The visa program has an initial cap of 400,000, which adjusts up or down yearly based on market fluctuations.

The numbers are stark: beginning in 2008, Congress expanded the special immigrant visa program to allot 25,000 slots over five years.

The United States' visa programs should not adversely affect American workers.

I support maintaining and exploring opportunities to strengthen safeguards in visa programs to ensure that Americans have the first opportunity to take these jobs.

At the center of this bill is a new temporary visa program that would allow foreign workers to fill jobs that no Americans will take.

Currently in the United States there are about 30,000 temporary agricultural workers under this visa program.

The visa program is an object lesson in poor labor policy.

As a former prisoner, he qualified for a special visa program approved under the first President Bush.

It was the first time since the seasonal visa program began 14 years ago that the annual limit had been reached.

The H-1B program has its roots in temporary visa programs begun in the 1950's.