Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) are expected to introduce legislation that would require all companies to observe such stricter limits before looking at H-1B visa workers.
Foreign grads returning home
U.S. tech firms also say they need access to foreign-born students graduating from U.S. universities. About half of those graduating with master's degrees in electrical engineering in the U.S. are foreign-born, as are 70% of PhD graduates in that field.
The companies say it doesn't make sense to exclude these graduates from a potential pool of hires because there are not enough H-1B visas.
Image: Tania Khadder (L), 29, and John Henion, 32, both unemployed online journalists, hold signs announcing a new blog called 'unemploymentality.com' along Market Street in San Francisco, California. | Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
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