-USA, the Semiconductor Industry
Association, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the League of
United Latin American Citizens, among other groups.
Former U.S. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), who chaired the House Immigration
subcommittee responsible for drafting the 1990 immigration reform
legislation that created the present system, believes the White House has
the ability, via executive action, to allocate all available employment-
based green cards to principals only.
Second: The tech industry also wants Obama to use executive action to "
recapture" unused green cards from prior years, and make them available to
people now in the permanent residency backlog. The Congressional Budget
Office estimates that recapturing unused green cards from 1992 to 2013 would
add about 250,000 visas.
The "recapture" action was also sought in the Senate bill.
According to a several sources, some in the high-tech industry may ask the
White House to establish an H-1B priority system. The priority system idea
was not part of the Senate bill.
The U.S. now uses a lottery system to distribute visas if the 85,000 cap is
oversubscribed. A priority system would give preference to firms that aren't
dependent on H-1B visas. This may hurt the major users of H-1B visa,
offshore outsourcing firms based both in the U.S. and India.
If a company has 51 or more full time employees and 15% of those workers are
on an H-1B visa, it is categorized by the U.S. as H-1B dependent and
subject to special rules. There is also opposition within the tech industry
to a priority system, so it may lack the support needed.
More certain is final White House approval of a rule to allow spouses of H-
1B visa holders who are seeking green cards with authorization to work. For
now, spouses can't hold jobs.
The U.S. received nearly 13,000 written comments on the proposed rule before
the comment period closed last month.
Writing in opposition was the Society of Professional Engineering in
Aerospace (SPEEA), whose members are employed as scientists and in technical
positions at several large companies, including Boeing.
SPEEA said that there is "the strong likelihood" that spouses will have
science, technology, engineering and math degrees (STEM), and that in many
cases may work for the same employer are their H-1B holding spouse. It
warned that if the rule is adopted, "employers will likely exploit this
opportunity by preferentially hiring H-1B workers with STEM-degreed spouses
in order to acquire two STEM workers with one H-1B visa."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, supports of the rule, arguing that employed
spouses "will improve the likelihood that highly skilled H-1B workers will
seek to stay in the U.S. on a permanent basis and remain in the U.S. labor
force."
The Obama administration, according to Politico, met with tech and other
business sectors earlier this month to discuss immigration issues.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), a critic of the H-1B program, said this week
in a statement that "the same group of CEOs" that helped to write the Senate
immigration bill "is now scheming with the White House to extract by
executive fiat what was denied to them by the American people and Congress."
