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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is expected to be named as the new secretary of Homeland Security by President-elect Barack Obama--a move that may bode well for the high-tech industry, but disappoint Read more...

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The collapse of immigration reform in Washington DC is a setback for efforts to liberalize current H-1B visa policies, which would allow high-tech organizations to bring in talent from abroad to Read more...

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Given the new political climate taking hold in Washington, employers are getting ready to file to grab H-1B visas as fast as possible. Last year, the visa cap was hit just two months into the year, 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...

In what has to be music to the ears of techies who believe that the H1-B immigration program threatens U.S. IT professionals, it's becoming increasingly unlikely that the visa cap will be 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...

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...

The debate over how many H1-B visas the U.S. should allocate for the next year is gearing up as a hot battle in the halls of Congress. The House of Representatives clearly isn't aligned with Read more...