High-skilled visa applications hit record high

Posted online April 13, 2016 | 10:55 am

This year, 236,000 foreigners applied for the H-1B, the most common visa for high-skilled foreign workers.

That's an increase of 3,000 from 2015. In 2014, there were 172,500 applications.

However, only 85,000 of the applicants will be granted the visas by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The winners are selected by a lottery process.

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