U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will begin a pilot deployment of smartphones running Research In Motion's new BlackBerry 10 OS early next year. The deal, announced Thursday, is the first major U.S. government agreement ...
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, may be getting ready to support legislation to grant green cards to holders of advanced degrees in the so-called STEM fields. Smith, the gatekeeper on immigration ...
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Monday marked the start of the 2013 federal fiscal year, and with it the release of a new batch of H-1B visas. The 85,000 H-1B visa cap, including the 20,000 visas that are set aside for advanced degree graduates with STEM (Science, ...
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A Republican-led effort to issue up to 55,000 STEM visas a year to students who earn advanced degrees at U.S. universities was defeated Thursday in a House vote. Because the bill was brought up on the suspension calendar, it needed a ...
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A group that monitors IT help wanted advertisements claims that there are many job ads specifically designed to recruit visa holders and not U.S. workers, a practice it charges is discriminatory. These IT companies often express in the ...
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A Brookings Institution report that looks at H-1B use in U.S. metropolitan areas is being criticized for its approach, as well as its research data. Some of the criticism is coming from Jared Bernstein, who until last year was a member of ...
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Despite the fact that technology plays an increasingly important role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. The still sluggish U.S. economy gets most of the blame for this wage ...
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Two U.S. agencies have seized 686 websites accused of selling counterfeit and illegal medicines as part of an international crackdown on online sales of fake drugs. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security ...
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Despite the fact that technology is playing an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. "IT salaries have not really kept pace with inflation," said Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, ...
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When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
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A U.S. House intelligence committee report warning that two Chinese networking companies are posing security risks to the country also includes allegations of job bias and visa fraud at one of the firms, Huawei Technologies. The report, ...
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Rice has drawn heavy fire from Republicans for remarks she made in the aftermath of a September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. "I am highly ...
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The U.S. House is moving closer to acting on legislation that would make green cards available to as many as 55,000 foreign nationals who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math -- the so-called STEM fields. ...
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The New York metropolitan area has the highest demand for H-1B workers in the United States, according to a new study that examines regional use of the work visa. That's followed by Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and Washington ...
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The Border Agency’s pound 385m Immigration Case Work IT (ICW) project is running pound 28m over budget and one year behind schedule, the National Audit Office has said. The agency is undertaking transformation of immigration and ...
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