What we need in the interim is to attract and find. be able to bring to this country from anywhere on the globe where they might reside. the highest skilled workers we can find to fill these jobs until we can produce enough workers here in this country to fill them. And that is the goal of this legislation. There is a program under the existing immigration laws that allows people to come into this country on a temporary basis to fill highskilled jobs. This is a program which is called the HlB visa program. Since its inception about 8 years ago. the H1B program has had a cap of 65.000 visas per year that may be made available for highly skilled people to come to this country to fill the types of jobs we are talking about here today. Until the 1997 fiscal year. however. we had never reached the 65.000 cap. It was not assumed we would reach it when the program was originally created.
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