The Senate pushed forward the H1B bill to cancel the green card quota

The Senate pushed the H1B bill to cancel the green card quota Senators from both parties plan to introduce a high-tech immigration bill next week. The proposals include a significant increase in the number of high-skilled foreign professionals...

The Senate pushes forward a bill to eliminate the green card quota for H1B. Senators from both parties plan to introduce a high-tech immigration bill next week, proposing a series of measures that are beneficial to high-tech immigrants, including a substantial increase in the H-1B visa quota for high-skilled foreign professionals. The Hill news website The Hill reported that two Republican senators, Hatch of Utah and Rubio of Florida, and two Democratic senators, Coons of Delaware and Klobacka of Minnesota, jointly proposed the "Immigration Innovation Act." The bill proposes to significantly increase the H-1B visa quota from the current 65,000 to 115,000; to establish a "market-based H-1B visa quota adjustment mechanism". If the H-1B visa quota is full soon in a specific year, the visa quota will be increased, but not to exceed 300,000 per year; and to cancel the H-1B visa quota for highly educated people. The visa quota for foreign graduates with a master's degree or above is currently 20,000. What is particularly eye-catching is that the bill also authorizes spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the United States. This question has been a thorny one for years. The bill also hopes to reduce the green card backlog and allow certain groups of people to be exempted from employment-based green card quotas. Those exempted from quotas include dependents of employment-based green card holders, outstanding professors and researchers, and foreign graduates with advanced degrees in mathematics, science, and engineering from American universities. At the same time, the limit on green cards for work in each country will be lifted. In addition, the bill also advocates increasing the fees for employers to apply for H-1B visas and employment green card application fees. These increased revenues will be used to promote programs in education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, as well as retraining at the state level. It is expected that this bill will gain support from the technology community. The tech community has been calling on Washington for years to enact high-tech immigration reform. Tech companies like Microsoft and Intel have claimed they have had trouble filling engineering and research vacancies due to a lack of qualified applicants. They also claim that current immigration rules result in the loss of foreign high-tech workers to foreign competitors. The technology industry relies heavily on the H-1B program to hire foreign employees to serve as highly educated technology professionals such as scientists, engineers and computer programmers. The White House announced on the 25th that President Obama plans to go to Las Vegas to hold an event on the 29th to officially start promoting immigration policy reform. The White House issued a statement after Obama and some senior officials met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on immigration policy reform that morning. During the meeting, Obama reiterated that immigration policy reform should be a legislative priority and cannot be delayed. He himself will continue to be the main promoter on the issue of immigration policy reform and vigorously promote efforts to improve the existing immigration system during his trip to Las Vegas on the 29th. The White House also said in a statement that Obama and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus reached consensus on some reform measures and agreed that the immigration policy reform plan should involve some procedural issues for illegal immigrants to obtain citizenship. House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Serra, who attended the meeting that day, issued a statement saying that during the meeting, Obama emphasized the urgency of promoting comprehensive immigration policy reform and expressed his determination to change the long-standing problems in the immigration system. During his 2012 re-election campaign, Obama promised to reform immigration policy. During his first term, he did not promote legislative reform of existing immigration policies, but during the heat of the campaign last year, he used administrative means to suspend the deportation of some young illegal immigrants. In the previous two presidential elections, Hispanic voters became an important vote base supporting Obama, and immigration policy reform was one of their top concerns. The issue of illegal immigration has always been a hot issue in American society, with complex causes and wide implications. It is estimated that there are more than 10 million illegal immigrants in the United States, most of whom come from Latin American countries such as Mexico. How to effectively solve the problem of illegal immigration has troubled various U.S. governments for a long time. As the size of the ethnic group continues to expand, the influence of Hispanic voters on the election has also forced the two major political parties to attach great importance to the immigration issue.