There's new action appearing in the high skilled immigration circles. Some new bills have been introduced in Congress to deal with the employment(skill) based immigration issues. One bill introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D. CA) seeks to eliminate the per country limits on the immigration numbers and to end the spill-over of unused immigrant visa numbers between employment-based and family-sponsored categories. Finally, someone is trying to differentiate between skills and diversity.
Another bill brought on by the powerful healthcare lobby and introduced by Rep. Robert Waxler seeks to reserve 20,000 visa numbers out of the annual total for exclusive use by Nurses and Physical Therapists in the Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act. The healthcare lobby always tries to be non-controversial to mainstream America by demanding new visa numbers but at the same time not increasing the total numbers. This at a time when there's almost 6 years worth of applicants in the queue. Not to mention the fact that each year, there are a lot of visa numbers wasted due to inefficiency in communication between the agencies.
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