Immigration & The Baby Boom

It is time to address the chronic issue of too few visa numbers for skilled worker green cards and specialty occupation H-1B visas. Contact your congressional representative and let them know you support increasing the quota numbers.

The baby boomer generation is retiring, marking the exit of thousands of skilled, experienced workers from the U.S. workforce.

Who will replace these people? It should be a healthy mix of U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents and U.S. non-immigrant visa holders taking the jobs, but it will likely not play out that way. There are too few work visas available every year to fill the growing number of created jobs, let alone the existing jobs that require replacement workers. Most importantly, there are not any where near enough Americans to fill the jobs. Therefore, those jobs that cannot be filled will simply go overseas to another country with a more realistic immigration attitude. In economic terms, we are starving ourselves of the supply and the demand for a specialized work force. We will end up with executives with nothing to execute.

Unless we find a way to increase the number of visas available each year, we will continue to turn away the worlds best and brightest individuals, many of whom get their education in the U.S. and have no choice but to enter a different country and contribute to its well being. They want to stay, they are already here and so obviously do not pose any threat whatsoever, but we are afraid of something. What?

Initiate some change. You can find contact information for your congressional representative here:
http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm
Tell your representative you want them to fight for an increase in the immigration quota numbers.