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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...

US report: number of immigrant business startups has fallen

13:21 04/10/2012
A new report published today says that the number of businesses set up by immigrants in the US is falling. The report's authors and backers hope that it will influence the immigration policies of the...

Obama tells Hispanic TV station that biggest failure was on immigration

16:00 25/09/2012
President Obama gave an interview to Univision, a Spanish language broadcaster on Wednesday 19th September 2012 and said 'my biggest failure so far is we haven't gotten comprehensive immigration...

Hard-line Republican stance on immigration may make it a US election issue

16:38 24/08/2012
Mitt Romney will campaign for the presidency of the United States in November on a hard line anti-illegal immigration policy. The new 'platform plank' was adopted by Republican Party leaders just...

US issues record number of visa to Ghanaians

17:34 10/07/2012
The US has announced that a record number of US visit visas were issued to Ghanaians in 2011. According to the US Embassy in Ghana, over 12,000 Ghanaians were issued with visas to travel to the US in...

Study shows more foreigners than US citizens applying for US patents

18:28 04/07/2012
A new study has revealed that foreign students and researchers file 76 percent of patents at America 's top universities. The study, released Tuesday, follows another recently published report that...

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