Washington: More than 5,45,000 tech jobs remain vacant in the US which is having a deep impact on Silicon Valley-based firms, American IT industry has said while arguing in favour of raising the cap on H-1B visas to attract the brightest minds from across the globe. “Silicon Valley’s advanced, traded industries power innovation and growth…
A federal district court denied an injunction request by technology workers under President Obama’s guest-worker program for spouses of H-1B visa workers. The plaintiffs, Save Jobs USA, said citizens would lose out jobs to the new guest workers but Judge Tanya Chutkan denied them an injunction, saying plaintiffs could not demonstrate the guest workers would…
Two important developments now dominate the news regarding the U.S. EB-5 investor immigrant program: Chinese retrogression and a recent U.S. Securities Commission crackdown on lawyers receiving commissions from regional centers. Chinese Retrogression The Chinese retrogression issue has been in the news for quite a while. In a good piece written in early 2013, U.S. immigration lawyers Tammy Fox-Isicoff…
Over the past decade, more immigrants have come to the United States from Asia than from any other region in the world, making Asians the fastest growing immigrant population in the United States. These immigrants bring their diverse cultures, language skills, and different economic and demographic traits from various Asian countries and the Indian subcontinent.As…
If all had gone according to plan, German Coppola would have been earning $130,000 this year as the senior vice president of sales and marketing at a U.S.-based data-capture company. Instead, the Spaniard’s application for an H-1B visa to work in the U.S. — along with tens of thousands of others’ — wasn’t even considered.…
NEW YORK: After five years, the US and India are back to the negotiating table on the contentious issue of a Totalization pact, which would entail giving back social security contributions to Indian workers who work temporarily in the country, and then return back to India. In all, four previous rounds of talks have…
With the May 26, 2015 effective date of H-4 spouse work authorization rule (“H-4 EAD Rule”) approaching, a lawsuit has been filed trying to block the implementation of the Rule, which allows spouses of certain H-1B visa holders to apply for work authorization. On April 23, 2015, Save Jobs USA, a group of former employees of Southern…
A defense budget amendment intended to open the military up to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as minor children may have died by a House vote last week, but a veteran immigration attorney said legislation is unnecessary because the Defense Department already has that authority. “The President already has statutory authority to let them…
EDITOR’S NOTE; This is the second of three stories about the impact of U.S. immigration policies. The series is written by Erica Nitschke, a Bismarck native and North Dakota State University student who was selected for a North Dakota Newspaper Association reporting fellowship in Washington, D.C. Bharat Verma’s flat-billed hat and zip-up hoodie may not…
There are many educated and talented international job seekers in the US and companies can hire them easily with the right paperwork and this is not as costly as the employers think. Employers only need to file a work visa called H-1B in order to hire the international candidate. Especially, employers in STEM fields are…