Blink and you'll miss a chance at getting a highly skilled worker: The federal government began accepting petitions for H-1B visas today and is expected to surpass its annual limit by the end of this week.
That means the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service likely will hold a lottery to determine who gets the 65,000 H-1B visas that are available for fiscal 2014. That's the current limit set by Congress for these visas, which companies use to hire highly skilled foreign workers in fields such as science, engineering and computer programming.
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