They have asked only two-thirds to two months of fiscal year end
seems that the idea of \u200b\u200bworking in the United States has lost its charm. Missing a little over two months to close the fiscal year 2009, it remains to allocate thousands of work visas H-1B for fiscal year 2010, which registration period is open from April.
Unlike previous years when applications for these visas come to exceed the 100,000 during the first days of enrollment, during the period beginning April 2009 until last July 10 had received only applications for a total 44.900 of 65,000 H-1B visas available according to data from Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS).
These documents, known as "visa for professionals," awarded to workers with a specific profile to fill positions in industries for which there is not always qualified personnel within the United States, and must be requested by the employer.
addition to the 65 000 visas delivered under these conditions, the CIS delivers another 20 thousand for those with higher education, master's or doctorate. Of these, only recently have reached 20 thousand applications.
In the case of H-2B visas, which are sought for temporary needs of the employer, the allowance is 33 thousand of 47 000 applications expected for this type of visa, there have been only 1.900, of which 600 have already been approved.
During the application period for fiscal year 2009, 65 000 applications for H-1B had been received during the first five days. A year earlier the rate was similar. However, when they opened the period to 2007, applications flowed up to its limit in the month of May.
"Our numbers have remained constant," he told La Opinión Marie Sebrechts, CIS spokesman. "The two previous years had a 'peak' unusual requests have reached their limit in a few days, but in reality if we see year back, usually between May and August that limit is reached. There was a year that in January the next fiscal year continued to receive ".
According to Sebrechts, the reason why there was an unusual discharge during the past two years lies in the motivations of the businesses that applied for this number of visas. "We do not know if it was because they needed additional workers, or if perhaps they felt that there would be no more visas available potentially. I really do not know. "
who does have a compelling explanation for the decrease in demand this year is Deborah Notkin, a member of the Governing Board of the American Immigration Lawyers (AILA).
"Clearly we are seeing market forces, employment is down, the economy is different now, a little slow," says Notkin, who nevertheless believes that this is a situation that can not last long. "We have seen that in the past two years have required more people in areas like stem cell research, engineering, mathematics and technological innovation over there is where successful businesses are addressed, and that's where will continue to need skilled workers. "
Katherine Vargas, spokeswoman for the National Immigration Forum, agreed with this point. "This decline no doubt reflects the situation and economic pressure now that unemployment has been on the U.S., which may reflect the fears of some employers to hire foreign workers, "he said.
Vargas recalled that the conditions of the economic stimulus package approved by Obama calls businesses that receive funds under this heading do not hire foreign workers. "However it is noteworthy that many of these workers help turn create more jobs," he said.
To illustrate this, Vargas cited the case of the Google company , where most workers come from abroad, but that by helping the prosperity of the company, contributing in the generation of other jobs arising from this activity.
Jorge Mario Cabrera, spokesman for the Los Angeles Coalition for Human Rights of Immigrants, said that the reduction in the number of applications could be in line with what he called "a return to the corner of the global recession."
"We have always said that the need for workers in the United States is the major force of the northward migration of our countrymen, that if there was no need for cheap labor in our country, if employers do not seek it, people do not have to come, "he said.
"But the system is so far behind that no known whether these claims are repeated, because in the past refused enough, "he added." It would be interesting to know what areas of work are being presented these requests, where they come, and that also would take away a bit of force to that argument that those born in the United States are sufficient to fill the jobs created in this country. "
Source: http://www.impre.com/laopinion/noticias/primera-pagina/2009/7/15/visas -of-work-lose-terre-135409-3.html
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