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Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day

Posted by kdawson on from the cheap-indentured-servitude dept.

CNet is reporting that the door has closed on the H1-B visa application process for this year, one day after it began. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services said that it had received 150,000 applications as of yesterday afternoon. 65,000 H1-B visas can be issued for foreigners with bachelor's degrees. The USCIS will choose randomly from the applications to determine the winners.

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  1. Not an english major by gkozlyk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Batchelor degrees, eh? Didn't know you could get those too.

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    1. Re:Not an english major by aalu.paneer · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, people with Batchelor degrees do bach processing.

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  2. Re:Shouldn't be a lottery. by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a classic catch-22, since first we'd need people with the skills to implement such an idea.

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  3. Re:Shouldn't be a lottery. by jcr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Piece of cake: just outsource the app to implement it to InfoSys in Bangalore.

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  4. Give us your... by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give us your rich, your lucky, your highly educated masses longing to be exploited...

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    1. Re:Give us your... by CRCulver · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm, maybe the selection of immigrants by lottery will make American an increasingly lucky country, just like Larry Niven's tongue-in-cheek hypothesis in Ringworld that through a birthright lottery evolution would select for luck and eventually human beings wouldn't have to fear any accident.

  5. Re:US? by drsmithy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here in Dundee we have a lot of people or chinese and asian origin, lots of them are born and bred here in Scotland with parents or grandparents who emigrated to Scotland. In the shop I work in we get non-whites in every day, and Glasgow for instance has a huge asian population.

    Indeed. One of the most surreal experiences in my recent trip through the UK was hearing an old Asian lady - not a day under 80, I'm sure - start talking in one of the thickest Scottish accents I've ever heard (the type where all you can answer with is "what ?").

    This wasn't in Glasgow though. Edinburgh, I think it was.

  6. Re:US? by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come to Dundee sometime, the locals can't say the "aye" sound. Which, in Scotland, is a bit strange anyway but for them it comes out as a flat "eh", with no raised pitch at the end that might indicate "eh?". So they say "peh" for "pie", "fev" for "five", and - amusingly - "Dundeh" for "Dundee".

    All leading to the hilarious phrase "Eh went to Dundeh fer a peh but eh fell and meh peh went skeh heh."

    I love my country.