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CIO August 12, 2009 Stephanie Overby |
H-1B Visa Sponsors: Surprise! You're Being Audited U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services has beefed up its anti-fraud auditing efforts this year with surprise site visits to companies that employ temporary non-immigrant visa holders. Corporate attorneys weigh in with tips on how to prepare for an H-1B visa audit. |
Entrepreneur October 2005 Joshua Kurlantzick |
In or Out? The immigration issue is as hot as ever, but it's no longer just a partisan debate. |
InternetNews May 15, 2007 Roy Mark |
H1-B Visa Reform Gains More Support The legislative agenda for H1-B visa reform in Congress grew more crowded today with another proposal to increase the number of skilled foreign workers available to the U.S. workforce. |
Job Journal October 29, 2006 Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Few Happy with High-Tech Visas US companies complain of long delays to import needed skills. |
InternetNews April 11, 2007 Roy Mark |
Bills Would Expand H1-B Visa Quotas Lawmakers seek to expand the number of foreign U.S. graduates for technology work pool. |
Global Services July 23, 2007 Juhi Bhambal |
Temp. Visas: Outsourcing's Thorny Issue As two Senators charge tech companies of bringing cheap foreign workers to the U.S., costing Americans their jobs, the thorny issue of supposed visa abuse once again mars an otherwise rosy outsourcing story. We trace the events of the last two months. |
InternetNews June 5, 2006 Roy Mark |
Poof! H1-B Visas Gone Four months before the 2007 U.S. fiscal years even begins, visas for highly skilled tech workers are already consigned. |
CIO October 18, 2011 Stephanie Overby |
H-1B Visa Processing Delays Threaten IT Project Success The U.S. government's increased scrutiny of guest worker visa programs is leading to lengthy delays in processing IT outsourcing companies' applications for H-1B and L-1 visas. These delays are making it even more difficult for some IT groups and outsourcing providers to complete projects on time. |
Inc. December 2005 Stephanie Clifford |
Cracks in the Melting Pot Visa restrictions are keeping entrepreneurial immigrants away, and they're finding new opportunities overseas. |
InternetNews June 28, 2007 Roy Mark |
H1-B Visa Increase Nixed With Immigration Bill Unable to muster 60 votes to cut off debate, Senate Democrats today tabled their efforts to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Debate over Scarcity -- and Skills -- of IT Workers According to the Information Technology Association of America's May study, U.S. companies will be short nearly 600,000 qualified IT professionals over the next 12 months. |
InternetNews April 4, 2007 Roy Mark |
H1-B Visas: One And Done One day after the opening of the H1-B visa program process, the 2008 allotment of 85,000 H1-B visas is already gone. |
CFO July 15, 2008 Kate Plourd |
Coming to America To plug the talent gap, finance departments are hiring foreign nationals - if they can obtain visas, that is. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 1, 2011 Carmen Nobel |
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators? The H-1B visa program, which enables US employers to hire highly skilled foreign workers for three years, is "a lightning rod for a very heated debate," says Harvard Business School professor William Kerr. |
BusinessWeek December 10, 2009 Moira Herbst |
Still Wanted: Foreign Talent -- and Visas With the U.S. jobless rate at 10%, continued hiring of workers from abroad may stoke controversy. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 22, 2014 Dina Gerdeman |
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don't Cost US Jobs Hiring skilled immigrants by United States high-tech firms not only doesn't push out existing workers, it creates job opportunities for all, argues William Kerr. |
InternetNews April 1, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft: H-1B Workers Needed Despite Layoffs The software titan's top lawyer lobbies online to expand the number of visas for foreign workers. |
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Roy Mark |
Tech Wins Big in Senate Budget Bill Differences still remain with the House of Representatives over DTV transition and H-1B visas. |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Tech's H-1B Hiring Faces 'Employ America Act' Bipartisan legislation is designed to limit foreign labor via temporary guest worker programs. |
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Spencer E. Ante |
Too Many Visas for Techies? U.S. workers gripe that lax rules may cost them their jobs |
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Roy Mark |
Senate Votes to Hike H1-B Visa Fees Amendment to immigration bill draws sharp opposition from tech coalition. |
CIO January 1, 2003 Stephanie Overby |
Cap On, Cap Off In 1998 and 2000, when high-tech companies asked Congress to raise the cap on H-1B visas (temporary permits that allow qualified foreigners to work in the United States), nary a legislator blinked. The cap, however, is slated to shrink to its original level in October 2003. |
InternetNews November 29, 2004 Roy Mark |
H-1B Visa Expansion Draws Praise High tech interests scored a late victory in Congress when the lame duck legislature increased the 2005 H-1B visa ceiling by 20,000 foreign workers. The visas are limited to workers with graduate degrees from U.S. universities. |
Global Services May 5, 2008 William B. Bierce |
