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The number of Indian nurses wanting to work in Denmark has increased dramatically this summer – possibly in part to some shady recruiting companies in their homeland.
Between June and August, 4,507 Indian nurses applied for authorization to work in Denmark, up from only 30 last year.
The Association of Danish Regions, which administrates the nation’s hospitals, said it welcomed the news that so many had applied, but added it was unlikely that all applicants would be successful.
‘We are always happy to take on well-educated labor if the authorization is approved. But …

Microsoft’s Ballmer on H1-B Visas, Immigration
The Detroit Free Press recently interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who asked him why Microsoft in 2007 built a research and development facility in Canada–over the border in Vancouver–not that far from Microsoft’s quarters in Redmond, Wash.
Why not build it in the United States? Ballmer’s response:
While the Canadian R&D credit may have been a factor, it wasn’t the deciding one, Ballmer said. That would be immigration policy…”We opened the lab in Vancouver,” Ballmer said, “because we were having trouble getting visas for the best and …

BOLLYWOOD producers may join tourists, students and consumers ready to snub Australia unless more is done to stop escalating violence against Indians.
And the boycott may cost the nation billions of dollars as the fallout from attacks continues.
Yesterday, the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, a Mumbai-based film industry union, called on Hindi filmmakers to “avoid kangaroo country” until the crisis was sorted out.

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Meanwhile, a street cricket match involving Indian students and …

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Once the most sought after H-1B American work visa, still has nearly 20,000 slots open seven weeks after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) started receiving applications for the financial year 2010 beginning October this year.
The USCIS on Tuesday said it has so far received approximately 45,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the Congressionally-mandated 65,000 cap.
As such, the USCIS would continue to accept petitions subject to, till the cap is reached.
This is in contrast of the previous few years when the USCIS had to resort …

Few takers for H-1B visa jobs
rediff.com Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:42 PM PDT
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has received only half the 65,000 H1-B applications it requires to fill up the general quota category in the first five day after it began receiving applications April 1.

Alien workers not giving up hope on better status
Saipan Tribune Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:08 AM PDT
United Workers Movement NMI president Rabby Syed said they are not giving up hope that long-term foreign workers, overstayers with unpaid …

Visa program for skilled workers under attack
Los Angeles Times Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:36 PM PDT
A requirement that bailout recipients hire Americans over H1-B visa holders could be extended to all U.S. companies. As U.S. employers start applying today for visas for foreign workers, the hiring of talent from other countries is facing heightened scrutiny and the threat of greater restrictions as domestic unemployment soars.

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Ferry crash victim’s wife takes green card fight to Supreme Court
The Journal News Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:35 PM PST
MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) – A Caribbean woman whose husband of less than a year died in a ferry crash is taking her fight to get her green card to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ferry crash widow continues to fight green card denial
Staten Island Advance Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:32 PM PST
A former Staten Island woman whose husband of less than a …

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Obama opposes bringing nurses from overseas
rediff.com Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:43 PM PST
America like most of the Western countries is faced with acute shortage of nurses and in recent years it has allowed medical personnel from India, China and Philippines to immigrate to work in hospitals. Instead, Obama argued that the best possible approach to meet this shortfall is to train people inside the country.

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Increasing Indian and Chinese immigrants reverse brain drain (kalyansuman.com)

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Microsoft Guest Visa Use Will Stay Same Amid Firings (Update1)
Bloomberg Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:41 AM PST
March 3 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. , facing criticism for hiring foreigners while conducting job cuts, said it plans to keep its use of H1-B guest-worker visas at about the same level.

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US stimulus bill to hit Indians, other H1-B visa holders
Business Standard India Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:17 PM PST
The US Congress has barred firms receiving the government bailout from hiring Indians and other foreign workers through the skilled worker visa (H1-B) programme, if they are replacing American workers.

H1-B visa bar threatens Indians’ job prospects
The Hindu Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:58 PM PST
Washington: Nearly 1 lakh skilled Indian workers’ prospects of living the American dream may turn sour with Congress barring firms that received bailout …

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It’s True: There’s Fraud in the H1-B Visa Program BusinessWeek Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:31 PM PDT

US stung by high rate of H1-B visa fraud rediff.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 5:19 AM PDT Areport released on October 8 by the US Citizenship & Immigration Services reveals that 13% of petitions filed for H-1B visas on behalf of employers are fraudulent. Another 8% contain some sort of technical violations.

Pay-for-visa plan could revive Houston’s Old Chinatown
Developer is marketing the area to wealthy foreign investors
By PURVA PATEL Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Aug. 18, 2008, 3:39AM

Leonardo Carrizo Chronicle
In another effort to redevelop Houston’s Old Chinatown east of downtown, Dan Nip is courting foreign investors through a little used visa program.

Dan Nip’s tried twice already. But this time he thinks he’s figured out how to muster the development money to make Old Chinatown new again.
The answer may be in …