The Department of Homeland Security announced a proposal recently that will allow the dependant spouses of those who hold H-1B US visas to gain employment while they are waiting for their green card, providing they hold an H-4 visa. The news has come as a welcome surprise to many of the Asian couples who are […]
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As Congress and the White House attempt to reach an agreement on the first overhaul of US immigration laws for 25 years, one point of very simple consensus would seem to be that the United States’ crop producers need a pool of workers that are both reliable and legal. All Americans, in fact, are affected
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The great majority of business executives are in full support of immigration reform in the United States, the results of the Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook survey indicates. Most of the participants in the survey agree that people with the correct set of skills in technology and science-based industries should be placed on the road
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American experts yesterday called for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) students to be given a green card, removing country-specific jobs and recapturing unused US visas in order to create new jobs in the United States and spur economic growth. Bruce A Morrison from the Morrison Public Affairs Group argued before the Enforcement of the
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Natives of Brazil, China and India can expect an expansion of the waiting period for them to receive US visas for visitors due to the fact that US officials have been raising concerns in the wake of spending cuts. The sequestration, which took place on March 1st, saw all State Department budgets slashed, according to
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Over the course of the past ten years the amount of approved applications for EB-5 US visas has risen exponentially, says Bloomberg. EB-5 visas offer immigrants the opportunity to be granted US citizenship providing that have invested a minimum of $500,000 in a company or have employed at least ten people. Foreign natives are also
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The Immigration Innovation Act of 2013, which was announced by Senators Marco Rubio, Chris Coons, Omin Hatch and Amy Klobuchar, would result in an increase in the H-1B US visas cap from the current limit of 65,000 to as many as 115,000, if not even higher. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News says that the measure
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Traveling from South Asia and India in order to study overseas in the United States can be a great challenge and there are many students who do not know precisely what they have to do in order to apply for US visas for visitors. Those who wish to apply will have to get hold of
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Microsoft has reported that in 2011 it had around 60,000 job vacancies that it found impossible to fill because of the shortfall of graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in the United States. The technology company has already raised concerns about the need to increase standards of education due to this
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Indian natives visited the United States in record numbers in 2011, the Economic Times says, a statistic that has pushed the Obama administration to make certain people exempt from having to attend personal interviews in the midst of the US visas process thanks to the Interview Waiver Program. The record of no less than 66,000
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President Barack Obama will soon be pushing for a big change to immigration law in the United States that would offer a form of conditional amnesty for around 11 million undocumented workers in the country as well as allowing for the importation of more skilled and unskilled workers and the speeding up of US visas
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