Controversy over bill to increase number of US H-1B Visas
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10:02 31/03/2015
Speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on March 17, Chairman Chuck Grassley said that a bill, sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch to increase the number of H-1B visas - "does not close the...
US immigration reform lobby group holds 'growthathon' for change
17:22 27/06/2014
FWD.us, the immigration reform pressure group founded by senior IT industry figures is holding a egrowthathonf to apply pressure to members of the House of Representatives to make them pass an...
US immigration: Spouses of some H-1B visa holders can work
13:03 12/05/2014
Two senior officials in the Obama administration have announced proposals to allow the spouses of some H-1B visa holders to work while in the US. Currently, spouses of H-1B visa holders are only...
H-1B cap 'costs US 500,000 jobs a year'
16:21 28/03/2014
The cap on the number of H-1B visas is costing the US economy one new job every 43 seconds, according to a tech industry pressure group. According to Dr Matthew Slaughter of Compete America, 500,000...
Immigrant sells WhatsApp to Facebook for $19bn
12:03 24/02/2014
Jan Koum, a Ukrainian who settled in the US, has sold his WhatsApp mobile app to Facebook for $19bn. Mr Koum, 37, left Ukraine for the US when with his mother he was 16. His story is a classic 'rags-...
Sorrell says UK and US need more skilled immigration
18:38 09/09/2013
The chief executive of the world's largest advertising agency, WPP, has said that the UK and the US need skilled immigrants to provide the staff for many different sectors of the economy including...
