Proposed US law would grant 125,000 more business green cards a year
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13:27 18/02/2013
A group of four senators has proposed a new law that would see the US government grant 125,000 more employment-based green cards each year. The Startup Act 3.0 would grant 75,000 green cards (...
US think tank calls for more visas for medical professionals
17:47 07/02/2013
A recent report from the National Foundation for American Policy, a pro-immigration think tank based in Arlington, Virginia, has found that the US immigration system is putting obstacles in the way...
Microsoft presses US immigration for H-1B reform
9:18 21/01/2013
Last year, Microsoft reported that it was looking for qualified IT professionals. Last September, it announced that it had 6,000 vacancies that it could not fill, 3,400 of these were IT roles. It...
US firms finding it harder to get L-1B 'specialized knowledge' visas
9:54 08/10/2012
US firms are concerned that it is getting harder to transfer skilled staff from offices outside the US using the L-1B visa. Fifty leading US companies, including Microsoft and Oracle, wrote an open...
Alabama's anti-immigration law fails to increase jobs for US citizens
16:02 26/09/2012
A law introduced last year to crack down on illegal immigration in the US state of Alabama has failed to deliver the benefits for local people that its sponsors predicted, according to US government...
US invites illegal immigrants to apply for right to remain
13:44 16/08/2012
President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme comes into force today (Wednesday 15 th August 2012). The scheme allows some young illegal immigrants to apply for a determination...
