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Guest Worker

The holder of an H1-B visa, which gives one permission to live and work the United States for three years, renewable once. Guest workers must possess sufficient skills to perform the work for which they are hired (though there has been controversy as to what level of skill is required) and, if they quit or are fired, they must return home, find another job or apply for a change in status. While the H1-B visa is not an immigrant visa, guest workers may apply for green cards.

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Farmers are responding with four strategies: satisfy current workers to retain them, stretch them with mechanical aids that increase their productivity, substitute machines for workers, and supplement current workers with H-2A guest workers.

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In this study, we develop a quantitative general equilibrium (GE) model of native workers, assess the impact of various guest worker programs on the Japanese economy, and evaluate the welfare effects of these programs on the native Japanese.

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It seems clear, then, that broad, diverse immigration policies can strengthen the nation, while targeted, restrictive guest worker policies are more likely to undermine it.

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During the first attempt to deal with illegal migration in the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, farm employers and worker advocates eventually agreed on a compromise that legalized unauthorized farm workers who had completed at least 90 days of farm work in 1985-86 and made employer-friendly changes to the then agricultural guest worker program, whose name was changed from H-2 to H-2A.

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Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) led the opposition to the guest worker program, arguing that temporary farm workers should have shorter stays working in the United States.

Lines drawn over immigration reform in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

This exemption attracted business opportunities, which led to a high demand for guest workers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises the US Citizenship and Immigration Services of vaccination requirements for those applying for immigration and work visas before the applications are approved (1).

Low immunity to measles and rubella among female guest workers, Northern Mariana Islands

In The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany, Rita Chin guides us through fifty years of public debates about labour migration and multiculturalism in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany

The first chapter sets the tone here, entitled "Aras Oren and the Guest Worker Question." Her literary analysis and her explanation of the strategies these writers and artists have followed to find their voice and gain a hearing in Germany are extraordinary.

The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany

The Bush administration also made changes to the H-2A guest worker program so the government will not have to provide oversight of workers' housing and worksite conditions.

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A guest worker scheme no doubt would benefit the individuals lucky enough to be selected to participate in it, but it is not a development solution for the Pacific.