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To: zeestephen

Ponder this on H1bs alone...”There is no official estimate of the size of the total H-1B population; our estimate is 650,000 as of September 30, 2009, 10 times larger than the flow number usually referred to.”

Note that was 6 years ago.This is how messed up things currently are: no one even keeps statistics on how many H-1B workers there are in the US.

The number used by politicians about this program is typically 65,000.

http://cis.org/estimating-h1b-population-2-11


11 posted on 09/05/2015 11:11:57 AM PDT by glenduh
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To: glenduh
glenduh,

I've posted on the H-1B subject many times.

The “65,000” number is utterly bogus, but is published everywhere.

The minimum estimate for H-1Bs in 2015 is 550,000.

One researcher at CIS (the site you link, and the best site for hard data on this) recently estimated just short of 1 million H-1Bs.

Here's a quick - and current - summary for those who are interested:

(1) 65,000 is the yearly quota for tech workers with B.S. degrees. Add in 20,000 more per year for those with M.S. and PhDs.
(2) Now multiply times six! Why? Because each visa is automatically renewable for six years! So, that's 510,000 right there.
(3) After six years, H-1Bs with active applications for Green Cards may renew 1 year at a time - indefinitely.
(4) H-1Bs employed by universities, government agencies, and non-profit laboratories do not count against the quota. No one has any idea how many there are.
(5) There are at least 100,000 more foreign workers in the USA who are legally using various kinds of student, training, internship, and travel visas to work full time jobs here.

15 posted on 09/05/2015 4:32:43 PM PDT by zeestephen
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