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US high-tech visa quota already met

The federal government has received enough H-1B visa applications to meet this year's cap, prompting one business... Read more

19 February, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Demand for US immigrant work visas rises in 2001

...The US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) received 342,035 applications for H-1B visas between 1 October, 2000, and 30 September, 2001 -- a 14... Read more

23 January, 2002 by Rachel Konrad

Bush hints door may open for more tech workers

...workers for tech tasks -- already a sore spot for critics of the H-1B and L-1 visa programmes. "Should the Bush proposal be implemented... Read more

21 January, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Ex-Sun worker files discrimination suit

...that it developed a performance evaluation program that favoured the retention of H-1B visa holders in order to save money. An H-1B visa... Read more

19 March, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman
Are Foreign IT Workers Cheaper? U.S. Visa Policies and Compensation of Information Technology Professionals

Are Foreign IT Workers Cheaper? U.S. Visa Policies and Compensation of Information Technology Professionals

The use of H-1B and other work visas to hire foreign Information Technology (IT) professionals... Read more

1 May, 2010

Adopting the Indian perspective

...that about 2,600 of its employees in the United States held H-1B visas, while about 800 workers held L-1 visas as of... Read more

5 April, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim
What the Obama presidency means for tech

What the Obama presidency means for tech

Democrats in the White House and Congress may have significant repercussions for net neutrality, trade restrictions and copyright Read more

6 November, 2008 by Declan McCullagh and Stephanie Condon
Seagate: No tech recession on horizon

Seagate: No tech recession on horizon

Investors may be panicking, but Seagate chief executive William Watkins says business and tech trends paint a different picture from the one in the newspapers Read more

25 January, 2008 by Charles Cooper

Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas

...had been denied entry to the US for reasons to do with H-1B visa regulations. He says that US Customs officials detained him over... Read more

31 July, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

Microsoft plans Canadian development centre

...that could have come to the country each year under so-called "H-1B" visas. Hi-tech companies have been pushing hard to get Congress... Read more

6 July, 2007 by Anne Broache and Ina Fried

Google vs US immigration policy

...Google's policy council Pablo Chavez derides the country's stinginess with H-1B visas, the temporary permits given to foreign-born workers with specialised... Read more

7 June, 2007

Statistics mask tough job market

...out of the field are the importation of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program, the general economic downturn and a lack of positions... Read more

19 August, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Offshoring: Why the US still needs engineers

...can't come even if they wanted to. You're talking about H-1B visas? That is right. The H-1B visa is the classic... Read more

30 June, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

US visitor visas 'ship middle-class jobs offshore'

...to Hyde's office. Another controversial guest-worker visa program is the H-1B program. It lets US employers import highly skilled workers, such as... Read more

5 February, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Salary outlook remains grim

...presence of foreign workers in the United States on L-1 and H-1B visas. But not all the news for the tech labour force... Read more

7 November, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim

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