Seattle ranks high in skilled foreign workers on H-1B visas
The region gets little of the training money generated by H-1B visa fees to upgrade local workers' skills, according to a new study.
the area doesn't receive anywhere near its share of the money generated by H-1B visa fees, which are supposed to be used to train the local workforce to perform similar jobs, according to a new study.
Seattle ranked ninth in H-1B visa requests per 1,000 workers over the past two years, but it ranked 64th per capita in grant dollars received since 2001 from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, according to the Brookings ...
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