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WASHINGTON (AP) - American technology companies will lose highly skilled foreign workers to Indian and Chinese rivals if the country's work-visa program is not fixed, a Google executive warned Congress on Wednesday.
"Simply put, if U.S. employers are unable to hire those who are graduating from our universities, foreign competitors will," Laszlo Bock, a Google vice president, said in testimony prepared for a House hearing.
Bock urged Congress to raise the annual cap on H-1B visas, which allows companies to hire skilled foreign professionals for up to six years. The cap is currently set at 65,000.
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