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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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Which tech vendor had a week to rememberand which had one to forget? Which IT department needs a 'do over,' and which exec should be looking for a new job? On Fridays, we chronicle what went right and what went wrong in the IT world during the past ...

WASHINGTON: For all the heartburn and hoopla over H1-B visas and the flood of skilled guest workers coming into the United States, American companies are finding it hard to fill vacant positions with thousands of posts just waiting to be taken by ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday for another shot at persuading them to allow more foreign-born engineers to work in the United States for longer time. While in front of the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, which was celebrating ...

WASHINGTON (AP)--The leader of the immigration agency that grants citizenship is stepping down after a tenure in which he drastically increased the cost of becoming a U.S. citizen but failed to reduce the amount of time people must wait. Emilio Gonzalez, ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The leader of the immigration agency that grants citizenship is stepping down after a tenure in which he drastically increased the cost of becoming an American but failed to reduce the amount of time people must wait. Emilio Gonzalez, ...

HYANNIS, Mass. For years, William Zammer Jr. has relied on 100 seasonal foreign employees to turn down beds, boil lobsters and serve cocktails at the restaurants, golf course and inn he owns on Cape Cod and in nearby Plymouth. This summer, however, the ...

WASHINGTON: For all the heartburn and hoopla over H1-B visas and the flood of skilled guest workers coming into the United States, American companies are finding it hard to fill vacant positions with thousands of posts just waiting to be taken by ...

NEW YORK Diego Pillco, a 20-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador, had pleaded guilty in February to first-degree manslaughter in exchange for the sentence. He had faced 25 years to life in prison if he had been convicted at trial. Pillco, who was ...

irman Bill Gates has made a renewed push on Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to raise the cap on H-1B visas so that tech firms could hire more skilled workers from abroad and the US could retain its competitive edge. S Rajagopalan | Washington Microsoft ...

CHENNAI: 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 US consulate said on Thursday. The film industry employees had allegedly taken ...

Summary: Lou Dobbs claimed on his radio show that 'illegal immigration' is among 'the top three issues for American voters in both political parties.' In fact, no recent polls support Dobbs' assertion that 'voters in both political parties' consider ...

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03/11/2008 (Taiwan News) The Central Election Commission ended the accusations leveled at Kuomintang presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou () by his political opponents, saying that neither he nor his rival Frank Hsieh () hold citizenship in the United ...

NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's students are turning out in unprecedented numbers to vote in the presidential primaries. But instead of reading the newspaper and campaigning door to door, they are turning to the Internet and tools like ...

WASHINGTON: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked Congress on Wednesday for more visas for skilled professionals, echoing arguments often made by many in the tech sector. Gates told the US House of Representatives' Science and Technology Committee that the ...