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WASHINGTON: A deep recession and surging unemployment have tamped down the usual frenzied rush of companies filing temporary visa requests to hire skilled foreign workers, and the five-day application period that ended this week has been extended. ...

Updated Speaker List and Corrected Dial-in Directions! ***TELEPHONIC PRESS BRIEFING -- Today at 2 p.m.*** *Call in 800-895-0231, Conference ID: 7ECONOMY* The Immigration Policy Center (IPC) will release a wide-ranging review of academic and government ...

The U.S. Army is stepping up efforts to recruit more skilled soldiers by offering immigrants a fast track to U.S. citizenship if they enlist. The move comes as the Pentagon prepares to send several thousand more troops to Afghanistan and with the war in ...

The U.S. Army is stepping up efforts to recruit more skilled soldiers by offering immigrants a fast track to U.S. citizenship if they enlist. The move comes as the Pentagon prepares to send several thousand more troops to Afghanistan and with the war in ...

Unlike most of his competition, Fowler refused to hire illegal immigrants. But time after time, other contractors got the job because they had cheaper labor. 'When half your crew is illegal, you can underbid by 10 percent anytime,' Fowler, 50, said. On ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received approximately 42,000 H-1B petitions counting toward the 65,000 cap for fiscal year 2010. The agency continues to accept petitions subject to the general cap. Additionally, the agency has received ...

Lalit K Jha Washington, Apr 13 (PTI) Indians topped the list of the most sought-after H-1B work visas for highly skilled categories in the US last year, accounting for a whopping 37.8 per cent of the 409,619 admissions, an official report said. Indians ...

WASHINGTON: As the US is having a tough time in filling up its annual quota of 65,000 H-1B work visas for highly skilled categories, an official report here has said that the Indian nationals accounted for the 38 per cent of the total H-1B visas issued ...

As the US is having a tough time in filling up its annual quota of 65,000 H-1B work visas for highly skilled categories, an official report in Washington has said that the Indian nationals accounted for the 38 per cent of the total H-1B visas issued by ...

Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the Los Angeles native - in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill, and never able to read or write - signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to ...