While that's great news!!  Now, if we can just get something done about the
10's of thousands of them already here.

I recently ran into a situation where I met with a foreign worker who had
been on the hp for 2.5 years.  I asked where he learned the hp, and he
replied that he learned it while on the current assignment.  He also added
the he never even knew that hp made mini computers...he was trained and
worked in the IBM mainframe market.  When he was let go from a contract
assignment 2.5 years ago, the consulting company had him on the beach, and
told him to show up at his current assignment.  He assumed that the
consulting company was not billing the customer until he (the contractor)
could actually perform some work of value.  After that, he pointed out 3
more foreign folks that got there and learned the hp the same way at the
same company!!

The net result was that the H1-B folks didn't have to go home, the
consulting company footed the training bill, and in both cases, I truly
think the intent of the law had, once again been skirted.



Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves none of us
to talk about the rest of us"
                  --Robert Louis Stevenson?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brandt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:14 PM
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> Subject:      [HP3000-L] OT: Number of H1-B visas to be cut
>
> " WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is about to cut the number of
> employment visas it offers to highly qualified foreign workers from
> 195,000
> to 65,000, immigration experts said on Monday."
>
> Full article at
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030922/us_nm/life_usa_
> immigration_dc_4
>
>
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> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
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