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InfoNet Doc. No. 06060110 (posted Jun. 1, 2006)"  Thursday, June
1, 2006  George Tzamaras   Once Again Arbitrary Cap is Damaging
US Businesses Ability to Hire Global Talent  WASHINGTON DC, JUNE
1 - The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)
announced today that it has met the 65,000 H-1B congressionally
mandated cap for the 2007 fiscal year, which means that
companies that need workers with critical skills will have to
wait more than a year before they can obtain this needed
expertise. "This is unprecedented. It marks the second year in a
row that the H-1B cap has been prematurely reached said Deborah
J. Notkin, president of the American Immigration Lawyers
Association (AILA). "It is another example of the country's
broken immigration system and why we need Congress to pass the
Senate's comprehensive immigration bill which solves this annual
dilemma."  "It's just more bad news for American employers,"
continued Notkin. "The exhaustion of