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Republican presidential candidate John McCain this week outlined his technology policy, a plan that he said would encourage American innovation and competitiveness through tax breaks and incentives... Read more...
A federal judge in New Jersey refused to stop a federal Department of Homeland Security policy extending foreign student visas from one year to 29 months. The Programmers Guild, the Immigration... Read more...
Legislation to make it easier for foreign high tech workers to stay in the U.S. ran into a bit of a buzz saw last week from one lawmaker who wants the same kind of equity for immigrants further down... Read more...
Apparently not even Google can always get its way, at least when it comes to hiring foreign nationals and having them stay in the U.S. Like so many others in the IT field, Google claims to be... Read more...
It's a presidential election year, and with limited time available in the 2008 session, and little appetite for rocking the boat, any reforms of the U.S. immigration system will not be on the... Read more...
The IT community knew that nothing was changing this year for H-1B visas. And so it comes as no surprise that it took just a week for government authorities to announce that the number of visa... Read more...
While the fight continues over H-1B visas, some companies have been tapping into another kind of visa to get approval for foreign IT workers in the United States. They're called L-1 visas and they... Read more...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is looking for answers from the Bush administration, and soon. Grassley wants to know what progress has been made to make administrative changes to ease the difficulty in... Read more...
It's that time of year again, when there is a rush for H-1B visas. Federal officials anticipate it will take exactly one day--April 1--for applications for the 85,000 visas to be snapped up. And... Read more...
The U.S. government opens the floodgates, sort of, on April 1 when it begins accepting this year's applications for H-1B visas. The issue is an important one for the tech industry, which is looking... Read more...