News Release

IEEE-USA Supports High-Tech Visa Reform Legislation Introduced in Senate 

WASHINGTON (29 April 2009) --Today in a letter to the U.S. Senate, IEEE-USA communicated its support for legislation introduced by Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that is designed to reduce fraud and abuse in the H-1B and L-1 visa programs for temporary skilled workers. The letter also affirms IEEE-USA's long-standing support for permanent skills-based immigration as a more appropriate strategy than temporary visas to help meet the workforce needs of the U.S. high-tech industry.

The letter is available at http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/policy/2009/042909.pdf .

IEEE-USA's position on high-tech immigration is at http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/Immigration0607.pdf .

See http://durbin.senate.gov/showRelease.cfm?releaseId=311910 for a news release describing key provisions of the bill.

IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.

Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
Phone: + 1 202 530 8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org

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