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Fewer applications for H-1B visas expected this year

Technology / Other

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With unemployment skyrocketing across the nation, tech and other companies this year are expected to request fewer visas for highly skilled foreign workers, according to industry experts.





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H-1B Scramble Hits Fever Pitch

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created Apr 01, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The months leading up to the opening of the H-1B filing season has been more dramatic than ever this year, due in part to the speedy exhaustion of visa supply last year, setting a new record.


Permanent admissions are better for US high-tech workforce than H-1B expansion

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created Mar 24, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Despite numerous government reports pointing out major flaws and weaknesses of the H-1B visa program, Congress is considering increasing the annual H-1B visa cap by at least 50,000 without strengthening safeguards to protect ...


Senate Bill Gives U.S. Workers First Dibs on H-1B Jobs

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created Apr 07, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

One of the longest-running defenses of the hotly debated H-1B temporary worker visa program is that there are simply not enough U.S. workers to fill out many corporations' programming, engineering and back-office positions, ...


H-1B Answer: Innovation

Technology / Other

created Apr 13, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

What technology company executive doesn't champion innovation? Innovation is held up as the holy grail of high tech. Innovation promises to better the world, raise living standards and provide a good job for everyone.


Visa change means fewer rural doctors

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created Feb 16, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Congressional changes to U.S. visa laws intended to help companies hire skilled workers have made it hard for rural areas to find doctors.


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US says speeding up visas for researchers

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created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The United States is speeding up visa applications for researchers and graduate students, an official said Thursday, hoping to ease a long backlog that raised fears that scientists would head elsewhere.


The global dynamics and spread of Hepatitis C virus 1a and 1b: A phylogeographical analysis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research published this week in PLoS Medicine finds that the global spread of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) coincided with widespread use of transfused blood and with the expansion of intravenous drug use but slowed before wholes ...


Missing link between fructose, insulin resistance found

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

A new study in mice sheds light on the insulin resistance that can come from diets loaded with high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener found in most sodas and many other processed foods. The report in the March issue of Cell Me ...


For treating advanced Parkinson's, new research points to serotonin

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

For most people with Parkinson’s disease, the only relief from the tremors, rigidity and impaired movement associated with the progressive loss of their motor skills is a drug called L-DOPA. But as the disease progresses, ...


Outsourcing jobs leaves the American white-collar worker behind

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created Jun 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Outsourcing might be good for American corporations, but it's not necessarily good for American workers, and it's likely to be bad for the American economy, even in the long run.



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