{"id":190713,"date":"2009-11-01T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/01\/h-1b\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T15:02:00","slug":"h-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/01\/h-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img682.imageshack.us\/img682\/5561\/p1as259bh1bns2009102819.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>It looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125677268735914549.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us\">H-1B visa cap will not be hit this year<\/a>, due to low demand for new hires.<\/p>\n<p>I would that now is a good time to contact Congressmen, and tell them that there should be more restrictions, such as increased fees, and possibly a reduced quota, along with stricter enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, as an engineer, I am a member of a field where the importation of talent lowers the wages for everyone in the field, so I find the program to be less than salutary overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the H-1B visa cap will not be hit this year, due to low demand for new hires. I would that now is a good time to contact Congressmen, and tell them that there should be more restrictions, such as increased fees, and possibly a reduced quota, along with stricter enforcement. Obviously, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1053,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-immigration","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}