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CHICAGO, March 5 (Reuters) - Borders Group Inc cut 742 positions at Borders and Waldenbooks stores on Thursday as it tries to trim management levels and reduce costs. The job cuts represent less than 3 percent of the company's total workforce and come ...

Microsoft's top lawyer informed a U.S. Senator Tuesday that when it comes to its layoffs, the software giant won't be cutting its visa-carrying foreign workers before it cuts U.S. citizens. Instead, the ax will fall where it's needed, Microsoft (NASDAQ: ...

(STA) - A group of Slovenian intellectuals sent a letter to US President Barack Obama on Thursday, calling on him to support the application of the ex aequo et bono principle in the resolution of the sea border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia. The ...

Washington: Amid speculation that there would be reduction in number of H-IB visas, which has attracted large number of Indian professionals, a top immigration expert has said that the quota of 65,000 will get capped as the filing opens on 1 April. ...

0:42 IST Microsoft, which has recently announced shedding some 5,000 jobs, will be giving pink slips to H-1B visa-holders too, despite acknowledging that this category of workers has a significant contribution to the company?s success. Microsoft, in a ...

WASHINGTON: CEO and founder of popular site LinkedIn Reid Hoffman urged the US Congress and the Obama Administration to remove the cap on H-1B visas, which enable foreign nationals to live and work in the United States. LinkedIn is a popular ...

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:: Business Washington, March 4: Observing that the H-1B work visa programme helps hire the best available talent of the world, American software giant Microsoft has said H-1B visa holders has contributed significantly to its success. However, the ...

Washington: CEO and founder of popular site LinkedIn Reid Hoffman on Thursday urged the US Congress and the Obama Administration to remove the cap on H-1B visas, which enable foreign nationals to live and work in the United States. LinkedIn is a popular ...

Apologies for being away the last few days. I've been having back problems that made it difficult to work at a computer for very long. Anyway, time to get back to business. Tough economic times brings with it the ire of nationalism and whether companies ...

WASHINGTONThe federal government will rewrite its agreements with local and state law agencies that enforce immigration laws to provide greater guidance and control, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement official told a House panel Wednesday . William ...

The United States embassy has issued an alert on a visa scam fueled by fraudsters on the Internet. A statement from the Embassy in Kampala on Monday said the scammers send unsolicited e-mail and sometimes use attached official links to US government ...

Federally trained local police have arrested thousands of illegal aliens for minor crimes, instead of serious crimes such as drug trafficking, raising concerns of racial profiling, the US Congress said Wednesday in a report. Launched in January 26 with ...

Microsoft tells Senator Charles Grassley how it's dealing with the economic crisis and how its plans will affect U.S. and foreign workers Microsoft is not sheltered from the unprecedented crisis battering the global economy. In response to challenges we ...

PHOENIX A government report questions the effectiveness of a federal program, long criticized by immigrant advocacy groups, that deputizes police officers as immigration agents. Representative Lamar Smith says a program is working. Representative ...

Washington - An Eritrean man who was forced to serve as a guard in a military prison where inmates were tortured and killed has won another chance to obtain asylum in the United States. In an 8-to-1 decision Tuesday, the US Supreme Court reversed an ...

Bipartisanship in Washington DC: 'Most of the legislators from the luncheon attended as well as a few Senators such as Cornyn (R-TX). Rep. Pallone, founder and co-chairman of the Congressional India Caucus, addressed the group. Much to the disappointment ...

Washington, D.C - Today the Pew Hispanic Center issued a report on the ethnic composition of people caught up in the federal prison system. The Immigration Policy Center's Director, Angela Kelley, issued the following statement: 'A new report from the ...

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H-1B visa holders are likely to get pink slips from Microsoft despite acknowledging that this category of workers has a significant contribution to the company's success. The company has recently announced some 5,000 jobs cut. The H-1B work visa program ...