Former CEO Magazine editor, William Holstein, has shaken things up with his post on H1-B visas, with people coming down vehemently on all sides of the issue. What do you think? Are H1-B visas good for America? Do they help keep jobs from going overseas? Or do they solely serve...
Google Inc. http://www.google.com has thrown its considerable weight behind the skilled worker immigration cause, lobbying the United States Congress this week for H-1B visa reform. Google Inc. http://www.google.com has thrown its considerable weight behind the skilled worker immigration cause, lobbying the United States Congress this...
Byline: Samantha Marshall I can relate to the experiences of the people I write about this week, because I'm an expatriate. I arrived from Canada in May 2001, sponsored for an H1B visa by Crain's. I wasn't thinking about a green card back then,...
When U.S. recruiters go out to buy technical talent, they shop in domestic markets that are highly protected by restrictive immigration policies, voluminous and ever-changing rules and a cumbersome visa process. The prime example of this regulatory nightmare is the H-1B visa program. Because bringing in an employee under an...
Layoff is a word that every employee dreads. But for foreign workers living in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, it is very difficult for them to do work.They have to pack up their belongings and return to their homelands. The H-1B visa program was designed to bring foreign workers...
It didn't take long for Melissa Garber Kerpel's telephone to start ringing on Sept. 11. Earlier this year, Ms. Kerpel, an attorney with LaSalle Street law firm Geman Garber & Kerpel, helped the firm's immigration practice launch online divisio It didn't take long...
Jun. 24--NEW DELHI -- India is looking to increase the quota of US visas from 65,000 to 1,95,000 at the WTO negotiations this year. It has made a formal request to the WTO and the US with regard to the same. Jun. 24--NEW DELHI --...
Evidencing the importance with which the tech industry views the issue of immigration reform, the Semiconductor Industry Association http://www.sia-online.org SIA and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA http://www.ieee.org/po Evidencing the importance with which the tech industry views the issue of immigration reform, the Semiconductor...
Odds of getting hired at MGM can be low How is MGM Grand Detroit Casino dealing with the thousands of applications coming in for 1,000 new jobs at its permanent hotel and casino complex scheduled to open by the end of the year? ...
The American Electronics Association spent $256,000 in the second quarter to lobby on tax issues, customs and tariffs and trade measures, according to a mandatory disclosure form filed July 17. The trade group also lobbied on H-1B visas and immigration legislation, as well as funding for science, technology, engineering and...
Alberta has held job fairs in the USAtargetingimmigrants CHANTILLY, Va. -- Fawad Rehman can't wait to show his adoptive country his entrepreneurial streak. Rehman, an immigrant from Pakistan, plans to start a business school, similar to the one his family runs back home, and a construction...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- VentureOutsource.com announced today it presented Democratic and Republican 2008 U.S. presidential nominees Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) and Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) questions on outsourcing, immigration, and H1-B visas as part of the Company's Industry Interviews. VentureOutsource.com, an authoritative resource for outsourcing and offshoring, attracts...
While many of us working in the technology sector agree that the number of H-1B visas needs to be increased, this is a short-term fix to a much larger issue ("Uncapped Exodus," April). We have a world-class university system to which people from all over the world come...
Employers making a push for visa expansion. As the global competition for talent heats up, a debate is raging on Capitol Hill about whether to increase the number of skilled foreign workers allowed in the United States each year. Proponents of an increase, including Microsoft founder...
With an unemployment rate over 7 percent, employers in Michigan should be able to hire skilled talent for job vacancies with great ease. However, as Michigan experiences a dramatic exodus of both young and highly skilled professionals, the ability of employers to attract qualified professionals is not easy, and is...
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