The U.S. Presidential Race: Impact on Global Services-I Global enterprises will face new legal and regulatory trade and outsourcing policies, depending on whether Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John McCain wins the U.S. Presidential election in Nov. '08. |
InternetNews August 15, 2005 Roy Mark |
Game Over: Next Year's H1-B Visas Already Gone Early run on visa pool prompts tech calls for increased allocations. |
Chemistry World October 19, 2010 Akshat Rathi |
Immigration cap could spell disaster for UK science In June the government announced a temporary cap on the number of skilled workers from non-EU states that can enter Britain. |
CFO March 15, 2006 Don Durfee |
Help Wanted Why business should worry about the battle over immigration reform and its impact on the US economy. |
Entrepreneur October 2007 Joshua Kurlantzick |
Borderline Issues All is quiet on the immigration front - for now. But can small-business owners pull together to help bring about desperately needed changes? |
Salon.com October 19, 2000 Ed Frauenheim |
The scourge of Silicon Valley Anti-immigration crusader Norman Matloff says he's fighting for the rights of tech workers everywhere... |
Global Services May 27, 2007 Shyamanuja Das |
Protectionism v2.0: Anti-offshoring or Anti-Indian? Two members of U.S. Senate have sent out letters to nine Indian tech companies demanding to know how they are using the H-1B visas issued to them. |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2009 Hamm & Herbst |
America's High-Tech Sweatshops U.S. companies may be contributing unwittingly to the exploitation of workers imported from India and elsewhere by tech-services outfits. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2006 Elizabeth Feigin Befus |
Immigration Reform Is A Delicate Issue Immigration laws targeting employers should protect our borders without forcing businesses to comply with costly, onerous requirements when less burdensome options are available. At a minimum, employers should not be forced to participate in a flawed employment verification system. |
Industrial Physicist Oct/Nov 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
News Democrats & Republicans: What's the record on physical science? |
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Spencer E. Ante |
Keeping Out the Wrong People Tightened visa rules are slowing the vital flow of professionals into the U.S. |
InternetNews March 7, 2007 Roy Mark |
Gates: Swing Open The Talent Door Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told a Senate panel today U.S. immigration policies are slamming the door in the faces of the best and brightest talent at a time when America needs them the most. |
Reason September 2006 |
Immigration Now, Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever Bush's Border Bravado... Worse Than a Wall... A Legacy of the Unforeseen... Open the Borders... Exploitation or Expulsion... etc. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Spencer E. Ante |
Give Me Your Diligent, Your Smart America really needs to attract high-skilled immigrants. |
InternetNews March 12, 2008 |
Gates Wants More Professional Visas Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked Congress on Wednesday for more visas for skilled professionals, echoing arguments often made by many in the tech sector. |
InternetNews August 17, 2010 |
Border Security Bill Sends H-1B Visa Fees Soaring Newly enacted bill to secure the U.S.-Mexico border manages to stay budget-neutral by offsetting its $600 million cost by targeted increases to visas for foreign workers. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Obama acts to attract non-US scientists and engineers President Obama wants scientists and engineers that come to the US to study to stay and build successful businesses. |
BusinessWeek April 29, 2010 Peter Coy |
The Wailing Wall Illegal immigration - Arizona's agony - is a national failure. The business case for fixing the problem. |
CIO September 1, 2003 Christopher Koch |
Backlash As a growing number of IT jobs move overseas, some CIOs and economists prophesy a political storm against offshore outsourcing. |
BusinessWeek June 4, 2007 Michael Mandel |
Globalization vs. Immigration Reform Can we have free flow of goods and capital without free flow of labor? |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2009 Tim Beyers |
This Is the Next Great Tech Market India is more than an emerging economy. Mumbai and Bangalore, together, may be the world's next alternative to Silicon Valley. |
InternetNews November 5, 2008 |
Tech's Eyes Turn Now to Obama, Dems The new administration promises change, but how will that play with the IT and Internet industry's agenda? |
InternetNews July 6, 2007 |
Microsoft: North to Canada Microsoft said it plans to expand its presence in Canada by opening a new software development center in the greater Vancouver, British Columbia, area. |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft to Layoff Some H-1B Holders Microsoft is laying off those it can most do without, citizens or not. |
CIO December 15, 2003 Grant Gross |
A CIO's Agenda for 2004 CIOs critique Congress on a national plan for Internet sales taxes and raising H-1B visa limits. |
InternetNews February 1, 2006 Roy Mark |
Tech Embraces Bush Call For U.S. Competitiveness Praise rolls in for President Bush's new agenda focused on increased spending on innovation and education in the U.S. |
InternetNews March 3, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Fires Back in H-1B Workers Spat Despite pressure from Sen. Grassley, Microsoft's top lawyer says it doesn't plan to lay off H-1B workers before U.S. citizens. |