The Biden administration’s efforts to reform the H-1B program
December 21, 2021
The Biden administration is considering increasing the wages companies must pay H-1B employees, which could reduce the motivation for companies to hire foreign workers. Many pro-labor groups believe that the H-1B program helps large companies such as Google and Facebook at the expense of American workers while immigration advocates oppose measures to rein it in, saying that doing so will hurt American competitiveness by narrowing access to high-skilled talent. H-1B reform could change the landscape of business and immigration in the US. Currently, there are about 600,000 workers in the US that are H-1B visa holders, a vast majority from China and India.
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