Intel Corp is howling that there are at least four foreign employees working on vital projects in the US that it must lay off after the Federal government announced that it had reached the 65,000 limit on the number of H-1B temporary work visas that can be issued to foreigners needed for vacancies no American can be found to fill one month ahead of the end of the fiscal year on September 30. We are really in some serious trouble, Jennifer Eisen, a Washington spokeswoman for Intel told the Wall Street Journal, whose affected employees were taken in under another visa program while they awaited their H-1B approval. She called the situation an absolute nightmare, saying the visa problem will cause Intel to disrupt some projects and delay others, but surely it can stall for one month and add new H-1B applications first thing October 1.
