Much of the media coverage surrounding the effort to reform the United States’ outdated and incredibly inefficient immigration system has focused on the controversy surrounding those Republicans who are in favor of comprehensive immigration reform and those who are not, but lately that coverage has begun to shift, as the Democrats are also an important […]
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A breakthrough compromise was reached yesterday on the Senate’s leading immigration bill that requires firms to make a “good faith” attempt to hire workers from the United States for high-skilled technology jobs, but nonetheless eases a number of the stricter hiring requirements that would have been faced by many companies under some of the earlier
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A new amendment in the debate over immigration was unanimously passed on May 14th last week. The brand new law allows for more monitoring of students from overseas and requires the Department of Homeland Security to put into operation the “real time transmission” of student’s US visas information to databases across the country that are
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Organized labor and the technology industry are locked in a fight that is threatening to undermine the immigration bill currently before the US Senate. At the centre of the argument is the question as to whether or not there is a shortage of US workers who have the science and math requirements necessary to work
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Hi-tech firms who are looking to bring in more skilled workers to the United States yesterday pushed for further concessions in the immigration reform bill that is currently under discussion in the Senate. However, labor unions say that Silicon Valley has gotten plenty from the legislation already and that any further changes risk removing protections
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The US Senate is planning to crack down on companies that abuse the H-1B system by outsourcing technology jobs with brand new rules to be issued by the legislation on immigration. An outline from the Senate suggests that IT sourcing companies, the great majority of which are based in India, are the main recipients of
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The proposed reforms to immigration laws could assist agricultural workers to remain permanently in the United States and result in the creation of new visas that would be of great benefit to horse and dairy farms that do not rely on seasonal help. CNN claims that agricultural workers that are currently living in the United
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Farmers in New England and New York will find that it is considerably easier for them to be able to get a hold of a more reliable labor force after the sweeping changes to the immigration laws in the United States that have been proposed in the new 844-page bill that was presented to Congress
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USA Today reported on Tuesday that they have been in receipt of a draft legislation bill on immigration reform from the White House. The newspaper says that President Barack Obama is intending to unveil a “Lawful Prospective Citizen” category of US visas that will include children and spouses (even if currently living overseas) who will
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A broad bill for immigration reform in the United States could be introduced to the Senate as early as next week following the news that negotiators have managed to agree on one of the trickiest aspects of the deal, that of creating a US visa system for temporary workers. Differences between labor unions and business
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The United States is experiencing a boom in tourism with several countries now being eligible for the visa waiver program. In 2012 the Obama administration made a number of efforts to try and welcome more overseas visitors to the United States due to the fact that some foreign-born visitors were being forced to wait over
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