Hope dims for H-1B visa holders' spouses

WASHINGTON: Amid fierce lobbying from the tech industry and organized labor, senators on Thursday hit a snag over a visa program for in the and decided to delay action on the issue until next week. The bill was carefully crafted by a bipartisan ...

A rift emerged between US business groups and organized labor over a high-skilled worker program in the Senate immigration bill. RELATED WASHINGTON: A rift emerged between US business groups and organized labor over a high-skilled worker programme ...

The United States of America is still a popular destination for students as well as job-seekers. Adam Kotkin, Vice-counsel at the US Consulate General in Chennai, on Thursday said: The applications for H-1B visas for the next fiscal years has been ...

The bill proposes raising the current base cap for H-1 B visas from 65,000 to 110,000 and eventually to 180,000.

BANGALORE: Last week, investors cheered Cognizant's robust sales growth and bullish June forecast but the celebration was mixed with caution as 80 per cent of its revenues are derived from the US, leaving the New Jersey-based company extremely ...

The Brookings Institution issued a new report on Friday about the H-1B program—a temporary foreign worker program for skilled occupations, meaning those that require a college degree—and then issued corrections to it almost immediately ...

9 positions representing 73.4 percent more than the base annual H-1B cap of 65,000 certified to be filled by an H-1B worker. In addition, 64.1 percent of the 175,806 certified H-1B applications from just 1 October to 31 December 2012 went to these ...

The US received nearly 50,000 packages of H-1B visa applications on the very first day, which is reflective of the sudden surge in demand of the country's most sought after work visas. The USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), ...

A report said contrary to the popular perception, India-based companies do not use up most of the yearly H-1B allotment. WASHINGTON: Challenging the assertion of several American lawmakers that H-1B visas grabbed by Indian IT professionals eat into ...