Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers
Our immigration-phobic Congress passed a law last week exempting Australian professionals from competition over H-1B visas. It created a new class of visa just for them, called an E-3 visa, and authorized 10,500 of them.
So, will we get their tired or their poor? How about their skilled laborers? Guess again.
We're getting their lawyers.
The new program, widely regarded as a reward for Australia's support of President Bush's policies, opens the door to a vast expansion of the number of Australians working in the United States, only 900 of whom received H-1B visas last year.
Law, banking and accounting are the top industries for Australians in the United States, she said. Indeed, even with the current limits, Australians are already frequent hires at major U.S. law firms like Shearman & Sterling; Weil, Gotshal & Manges; White & Case and others, who now overcome the short supply of top U.S. associates by hiring the cream of the crop overseas rather than settling for second-best at home. (emphasis supplied.)
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