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Friday, April 11, 2008
USCIS Releases Preliminary Number Of FY 2009 H-1B Cap Filings
USCIS announced a preliminary number of nearly 163,000 H-1B petitions received during the filing period ending on April 7, 2008. More than 31,200 of those petitions were for the advanced degree category. read more...

Friday, April 11, 2008
USCIS Announces Update for Processing Petitions for Nonimmigrant Victims of Criminal Activity
USCIS announced today that, until further notice, it will not terminate interim relief for aliens who have not yet filed for U nonimmigrant status, except in those cases where USCIS is aware of adverse factors. USCIS will continue to accept petitions for U nonimmigrant status at any time. read more...

Friday, April 11, 2008
AILA Announces Citizenship Day 2008
On April 19, the AILA will sponsor “Citizenship Day 2008,” a single-day workshop with sites around the country providing assistance to lawful permanent residents eligible for naturalization. read more...

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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Immigrants and Taxes: Contributing, Not Collecting
As the baby boomers creep towards retirement and begin to strain the SSA, immigrants will be subsidizing Social Security benefits, making retirement possible for millions of Americans. read more...

Saturday, May 31, 2008
LCA Decisions published on VisaPortal.com
Labor Condition Applications and Requirements for Employers Using Aliens on H-1B Visas in Specialty Occupations are published on our immigration portal. read more...

Friday, February 08, 2008
Obama on Immigration
These are the positions of the junior Senator from Illinois on immigration issues. read more...

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Greenspan: H-1B cap would make U.S. workers 'privileged elite'
Tells Senate subcommittee quota too small, would protect workers from global competition
By Patrick Thibodeau
ComputerWorld.com
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan today offered a spirited defense of the controversial H-1B program, telling a U.S. Senate subcommittee that the visa quota is "far too small to meet the need"...

Weak Economy Dampens Demand For H-1B Visas
One week into the new H-1B visa season, petitions are still being accepted.
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
On April 1, US Citizenship and Immigration Services began accepting petitions for employers to hire foreign workers with H-1B visas in fiscal 2010, which starts Oct 1. Now, one week into the new H-1B visa season, USCIS is still accepting those petitions.

Demand for H-1B visas tumbles
U.S. applications for the visas are a third of what they were a year ago; sharp drop likely due to recession
By Patrick Thibodeau
ComputerWorld.com
The initial demand for H-1B visas is off sharply from last year, with the federal government receiving only about a third of the visa petitions it received this time last year.

Feds count H-1B applications as engineering unemployment spikes
Visa filings began April 1; IEEE-USA reports higher unemployment among engineers in Q1
By Patrick Thibodeau
ComputerWorld.com

White House says U.S. needs H-1B visas to avoid 'competitive disadvantage'
Obama administration defends H-1B rule in lawsuit challenging 2008 Bush ruling on visas
By Patrick Thibodeau
ComputerWorld.com
President Barack Obama has so far reversed a number of actions taken by President George W. Bush -- on embryonic stem cell research, species protection and medical research -- but his administration has so far shown no interest in reversing...

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