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The legislation won't be final until the House and Senate vote on it. The House could take it up later this week but the Senate won't vote until after it reconvenes 9 May.
Small-business owners in the US who rely on international workers say they need more H2B visas to be available for foreign workers.
The United States has recently clarified that it will grant US visit visas to Indian nationals who have passports with a validity period of 20 years. The Indian media had reported previously that the US would not grant visas to passports that were valid for periods of 20 years. It was also reported that Indian nationals who had US visas in their 20-year passports would be refused entry into the US.
According to reports, Indian nationals had begun to exchange their 20-year passports for 10-year passports.
The regulation on US H-1B visas has moved through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and has gone to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for signature. This means that clear information on the promised 20,000 additional H-1B visas for 2005 should be available soon. The regulation could be published in the Federal Register in the next few days.
Limits on H-1B visas should be removed to allow more skilled foreign citizens to work at US companies if the US wants to remain a leader in technology, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on 27 April.
Gates said Microsoft is having a hard time finding skilled workers within the United States, and the lack of H-1B visas for skilled workers is only making the situation worse.
A new rule published by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the Federal Register on April 25, 2005 classifies some scientists from the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and the Baltic States as employment-based immigrants.