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10-27-2011, 05:10 PM
The huge number of people working in New York City who were born in other countries is staggering: 50% of all the doctors, 40% of the city's social, educational and health workers, 33% of the financial officers, and 25% of the architects. The report by the Levin Institute of the State University of New York and the Center for an Urban Future not only addresses immigrants who provide manpower, but it also analyzes the contribution of immigrants at the professional level. The SUNY report says that "Contrary to popular conceptions, immigrants constitute a great proportion of the professional labor force."
The report released just yesterday and called "New York in the World," says that thousands of jobs in the technological and financial sectors are being lost because of visa restrictions while entire divisions of some companies are being transferred overseas where it is cheaper to operate, according to the report. "There are not enough H-1 visas and there are not enough permanent resident visas which causes many immigrants to remain in a sort of limbo," according to Michelle Wucker, the president of the World Policy Institute. The representative from the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, Katherine Tichacek, did not comment on the report's conclusions right away. According to federal data, the government only provides 60,000 H-1B visas a year for people born overseas who are trained professionals in fields such as engineering, accounting, sciences and law. These visas only allow the holders to work for three years and there are long waiting periods to obtain one of them. In 2006, New York City alone took 11.2% of all the H-1 visas that were issued.
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The report released just yesterday and called "New York in the World," says that thousands of jobs in the technological and financial sectors are being lost because of visa restrictions while entire divisions of some companies are being transferred overseas where it is cheaper to operate, according to the report. "There are not enough H-1 visas and there are not enough permanent resident visas which causes many immigrants to remain in a sort of limbo," according to Michelle Wucker, the president of the World Policy Institute. The representative from the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, Katherine Tichacek, did not comment on the report's conclusions right away. According to federal data, the government only provides 60,000 H-1B visas a year for people born overseas who are trained professionals in fields such as engineering, accounting, sciences and law. These visas only allow the holders to work for three years and there are long waiting periods to obtain one of them. In 2006, New York City alone took 11.2% of all the H-1 visas that were issued.
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