H-1B visa news from FierceCIO

U.S. authorities have begun examining guest worker visa programs more closely than before, and the resulting delay in H-1B visa processing could leave IT shops short-staffed at critical moments, Read more...

The demand for H-1B visas has been accelerating. After a quiet year that ended on Sept. 30, 2009, when companies did not exhaust the number of available visas, the landscape has changed in just two Read more...

A growing number of Indians in America--both temporary workers and permanent residents who have held lucrative high tech jobs--are now packing up and heading home to India, the Wall Street Journal Read more...

As the heated debate over H-1B visas intensifies, Indian firms may move their operations to Mexico as a way to dodge immigration restrictions in the United States. Mexican workers are allowed to work Read more...

There's usually a scramble for H-1B visas for foreign workers, most of them seeking IT jobs in the United States. But with the downturn in the economy and many projects on hold, the competition for Read more...

Since the economic slowdown began last autumn, there has been increasing controversy around H-1B visas--those temporary job visas that allow non-Americans to live and work in the United States, many Read more...

Oh what a difference a year makes. The loud, unrelenting demand to expand the number of H-1B visas available for software companies, IT firms and other employers, in order to hire foreign workers has Read more...

There is always controversy surrounding the H-1B visa program that allows U.S. companies to employ foreign nationals when American workers with equivalent skills are not available. Many technology Read more...

The $787 billion stimulus package has some small print that could affect many big institutions. Any financial institution that receives money from the government's troubled asset relief program is Read more...

A technology group identified billions of dollars in the stimulus plan for technology last week, but used the occasion to criticize the law for restricting companies receiving bailout money from Read more...