Technology sector wins big with US immigration changes
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12:55 23/08/2011
At a meeting in May at Stanford Law School, academics, executives, and lawyers were asked by US Federal chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra and USCIS director Alejandro Mayorkas what they could do...
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10:41 10/07/2011
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