High-Skilled Visa Applications Hit Record High

CNN Money reports that this year 233,000 foreigners applied for the H-1B, the most common visa for high-skilled foreign workers. That’s up significantly from 2014 (172,500 applications) and nearly double the applicants from two years ago (124,000). The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will grant just 85,000 H-1B visas (20,000 of which are reserved for master’s degree holders), which it selected Monday via a lottery process.

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