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NEW DELHI: As the application process for the temporary H-1B visas begins on April 1, IT services companies are set to vie for the limited number of visas that would be decided through a lottery system in the likely event of demand exceeding supply. Even ...

With a crunch on H1-B applications expected, businesses have turned to an alternative: the L-1 visa. On April 1, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' office will be hit with an avalanche of H-1B visa applications for the 2009 fiscal year. If ...

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Not long ago, I got an illuminating e-mail from a woman who went off about how the federal government had to stop the 'invasion' of illegal immigrants from Mexico and how the Mexican government had to stop its people from ...

? Media Center Video Immigration News Bill Gates recently made an impassioned plea to the United States Congress to increase the H-1B cap, stating that it was in America's best interests to import badly needed talent to help the country stay ahead ...

Criticism by federal legislators is mounting against Indian outsourcing firms that use the H-1B visa foreign worker program to staff their U.S. operations. Critics claim that the Indian firms skirt regulations and use the visas to train workers in the ...

U.S. unemployment may be a concern, but tech companies are telling Congress they need more skilled workers from overseas. With the Apr. 1 application deadline for H-1B specialty worker visas looming, tech giants like Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL), and ...

WASHINGTON - The situation in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan where Al Qaeda has established a haven presents a 'clear and present danger' to the West, the CIA director said yesterday. Michael Hayden cited the belief by intelligence ...

WASHINGTON - The situation in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan where Al Qaeda has established a haven presents a 'clear and present danger' to the West, the CIA director said yesterday. Michael Hayden cited the belief by intelligence ...

CIA chief says US has interest in targeting area, terms it Osama's sanctuary WASHINGTON: The situation in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where al-Qaeda has established a safe haven, presents a 'clear and present danger' to the West, ...

Stacks of bins in the conference room at are a sure sign of spring. Attorneys and staff members at the Austin office are shuffling through piles of visa applications from employers who hope their picks for engineers, architects and software developers ...

Consumer confidence is down, unemployment claims are up, and the U.S. economy may already have slipped into recession. But starting tomorrow, the federal government will likely receive a record number of applications from employers seeking H-1B visas for ...

Thieves steal an average of four American passports a day, according to a report by the U.S. embassy in Costa Rica, noting that 1.348 passports were stolen during 2007. The numbers place Costa Rica in the top list of countries for stolen U.S. passports, ...

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CAMARGO, Mexico, March 30 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels have conducted military-style training camps in northern Mexico, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities. The camps are designed to train recruits, which range from Mexican military deserters to ...

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Islamabad: A plan to send US military advisers to train Pakistani border forces could begin as early as this summer. But the advisers, according to Western and Pakistani military officials, face serious challenges if they are to transform an ill-equipped ...

WASHINGTON: The situation in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan where al-Qaida has established a safe haven presents a 'clear and present danger' to the West, the CIA director said Sunday. Michael Hayden cited the belief by intelligence ...

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TORKHAM, Afghanistan - U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officers opened the first of six joint military intelligence centers along the Afghan-Pakistan border Saturday, an effort to cut down on militants' movement in a region of rising terrorist activity.The ...

Nearly 50 undocumented Cuban migrants who landed ashore at Hollywood shortly after midnight Saturday will be allowed to stay in the United States under the existing ''wet-foot, dry-foot'' policy, authorities said. Smugglers had brought the 46 migrants ...