Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day

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.

Not an english major

[gkozlyk]

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

Re:Not an english major

[aalu.paneer]

Yes, people with Batchelor degrees do bach processing.

Re:Shouldn't be a lottery.

[StikyPad]

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

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Give us your...

[mwvdlee]

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

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Re:US?

[drsmithy]

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.

Re:US?

[Kazzahdrane]

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.