Bush Administration Pressured On H-1B Visa Reform

A Senate committee has become impatient with promises from Homeland Security and Labor to visit reforms on visa programs for highly skilled workers.

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
March 11, 2008 04:12 PM

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday sent a letter to the U.S. Homeland Security Deptartment quizzing secretary Michael Chertoff about what progress the Bush administration has made toward H-1B visa reforms.

In his letter, Grassley -- the co-sponsor of a Senate bill last year to counter H-1B visa abuse and fraud -- asked Chertoff for an update on immigration reforms promised last August by the Bush administration.

Specifically, last year Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez announced that Homeland Security and the Department of Labor "would study and report on potential administrative reforms to visa programs for highly skilled workers," said Grassley.

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