tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post112420823323555510..comments2024-03-29T08:55:55.727-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: US Visa Limit ReachedLance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1124476846217056382005-08-19T13:40:00.000-05:002005-08-19T13:40:00.000-05:00To answer Amit's question, the academic hiring sea...To answer Amit's question, the academic hiring season ends well before the visa for the following fiscal year run out. When I worked at NEC Research in New Jersey we had some postdocs who couldn't start until October 1 which was an annoyance but not a disaster.Lance Fortnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1124370764146464772005-08-18T08:12:00.000-05:002005-08-18T08:12:00.000-05:00Speaking of visas, Bruce Scheiner's blogreports th...Speaking of visas, Bruce Scheiner's blog<BR/>reports that Xiaoyun Wang, the Chinese cryptographer who recently broke SHA-1 was<BR/>denied a visa to enter the US to present her paper at CRYPTO'05. This is a really sad development. While there is some (albeit stupid) logic behind the H-1 visa limit, there is absolutely no sense in denying someone a business visa to attend a well-respected conference, that too to present a paper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1124341154718270582005-08-17T23:59:00.000-05:002005-08-17T23:59:00.000-05:00I'd better add Yahoo to that list of research labs...I'd better add Yahoo to that list of research labs (some readers of this blog are now there). Sorry if I missed other prominent ones.<BR/><BR/>-- AmitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1124317184030506562005-08-17T17:19:00.000-05:002005-08-17T17:19:00.000-05:00It will affect those foreign students looking at j...It will affect those foreign students looking at jobs with industrial research labs, though. Could someone from IBM, AT&T, Bell Labs, Microsoft, Google, etc. say a few words about how they handle this? <BR/><BR/>-- Amit ChakrabartiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1124284007337002712005-08-17T08:06:00.000-05:002005-08-17T08:06:00.000-05:00whoops, did not read the first comment to this pos...whoops, did not read the first comment to this post before posting my question...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1124283954207653882005-08-17T08:05:00.000-05:002005-08-17T08:05:00.000-05:00Does this visa limit also mean that foreign nation...Does this visa limit also mean that foreign nationals cannot seek tenure track assistant professor positions at US universities?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1124280779323167822005-08-17T07:12:00.000-05:002005-08-17T07:12:00.000-05:00A silver lining for researchers/faculty is the fol...A silver lining for researchers/faculty is the following cap-exemption on page 2: "USCIS also notes that petitions for new H-1B employment are not subject to the annual cap at all if the alien will be employed at an institution of higher education or a related or affiliated nonprofit entity, or at a nonprofit research organization or a governmental research organization. Thus, petitions for these exempt H-1B categories may still be filed for work start dates in FY 2005 or 2006."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com