%0 Journal Article
%T Understanding Proposed Changes to the H-1B Visa: Protecting American Government Interests, Improving the Opportunities for American Companies, or Potentially Hurting Hopeful Immigrants?
%A Rebecca Stonawski
%J Laws
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/laws2030233
%X This paper will examine the US government¡¯s proposed changes to the H-1B visa, a dual-intent visa meant to bring highly-skilled individuals to the US labor market. It will first explain what the H-1B visa is and is not and what might happen to the H-1B visa in the future. The focus of the paper, however, will be on how the H-1B visa program is failing. The thesis of this article is that reform to the H-1B visa may be very good for the US employer and the US economy. However, the proposed legislation keeps a number of disadvantageous features for H-1B holders intact, rather than addressing them.
%K immigration
%K H-1B
%K United States
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/2/3/233