Visa cap cuts off immigrants with advanced degrees

This is one part of our immigration mess that has to be fixed soon. We need skilled workers, yet send them out of the country.    - - Donna Poisl

Jens Manuel Krogstad, The Des Moines Register

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Kazeem Olanrewaju is scheduled to be deported this summer from Iowa, a place that he has grown to love.

The Nigeria native, who holds an expiring student visa, said the situation confounds him. Olanrewaju, 38, sought to enter the U.S. workforce with engineering expertise in a nation starved for skilled workers.

Yet because of annual caps on the number of work visas, thousands of immigrants with advanced degrees annually face the prospect of being forced to leave the United States. It's a situation that has existed for years and Congress has not yet resolved it.
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