Lacking a koseki (household registration), foreigners on temporary visas working illegally can get no social services.
Leading industry groups are also pushing for the bill because it would grant temporary visas to workers abroad.
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The electronic exit system is meant to keep better track of people in the country on temporary visas.
And -- nationals could be subject to deportation and separation from their spouses upon expiration of temporary visas.
The plan would allow undocumented workers to obtain three-year temporary visas, renewable once.
As the Cross-Party Balanced Migration Group has argued, it is essential we break that link between temporary visas and permanent settlement.
She found herself competing for jobs with employees of outsourcing firms brought over from India on temporary visas, such as the H-1B.
In the U.S. talent is so scarce that this year's annual quota of 115, 000 temporary visas for skilled workers filled up by early spring.
The annual allotment of 200, 000 or so temporary visas for top-end jobs is usually filled only six months into the year, says Ms Martin.
What is more, the government has quietly started handing out more temporary visas for Mexican farm workers and the like, making it easier to enter legally.
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In January 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released a memo designed to limit the ability of employers to place foreign nationals on H-1B temporary visas at third party sites.
Simply put, by, in effect, prohibiting foreign-born individuals from coming to America to work legally on temporary visas to fill lower-skilled jobs, the federal government is imposing the type of policy he decries in other areas.
Growers consider the underutilized H-2A visa for seasonal agricultural workers burdensome and litigation-prone, while employers have often used up the annual quota of H-2B temporary visas for seasonal workers in resorts, crab fishing, nurseries and other industries.
But the legal costs and fees to sponsor skilled foreign nationals for temporary visas (thousands of dollars) and for permanent residence (typically tens of thousands of dollars) call into question any supposed cost advantage in hiring foreign nationals.
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Still, Republicans and Democrats placed strict new conditions on the immigration measure on Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to slash the number of foreign workers who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas, capping the guest-worker program at 200, 000 a year.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged to clamp down on the "457" temporary work visas.
The United States has nearly doubled the annual quota of temporary work visas it grants to foreign professionals--to 195, 000, from 115, 000.
One option would be to grant them temporary work visas with a longer-term path to citizenship and a higher tariff rate.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged to clamp down on the "457" temporary work visas granted to skilled migrants eager to share in the country's mining boom that has helped power more than two decades of annual growth.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged to clamp down on 457s, the temporary work visas granted to skilled migrants eager to share the spoils of the country's mining boom, which has helped power more than two decades of uninterrupted annual growth.
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Firms apply for more employment based green cards and temporary high skilled work visas when the economy is thriving.
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It also is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, for founders to obtain temporary H-1B visas for their own prospective startups.
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He said the chamber sought 400, 000 new visas for temporary workers while the AFL-CIO's opening number was much lower, in the low five figures.
It doubles the number of temporary H1-B visas for high-tech workers.
Most industries don't have a good way to hire a steady supply of foreign workers because there's one temporary visa program for low-wage nonagricultural workers but it's capped at 66, 000 visas per year and is only supposed to be used for seasonal or temporary jobs.
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