Moment of truth for H-1B visa applicants
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The competition is tight again this year for H-1B visas, which are given to skilled foreign workers and are good for three years, renewable for another three. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 163,000 petitions in just five days at the start of this month.
Today the agency randomly selected the “winners” in two stages: first for those with advanced degrees who qualify for 20,000 visas, then for the general pool of applicants who are subject to a cap of 65,000 visas per year.
The selected applicants will be notified by June 2, according to USCIS, with processing estimated to take 8-10 weeks.
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Criminal Aliens comprise today 1/3rd of Federal prison population, and this is the single fastest growing cohort in the population.
The GAO recently analyzed the rap sheets of more than 55,000 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003.[Source: General Accountability Office, “Information on Certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States,” Letter to Congressman John N. Hostettler, May 9, 2005.]
It found:
The average criminal alien was arrested for 13 prior offenses
12 percent were for murder, robbery, assault and sexually related crimes
Only 21 percent were immigration offenses; the rest were felonies
81 percent of their arrests occurred after 1990
In a word, criminal aliens are not your casual law breaker. Most are recidivists—AKA career criminals. The economic burden they impose on victims, including loss of income and property, uncompensated hospital bills, and emotional pain and suffering – has been estimated at $1.6 million per property and assault crime offender. [Source: Anne Morrison Piehl and John J. DiLulio, “Does prison pay?”]
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