H-1B Visa
The H-1B Visa Program provides American companies with the ability to employ foreign workers in the United States. This portal points to valuable H-1B resources on the web, and allows members to share their questions and experiences with... [more]
The H-1B Visa Program provides American companies with the ability to employ foreign workers in the United States. This portal points to valuable H-1B resources on the web, and allows members to share their questions and experiences with one another.
- Determine the prevailing
- Using a determination for the occupation and area issued under the Service Contract Act of the Davis-Bacon Act;
- Using a rate set forth in a collective bargaining agreement;
- Requesting that a SWA prevailing wage determination be made;
- Using a survey conducted by an independent authoritative source; or
- Using another legitimate source of information.
U.S. immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers. The inspections will occur during the government's 2010 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. The move marks a nearly five-fold increase in inspections over last fiscal year, when the agency conducted 5,191 site visits under a new site inspection program.
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From infoworld.com
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H-1B visa opponents have turned to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to overturn a 2008 Department of Homeland Security decision that the Programmers Guild, the Immigration Reform Law Institute and others claim is a back-door circumvention of the H-1B visa cap.
In a Nov. 13 filing, the coalition asked the Supreme Court to hear the case after a U.S. District Court in New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia both rejected...
From groklaw.net
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- H-1B Visa Fraud Makes for a Different Type of Cemetery Plot (feedburner.com)
- Tech workers take H-1B case to Supreme Court (search.live.com)
- The economy has led to a lower number of H-1B visa applications (search.msn.com)
Following nationwide arrests earlier this year involving fraud and abuse in the H1-B visa program, new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service promises a substantial increase in actual site visits to third parties employing H1-B workers. -
The USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service) plans to beef up its fraud and compliance assessment of the nation's
H-1B visa program, including increasing site visits from a little...
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From eweek.com
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In contrast to recent years, the current cap on H-1B visas - temporary U.S visas for those in specialty occupations, such as computer programmers — has yet to reach its limit. ...
From nhbr.com
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- WSJ Spin on H-1B Numbers (freerepublic.com)
- India asks for more H-1B visas, U.S. noncommital (feedburner.com)
- Yes Virginia, there are still H-1B Visas Available. (erblawg.com)
US immigration authorities have announced that they would accept petitions for H-1B visas, popular among Indian professionals, without the certified Labour Condition Applications (LCAs) for a 120-day period till March 4 next year in view of processing delay at Department of Labour.
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From business-standard.com
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