The new procedure is the government’s first security change directly related to the Boston Marathon bombings last month. The order, effective immediately, was issued by a senior official at US Customs and Border Protection, David J. Murphy. It was circulated on Thursday, a day after the Obama administration acknowledged that a student from Kazakhstan accused [...] Read more »
Immigration bill increases visas for skilled workers, tightens rules
The Senate immigration bill outlined Tuesday attempts to meet long-sought demands from America’s technology sector for more high-skilled workers from abroad to fill the gap created by a shortage of American candidates. Under the proposed bipartisan legislation outlined Tuesday, the official quota of “H1-B” visas for high-skilled, foreign workers would increase by 69 percent to [...] Read more »
H-1B visa cap reached in first week; first lottery since 2008
A surge in the number of petitions for H-1B visas this year has led to the annual cap being exceeded in just five days, triggering a lottery, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS. The agency announced it had received more than 65,000 petitions for the financial year starting October 1 [...] Read more »
Immigration reforms mandatory to attract ‘best and brightest’: Obama
US President Barack Obama yesterday said that it was time for a comprehensive and sensible reform to fix the country’s broken immigration system in order to attract “the best and the brightest” the world has to offer. “Immigration makes us stronger. It keeps us vibrant. It keeps us hungry. It keeps us prosperous. It is [...] Read more »
US Senate immigration plan to double H1B visas brings cheers to tech industry
In a major victory for the tech industry, US visas for high-skilled foreign workers, including those from India, could double under a bipartisan Senate immigration plan, according to the Washington Post. The proposal would also give permanent legal status to an unlimited number of students who earn graduate degrees from US universities in science, technology, engineering or math, [...] Read more »
Qualified workers in short supply
A significant number of employers in major economies are having trouble finding qualified workers, a global CareerBuilder survey indicates. In the survey conducted by Harris Interactive in November involving more than 6,000 hiring managers and human resources personnel, CareerBuilder said 74 percent of respondents from China, 63 percent from Brazil, 57 percent from Russia and [...] Read more »
US to accept H-1B visa applications from April
The US will start accepting application for H-1B visa, the most sought after work visa by Indian IT professionals from April 1 this year, the federal agency USCIS announced. The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa which allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers. With the improvement in the country’s economy, and based on the [...] Read more »
US student visas to Indians rise year-on-year 50% in 2012
Issuance of student visas to Indians by the USA went up by 50 per cent in 2012, as compared with the previous year. The country welcomed students particularly in high-quality courses of mathematics, science and technology, Jonathan C Scott, Vice-Consul, Consular Section, US Embassy, New Delhi, said, as per a PTI report. Asked if America [...] Read more »
US immigration bill sets 8-year period for residency
The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today. President Barack Obama’s bill would create a “Lawful Prospective Immigrant” visa [...] Read more »
Obama for immigration reform to boost US economy
US President Barack Obama has made a strong push for comprehensive immigration reform offering a pathway to citizenship to “harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants” to make the US economy stronger. “Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants,” he said on Tuesday taking up the contentious issue of how [...] Read more »
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