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A federal lawsuit has been filed in New Jersey charging the Bush administration with illegally making an end run around the current limits for the H1-B visa program. The Immigration Reform Law Read more...

American IT professionals often complain that they are being undercut by the H1-B Visa system when companies hire foreign workers at lower salaries even when qualified, tech-savvy U.S. citizens are Read more...

Microsoft is setting an interesting precedent by opening a new center near Vancouver, British Columbia that will allow the company to "recruit and retain highly skilled people affected by Read more...

As the market tightens and CIOs continue their global search for good technologists, they may want to carefully watch a new Senate proposal that would force high-tech companies to give priority to Read more...

Advocates of increasing the controversial H1-B visa limit are hoping that Congress passes the Securing Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership Act of 2006 (SKIL) before closing down for the year. The Read more...

With Election Day just around the corner, it's a good time to review who is for, and against, tech-related initiatives like the H1-B visa program, which would institute stricter federal rules on Read more...

> H1-B visa proposal stalled for now. Article > Why BEA has taken a "blended" approach with open Read more...

The phrase 'H1-B visa' elicits lots of vocal opinions on whether the immigration program should be expanded or not and the impact that such visa programs are having on the IT industry. Most Read more...

> U.S. hits H1-B visa limit. Article > Funlove virus rears up Read more...

The debate of the H1-B visa program promises to flare up again this week as a Senator is proposing a new bill that would raise the visa cap from 65,000 to 115,000. The new bill, being called Read more...