The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011, eliminates the per country numerical limitation on employment-based visas.
From what I gather, the argument seems to be that under present law, no more than 7% of H-1B visas, which are used for engineers and other highly skilled workers, may be issued to persons from the same country in any year. Supporters of this legislation believe this quota harms U.S. competitveness, because a small group of countries, including India and China, produce a disproportionate number of workers who would otherwise be eligible for such a visa.
Basically, they (the US Congress) wants to INCREASE the number of Indian and Chinese skilled workers.
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