Many business leaders are expressing confusion and irritation that getting highly-skilled workers into the U.S. continues to be such an ordeal. Workers from India, China and Canada typically report that they have been waiting five, six, even seven or more years to hear if they can travel to the U.S. to work on an H-1B visa.<\/p>\n
According to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), more highly-skilled workers may be able to become employed in the U.S. in a shorter time frame \u2013 within a year. That could happen if immigration reform becomes a reality. Hatch joined a roundtable discussion on immigration reform, where he acknowledged that workers who travel to the U.S. for higher education degrees often want to stay in the U.S. and work at high tech and other high-skilled companies and in high tech industries, only to have to move back to their home countries due to visa restrictions. <\/p>\n