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Demand For US Immigrant Work Visas Rises In 2001
News H-1B visas allow foreigners with college degrees and relevant job experience to work in the United States, usually for technology firms looking for programmers and engineers. Many of the applications in the past year have been for visas in...
[January 23, 2002, 15:12]
UK Visas Relaxed For Indian IT Workers
News From now on, Indian software specialists will be able to apply for two year "multiple-entry" work visas that will allow them to visit Britain as many times as they like. It is thought that a total of 11,000 Indian IT professionals were given...
[November 1, 2001, 18:04]
Rise In UK Work Permits Sparks Alarm
News Work Permits UK, the Home Office body responsible for visas, has revealed that 33,756 permits were issued to overseas IT workers in the last 12 months — up 32 percent on the 25,000 the previous year. Most of the visas — 79 percent — were granted to...
[February 21, 2007, 9:26]
US Visitor Visas 'ship Middle-class Jobs Offshore'
News Sona Shah, a US citizen and computer programmer, told the committee that a former employer had abused the L-1 and other visas in the course of underpaying foreign guest workers and failing to give US employees work assignments or training.
[February 5, 2004, 11:35]
Government Pushes Forward With E-Borders
News The screening-system programme includes a £650m contract, signed on Wednesday, with consortia Trusted Borders for a passenger-screening IT system, which will work alongside the rollout of fingerprint visas.
[November 19, 2007, 12:14]
Lone File-swapper Takes On Recording Industry
Talkback For all the rest of you, please contact you governer, or congress man and DEMAND they start taxing for overseas work, and DEMAND they kill VISAs.or prepare to train your replacement like I have. I know that if you want people to BUY your DAMN cds...
[October 18, 2003, 6:31]
Bush Hints Door May Open For More Tech Workers
News India-based companies in particular have come under scrutiny for making heavy use of temporary visas and for the way their use of the visas may have accelerated the shift of tech work abroad -- another source of anxiety for US programmers and...
[January 21, 2004, 13:59]
Ex-Sun Worker Files Discrimination Suit
News The case is likely to fuel the fire over H-1B visas, which allow skilled workers into the United States for up to six years. Some tech workers have long questioned the need for such visas, claiming skilled Americans could fill the jobs and...
[March 19, 2003, 13:50]
Microsoft Plans Canadian Development Centre
News The announcement of Microsoft's Canadian plans follows the failure of an immigration bill that would have expanded the number of foreign hi-tech workers that could have come to the country each year under so-called "H-1B" visas.
[July 6, 2007, 9:42]
Offshoring: Why The US Still Needs Engineers
News You're talking about H-1B visas? Now that there are no more visas available, people can't come even if they wanted to. In other words, a student might be less willing to come to the US because they see that the number of H-1B visas is small and...
[June 30, 2004, 15:10]
They Bring Them In The Name Of KT
Talkback Previously they used come on business visas, now they have started coming on Work Permits for 2 years or so. The number of people coming over to UK for Knowledge Transfer [KT] has really gone up recently.
[February 21, 2007, 21:51]
IT Recruiters Claim Over-reliance On Foreign Workers
News Atsco obtained the data from Work Permits UK, the Home Office body responsible for visas. According to the Association of Technology Staffing Companies' (Atsco's) figures, 38,450 UK work permits were issued to non-EU IT workers in the past year...
[March 13, 2008, 10:24]
Tech Industry Cheers Bush Pick For DoJ
News Former senator, Spencer Abraham, Republican, Michigan, long a tech industry favorite for his work on increasing H1-B visas, has been tapped for energy secretary. ITAA president, Harris Miller, applauded Ashcroft's record on encryption, his work on...
[January 5, 2001, 8:46]
Indian Outsourcing 'saves US Jobs'
News In addition, the body stressed recent legislative moves in the US and the possible reduction of overseas H1B and L1 work visas stand testament to the "low awareness about how Indian IT industry and its professionals have benefited global...
[July 14, 2003, 13:48]
US High-tech Visa Quota Already Met
News Backers of the guest-worker visas warn that even more IT work would move offshore if they were eliminated. Many H-1B visas go to technology professionals. Congress raised the annual cap for H-1B visas to 195,000 for 2001, 2002 and 2003.
[February 19, 2004, 13:39]
Salary Outlook Remains Grim
News Critics also blame the outsourcing of tech work to countries such as India and the presence of foreign workers in the United States on L-1 and H-1B visas. What's more, the American Electronics Association trade group said in a report this year that...
[November 7, 2003, 8:10]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Think of the reason villages and parishes don't keep embassies and visas," remarks networking expert David Morton acidly, "and you'll see why I don't want to start working with Microsoft's 'trusted domains' and the like.
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
Furore Spurs Aussie IT Visa U-turn
News Had the original ruling -- reported by several media outlets and confirmed to ZDNet Australia late last month -- stood, several thousand imported information technology professionals working on 457 visas would have been affected.
[December 8, 2003, 9:00]
A Year Ago: Immigration Battle Looms For Hi-tech Staff
News The fear, according to Reinert, is that companies might replace full-time American workers with overseas workers brought in on H1-B visas to fill temporary jobs for which certain expensive benefits wouldn't be required.
[September 20, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Immigration Battle Looms For Hi-tech Staff
News The fear, according to Reinert, is that companies might replace full-time American workers with overseas workers brought in on H1-B visas to fill temporary jobs for which certain expensive benefits wouldn't be required.
[September 22, 1998, 7:57]
