Monday, September 8, 2014

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Famed futurist and physicist Michio Kaku has said that America has a secret weapon.

That secret weapon is the H-1B, Kaku said, Without the H-1B the scientific establishment of this country would collapse! Forget about Google. Forget about Silicon Valley, there would be no Silicon Valley without the H-1B.

So what exactly are H-1B visas? Theyre visas for highly skilled, foreign born workers. And theyre hard to get. Companies looking for these employees snatch them up fast in October, it took less than a week for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to hit the cap of 65,000 for 2015.

Its a talent war, says Shams Juma. Hes CEO of a Dallas business consulting startup called Quantifye.

Its very difficult for us to find good talent, and in house.

Juma shared his struggle with a group of startup enthusiasts a few weeks ago at an event put on by local startup group LaunchDFW and the national lobby group FWD.us. FWD.us has been called the Zuckerberg PAC, for its Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

Not everyone searching for an H-1B visa wants to work in IT for Google, Facebook, or a consulting firm. Adrian Avendano wants to work at his own company, but its not that easy.

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