The Trump administration is mulling over a broad review of the H-1B visa program that lets thousands of foreign engineers and computer scientists work in the United States, according to a draft of an executive order leaked to several news organizations. This year, almost a quarter of a million foreign nationals applied for H-1B visas, which enable them to temporarily live and work in the United States at the company that applied for the visa. Though only 85,000 of those applications will be approved and around a quarter of the visas are for graduate students, technology companies and chipmakers use H-1B visas to fill entry-level jobs and hire international college graduates.
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