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Watchdog warns Foreign Office over data breach
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) after Channel 4 News alerted it to the fact that personal details belonging to visa applicants were accessible by anyone visiting certain websites.
[November 14, 2007, 14:50]
US high-tech visa quota already met
News The H-1B visa programme allows skilled foreign workers, such as programmers, into the United States for up to six years. The federal government has received enough H-1B visa applications to meet this year's cap, prompting one business group to call...
[February 19, 2004, 13:39]
Biometrics land at Gatwick
News UKvisas, a joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit that runs the UK's visa service, is already collecting fingerprints from visa applicants in more than 100 countries around the world.
[October 10, 2007, 8:30]
Bush hints door may open for more tech workers
News If so, the stage will be set for another round of debates about the practice of temporarily importing guest workers for tech tasks -- already a sore spot for critics of the H-1B and L-1 visa programmes.
[January 21, 2004, 13:59]
Offshoring: Why the US still needs engineers
News The H-1B visa is the classic visa that a graduating foreign student uses between the student visa and the green card. Should we be easing up some of the visa checkpoints? Making it easier for immigration would certainly help, because what is...
[June 30, 2004, 15:10]
US visitor visas 'ship middle-class jobs offshore'
News Patricia Fluno, also a technology professional, said she lost her job at a Siemens unit in Florida to a worker on an L-1 visa. Another controversial guest-worker visa program is the H-1B program. The hearing of the House Committee on International...
[February 5, 2004, 11:35]
Demand for US immigrant work visas rises in 2001
News According to Project USA, American companies pay H-1B visa workers less than the average American worker with the same amount of experience and education. But the survey has also sparked outrage among anti-immigration lobbyists, who say that H-1B...
[January 23, 2002, 15:12]
State Department technology under the spotlight
News His department's budget includes $210m for two major information technology initiatives: putting full Internet access on every State Department employee's desktop and connecting all of the department's posts to the classified communications...
[September 12, 2001, 10:00]
US commission to recommend ban on Net gambling
News If Visa can no longer collect on the debts, they're going to put a stop to the use of Visa credit cards for Internet gambling as a whole. Haines disputes her obligation to repay the money, and has accused Visa and MasterCard of aiding in an illegal...
[June 17, 1999, 9:27]
Foreign Office reports five data breaches since 2007
News That breach appears to be related to vulnerabilities with the UK visa-application website, run by contractor VFS in India. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has reported five significant data breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office in...
[August 4, 2008, 8:59]
Few "Foreigners" will have ID cards
Talkback Nick writes "Foreign nationals coming to the UK will be issued with ID cards from November this year under a scheme run by the UK Border Agency", but in fact only the tiny minority of foreigners needing a visa to stay here will be issued with "ID...
[May 27, 2008, 18:40]
Border Security: New Policies and Procedures Are Needed to Fill Gaps in the Visa Revocation Processes
White Papers In this report, GAO assesses the effectiveness of the visa revocation process and identifies the policies and procedures of State, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that govern their...
[December 22, 2004, 2:00]
Romania Meets EU Enlargement Criteria with Visa Processing and Migration Control Solution
White Papers To this end, the Ministry of Interior used the Microsoft .NET Framework to implement the ‘Cobra' visa processing system. Addressing concerns about illegal immigration, the solution integrates different databases from within the Ministry and from...
[March 3, 2004, 23:00]
Belgian Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs Improves Consular Services Abroad With .NET Technology
White Papers In a pilot set up by the Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs (a.k.a.the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), XML Web services are used to deploy and update applications onto the clients of the outpost operations Web services are also used to...
[July 21, 2003, 12:50]
UK falling victim to foreign card fraud
News In the meantime, Apacs recommended consumers sign up to secure online-payment services such as Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode, which currently have around 25 million users in the UK. In contrast, £121m was lost during the same period to...
[October 2, 2008, 8:11]
More stealth as outsourcing picks up speed
Talkback First, Congress was convinced, or rather bamboozled, into believing that a national emergency existed in the form of Y2k, when it did not -- allowing for an increase in the H1B Technical Visa program.
[January 4, 2004, 15:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, some people do care, and there are increasing tales of hapless hacks repatriated at the border for lack of a proper journalist I visa. Having heard contradictory stories of what you must do to get an I visa -- some say you can do it by post...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback H1B visa holders will eventually (hopefully) go home possibly leaving eastereggs in the software they wrote here. Keep in mind, American sofware is an important asset that must be maintained by loyal Americans and not by foreign nationals here on...
[October 12, 2005, 16:39]
US Report: Immigration battle looms for hi-tech staff
News Edward Kennedy -- want it modified to add new tools for the Department of Labour to investigate potential abuses of the H1-B visa program. Proposed legislation to increase the number of foreign high-tech workers allowed to enter the United States...
[September 22, 1998, 7:57]
A Year Ago: Immigration battle looms for hi-tech staff
News Edward Kennedy -- want it modified to add new tools for the Department of Labour to investigate potential abuses of the H1-B visa program. Proposed legislation to increase the number of foreign high-tech workers allowed to enter the United States...
[September 20, 1999, 7:00]
