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According to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution news story, 'The issue of illegal immigration [on the Presidential campaign front], .. may soon see a revival effort.' For the full story, see here. We welcome readers to share their opinion and ideas with us ...

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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 ...

? 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 ...

Immigrant's Weekly - get the news that affects you. It's FREE! Join 15000+ subscribers Enter your email address here: We now turn attention to the rules and regulations concerning foreign physicians, and the programs designed to securing J-1 visas for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Here are some entries from Greg Siskind's blog. SAMANTHA BEE - FAKE JOURNALIST Canadian Samantha Bee is America's favorite fake female journalist, a title she likely won't dispute. She's risen up the ranks and is now the senior ...

visas received for one fiscal year. USCIS received about 133,000 H-1B visa petitions in two days, more than double the annual 65,000 cap. By April 30, USCIS also hit the cap on the additional 20,000 H-1B visas that are exempt for foreign workers who ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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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