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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (39085)8/25/2005 8:43:44 PM
From: MoominoidRespond to of 306849
 
Well, is the problem then in getting green cards for these guys? So after 6 years they have to leave?

The quota of H1-Bs was slashed to a third of its previous level last year... This quota doesn't apply to academia though (like me an H1-B academic waiting for the green card bureaucracy to slowly tick over (and over the last 15 years I've also been an F-1 and J-1 and had to end up leaving the country both times...).