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4 Work-Arounds to the H1B Problem: CEOs, especially those involved in high tech, see the same pattern year after year. They desperately need high-level, foreign workers since universities in the U.S. are not turning out enough software writers and computer engineers. Yet nothing ever seems to get done in Congress to boost the...; Tags: Peter Galuszka, L-1 visa, visa, H1B Problem, Paul Colman, Visa Inc.; Blog posts 2008-05-06

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VISANOW Shares Insight on Why Companies Are Filing for L Visas in Lieu of the Popular H-1B: With uncertainty surrounding H-1B visa availability, employers look to the L visa to hire specialized foreign talent CHICAGO -- The last two years has proved challenging for many companies attempting to file H-1B visa applications for new foreign employees. According to leading immigration solutions provider VISANOW, the demand...; Articles 2008-03-25
The useand abuseof l-1 visas: growing use of l-1 visasand allegations of abuseare affecting all employers: The L-1B visa has become more than just a procedure for employers transferring their foreign workers to U.S. posts for temporary assignments. The visa is now practically combustible, the center of rising discontent among some immigration and employment experts. Many contend that the L-1B, introduced in 1970 to...; Articles 2006-07-01
Temporary manager visas used to circumvent limits.(NATION): Byline: Stephen Dinan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES One of the country's temporary work visa programs, used particularly by foreign technology workers, is being abused by companies looking to get around protections for American workers, according to a new government report. The L...; Articles 2006-02-10
My dear brother! Get me a green card.: Byline: Ishani Duttagupta Aug. 1--It's not just H1B or L1 visas which Indians queue up for. In fact, the Family Fourth Preference or F4 category, under which brothers and sisters of US citizens, and their spouses and children, are eligible to apply for...; Articles 2005-08-01

US opens visa gates to Indian techies.: Byline: Indrani Bagchi Apr. 15--NEW DELHI -- The US senate this week decided to shelve legislation on the L-1 visas until later this year. This provides a strong signal to offshore companies that the US will continue to welcome imported tech skills. ...; Articles 2005-04-15
Closing loopholes in l-1 visa legislation: new guidelines enforce stricter compliance by U.S. companies.(MANAGEMENT): If your company employs foreign nationals, you need to review the latest visa legislation coming out of Congress. It might have significant impact on your hiring practices. Visa reforms recently approved by the Bush administration represent a mixed bag for high-tech...; Articles 2005-04-01
Visa program gives firms another way to import workers: When Celestica Inc. announced it was closoing its Salem plant last month - and laying off 420 workers because it could manufacture more competitively on foreign soil - a curious fact wasn't mentioned. During the last three years, the high-tech manufacturing firm imported 54 foreign employees into New Hampshire, supposedly...; Articles 2005-04-01
Law boosts visa fees.(Small Business): Byline: Michael Sharon Congress is making substantial changes to the H-1B and L-1 visa processes, increasing fees among other new restrictions, which will make it more difficult to hire foreign nationals. In the Omnibus Appropriations Bill (H.R. 4818) are provisions that ...; Articles 2004-12-13
Additional U.S. H-1B visas won't be issued soon.: Dec. 11--NEW DELHI, India -- If you thought you could make a dash for one of those 20,000 cap exempt H-1B visas, then it's time to slam the brakes. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service has issued a clarification saying that applications for the 20,000 cap exempt...; Articles 2004-12-11
Additional U.S. H-1B visas won't be issued soon.: The Economic Times, India Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 11--NEW DELHI, India -- If you thought you could make a dash for one of those 20,000 cap exempt H-1B visas, then it's time to slam the brakes. The US Citizenship and Immigration...; Articles 2004-12-11
New U.S. H-1B visa rule a boon for Indians.: The Economic Times, India Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 10--NEW DELHI, India -- It's happened at last. US President George W Bush has signed the Omnibus Appropriations Bill 2005 into law -- Consolidated Appropriations Act 2005. So what...; Articles 2004-12-10
New U.S. H-1B visa rule a boon for Indians.: Dec. 10--NEW DELHI, India -- It's happened at last. US President George W Bush has signed the Omnibus Appropriations Bill 2005 into law -- Consolidated Appropriations Act 2005. So what we have is 20,000 extra H-1B visas before the new fiscal begins in...; Articles 2004-12-10
Immigration Client Alert - H-1B And l-1 visa Reform.: Two new immigration laws affecting the L-1 and H-1B visa categories were recently passed by Congress. The House of Representatives is expected to pass a final technical amendment to the legislation on December 6, 2004, before sending the bill to the President for his signature. Employers and foreign national employees...; Articles 2004-12-07
Measure to close loophole in regulations for L-1 tech visa.: By Karl Schoenberger, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 26--An immigration reform measure quietly passed by Congress could sharply limit how Indian offshoring companies use low-wage technology workers on temporary visas in the United States. ...; Articles 2004-11-26
RESTRICTIONS ON VISAS TO AFFECT FUTURE PROSPECTS: INDIA'S TCS.: MUMBAI, June 14 Asia Pulse - A restriction and 200 per cent cut on the number of H1-B visas for Indian nationals visiting and a backlash against outsourcing in the US is likely to have an "adverse impact" on the future prospects of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd TCS, the largest...; Articles 2004-06-14
2004 Election: When we visited with him last summer, Mike Emmons, a former programmer at Siemens ICN in Florida, was so angry to see his job filled by a nonimmigrant worker on an L-1 visa, that he talked of getting even by running for Congress this year. (See "The Radicalization of Mike...; Articles 2004-03-15
Debate Brews Over Jobs: Legislation targeting offshore outsourcing and a plan by President Bush to welcome more foreign labor are fanning the election-year debate over jobs—and sending a mixed message to CIOs who are trying to develop outsourcing plans. Last month, N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, endorsed...; Articles 2004-03-15
Engineers fear offshore outsourcing is contributing to high jobless rates.: An unprecedented high unemployment rate of 6.7 percent among electrical and electronics engineers and an even higher unemployment rate of 8 percent among engineering managers is creating a growing level of anxiety within the engineering community. Engineers fear that the situation will not improve in the...; Articles 2003-11-04
Fewer U.S. visas slated for foreign workers: CAREERS One of the visa programs used to bring foreign workers into the United States recently became smaller, and some members of Congress are proposing that another be reduced. H-1B visas allow special professional workers, usually those with college degrees, to work in the United States for up to six...; Articles 2003-11-01

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