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If you're considering stuffing the H-1B visa ballot box with duplicate applications for the same job candidate to improve your odds that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will pick your visa petition in the random H-1B lottery next month, ...

Washington (PTI): The United States has proposed a new rule probihiting the employers from filing multiple applications for H-1B visa, widely sought by Indians, for the same employee to ensure a fair and orderly distribution of available visas. 'To ...

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Washington, March 20 (IANS) Amidst demands for raising the cap on H-1B visas for skilled professional, authorities have issued a new rule prohibiting employers from filing more than one petition for a single employee in a fiscal year. The change is ...

Companies seeking visas for highly skilled immigrants will be restricted to one application for each job candidate, according to the new federal regulation. Companies seeking visas for highly skilled immigrants will be restricted to one application for ...

While the debate over Indian outsourcing firms making the most of H-1B visas rages on, Indian firms' share of the temporary worker visas has actually come down by over 8,500. Leading Indian IT companies Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Satyam received fewer H-1B ...

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Meanwhile, the Programmers Guild wants visas based on salaries that firms will pay Share Top Stories March 19, 2008 (Computerworld) WASHINGTON -- With less than two weeks to go before the start of the H-1B visa rush, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...

WASHINGTON: The United States has proposed a new rule prohibiting the employers from filing multiple applications for H-1B visa, widely sought by Indians, for the same employee to ensure a fair and orderly distribution of available visas. 'To ensure a ...

A serial pedophile who has spent a total of 14 years in jail for offenses against boys as young as 13 will arrive in London tomorrow after being deported from Australia. As experts warn that he is likely to reoffend, Raymond Kenneth Horne, 61, will be ...

Washington (PTI): The US has barred employers from filing more than one H-1B visa application for a worker in a fiscal year, amid a growing clamour to raise the cap to allow more skilled professionals from India and other countries to work here. 'To ...

A new bill in the US Congress would double the number of H-1B visas available in the US each year. Grant Gross (IDG News Service)17/03/2008 10:16:19 A bill introduced in the U.S. Congress would double the number of immigrant worker visas available each ...

SDEROT, Israel: US Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday visited the rocket-battered Israeli town of Sderot, and defended the Jewish state's right to act against Hamas-run Gaza. 'No nation in the world can be attacked incessantly and ...

- NOTE TIME CHANGE - QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - March 19, 2008) - The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, and the Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada will hold a brief media availability ...

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A GOP House candidate running on an anti-illegal immigration platform scolded presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for turning down an invitation to visit his city and discuss immigration. Hazleton, Pa., Mayor Lou ...

WSWS.org An air strike on Sunday on a compound in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan that borders Afghanistan has left up to 20 people dead. While Washington has not acknowledged responsibility, there is little doubt that the US military or ...

For nearly 11 months, Francisco Castaneda asked officials at the immigration detention center where he was being held to treat a lesion he worried might be cancerous. Though several doctors repeatedly said Castaneda urgently needed a biopsy, government ...

CONCORD, N.H. --Weeks after a similar case was filed in California, a Nashua man has asked the federal court to rule that Sen. John McCain can't be president because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Fred Hollander filed suit against McCain and the ...

A Bangladeshi security guard who was granted protection from refoulement in the CNMI has sued the CNMI and U.S. governments for allegedly denying his rights to get his family members from his country.Mohammed Kamal Hossain, through attorney Edward ...