Number of visas for IT professionals in Australia skyrockets
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13:32 12/06/2007
Watch This Video Australia 's Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) granted a record number of temporary employment visas for IT professionals during the nine month's prior to 31 March...
H-1B visa outsourcing abuse under investigation by US Senate
12:34 16/05/2007
• Watch This Video Two U.S. senators on Monday asked nine foreign-based companies to explain how they are using their United States H-1B work permits that they have obtained for their employees...
Quota for US H-1B Exemption visa reached for fiscal year 2008
16:42 07/05/2007
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on 04 May 2007 that they have received enough petitions requesting exemptions to fill the quota of 20,000. The exemptions are...
Indian outsourcing companies take the lion's share of U.S. H-1B visas
12:27 16/04/2007
• Watch This Video Last week, a computer randomly chose 65,000 petitions for coveted United States H-1B visas. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) had filtered through over...
H-1B petitions to be accepted by US on 2 April 2007
12:41 30/03/2007
The United States government will be accepting H-1B petitions starting on 02 April 2007. The new petitions will be subject to the fiscal year 2008 (FY 2008) cap. 31 March and 01 April are non-...
US Senator highlights concerns over H-1B visas
18:51 22/12/2006
U.S. Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has written a letter to Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao about her concern that employers were taking advantage of lax safeguards in the H-1B process...