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Tech Demand Likely to Be Strong in Annual H-1B Lottery

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Despite layoffs thinning the U.S. tech work force, IT companies like Microsoft are expected to be amongst the companies competing for coveted H-1B visas when the annual government lottery for educated foreign staff gets under way.
– Predictions are that U.S. Citizenship and Colonization Services is again
likely to promptly hit its ceiling of 65,000 H-1B visas when the controversial
program’s annual lottery for educated foreign staff starts April 1. In 2008,
the same quota was met in a single day, not to mention a supplementa…