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Washington: Describing the cap on H-1b visas as arbitrary and counter-productive, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates demanded a revamp of US immigration policies to allow skilled foreign technology workers from India and other countries to come in greater ...

TANGRAI, Pakistan #8212; U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan fired across the border into Pakistan in a strike targeting Taliban militants, and the Pakistani army said Thursday that civilians were killed. Feed: Yahoo News Login or register to post comments ...

CHENNAI, India -- Around 200 Indians, including many film actors and producers, have been banned for life from travelling to the United States over their part in a visa racket, the U.S. consulate said Thursday. The film industry employees had allegedly ...

The H-1B visa issue appears to be heating up again. Microsofts Bill Gates yesterday made his , to tell the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee that H-1B limits are discouraging talented foreign graduates of American universities ...

in a packed firehouse in Gilford, N.H., Fergus Cullen watched Arizona Sen. John McCain getting 'hammered on immigration' in a back and forth with locals angry over the influx of illegal workers. 'They kept coming back to it again and again,' says ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an import alert and plans to test all shipments of the drug heparin before they enter the country. Multiple batches of heparin sold by Baxter International have been been found to contain a mysterious ...

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Several south Indian film personalities have been barred from the US for their role in a visa scam, the US consulate in Chennai said yesterday. Indians wishing to emigrate have apparently been paying film industry figures to pretend to hire them to work ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials have ordered all imports of the blood thinner heparin, and its raw ingredient, stopped at the border for testing to detect a contaminant linked to 19 deaths.The Food and Drug Administration announced the move Friday, ...

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates clearly got through to some politicians on Capitol Hill earlier this week. Late Thursday, a U.S. House of Representatives Democrat on the Science and Technology Committee, which Gates addressed, introduced a bill that would ...

OTTAWA - Canada may see itself as a nation of immigrants, but more than 10 times as many of us move to the United States every year as Americans who move here, a new report from Statistics Canada reveals. The report, released Thursday, focuses on ...

Representative Benjamin Swan from Springfield, Massachusetts, a Democrat has called for the granting of citizenship to all Liberians as reciprocity for automatic citizenship granted African Americans by the Republic of Liberia for over a hundred years. ...

WASHINGTON: American businesses are finding it hard to fill skilled positions even as H-1B visas that bring in foreign professionals, including a large number from India, are creating jobs in the US, shows a new US study. Confirming Microsoft Chairman ...

News at glanceLatestPoliticsWeb SpecialWorldState ScanSportsCricketBusinessEntertainmentTechnologyDiasporaColumnsReal EstateMatrimonialAutomotiveHome NewsDiasporaFull Story News Friday,14 March 2008 12:54 hrs ISTH-1B visas creating jobs in US: study ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Congress would double the number of immigrant worker visas available each year under the H-1B program, earning the legislation praise from Microsoft. The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an ...

Editor's note: Here are some entries from Greg Siskind's blog. So you thought I would only be writing about kickers and punters this week, right? I'm happy to include Estonian-born Michael Roos because I'm also a long time fan of the Tennessee Titans. In ...

WASHINGTON: U.S. health officials have ordered all imports of the blood thinner heparin, and its raw ingredient, stopped at the border for testing to detect a contaminant linked to 19 deaths. The Food and Drug Administration announced the move Friday, ...

Immigrant's Weekly - get the news that affects you. It's FREE! Join 15000+ subscribers Enter your email address here: This article covers a stringent requirement that has become quite a dilemma for a large number of J-1 recipients. Many people who come ...

WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two weeks ago it was reported that John McCain's campaign approved a package of enforcement-only bills drafted by Senate Republicans to use immigration as a wedge issue. [washingtontimes.com, 3/6/08] The ...