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H-1B Recruiting Companies Sue USCIS, DHS over Changes

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Industry group TechServe Alliance, the American Staffing Association and three staffing companies specializing in H-1B visa holder candidates are pursuing a lawsuit in federal court to protest a ruling that they claim is killing business. At the heart of the matter is the government’s effort to weed out fraud and abuse while making sure employers have daily supervision over H-1B visa workers. – Staffing companies that specialize in recruiting H-1B visa
holders for technology positions are pushing back at Uncle Sam with a lawsuit.
A senior official of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, Donald Neufield, published a memo in January changing the rules for what
constituted a tr…

Professor Blasts Research on H-1B Visa Workers Earning Higher Wages

May 27th, 2010 | No Comments

A University of California professor refutes claims made in a recent University of Maryland study that H-1B visa holders make more money than U.S. technology workers. Professor Norman Matloff dissects the wage numbers used, finds what he claims are critical omissions and discusses his own studies and others which found the majority of H-1B visa holders earn 15 to 20 percent less than U.S. workers. – In response to a recently published University of Maryland study,
eWEEK interviewed Norman Matloff of the University of California,
Davis, to get his perspective on the findings. The Maryland findings
claim H-1B visa holders typically earn more in wages in
the U.S. when you control for education…

Interactive H-1B Site Educates on Visa Compliance

May 20th, 2010 | No Comments

A new U.S. Department of Labor Website supplies information on the laws and regulations relevant to H-1B visa holders and H-1B visa-holding companies. While much of the material has been available for several years, the information should now be more accessible. – The U.S. Department of Labor has launched a Website that
seeks to educate companies about the laws, regulations and policies that apply
to H-1B visa holders. The Elaws H-1B Advisor was designed to help
employees and employers understand their rights and responsibilities under
numerous federal e…

H-1B, L-1 Visa Program Overhaul Proposed by Democratic Lawmakers

May 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

A proposal by three U.S. senators would stiffen many of the regulations surrounding H-1B and L-1 visas, including an increase in U.S. worker displacement protection and restricting the number of H-1B and L-1 employees that certain U.S. companies could hire. While many companies in Silicon Valley have lobbied Congress to raise the cap on H-1B visa holders, many lawmakers have pushed back, arguing that the system is rifled with fraud issues. In 2008, a USCIS report found the H-1B program had a more than 20 percent violation rate.
– A new proposal by U.S.
Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J.,
would see a stiffening of the regulations surrounding H-1B and L-1 visas,
including restricting the number of H-1B and L-1 employees that U.S. companies
of a certain size could hire. While the pla…

H-1B Visas Less Than 0.1 Percent of U.S. Workforce: Report

April 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Is there an actual technology skill shortage in the United States, or do companies simply want less expensive H-1B visa workers to complement their largely American-based workforce? A nonprofit immigration advocacy group looks at some of the numbers and attempts to demystify the issues, as it pushes for more visas and green cards. Opponents say if there were a real technology shortage, wages for technology would be rising. They are not.
– How many H-1B visa holders are in the U.S.
workforce? In fiscal year 2009, 0.06 percent of the national labor force was
made up of H-1B visa holders, according to analysis of U.S.
immigration data by the nonprofit public policy group the National Foundation
for American Policy (NFAP). In that sa…

Tech Worker Shortage, H-1B System Challenged

January 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment

An ALF-CIO report pokes holes in U.S. guest worker programs and sheds light on the core issue of wage reduction for technical professionals in the United States and expanded entry of guest workers into newer fields such as health care and education. The report touches on the oft-cited abuse and mistreatment of guest workers from foreign countries, as well as closely examining near-stagnant wages for U.S. workers and H-1B visa holders.
– Based on the research of the National Research
Council, the Government Accountability Office, the Department of Education, the
Computing Research Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the National
Academy of Engineering, the RAND Corporation and a host of other university research
sourc…

Grassley Seeks H-1B Job Assurances

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

With the federal government set to begin its new fiscal year Oct. 1, Sen. Chuck Grassley wants the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to require that new H-1B visa applicants actually have a job waiting for them in the U.S.
– Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services Sept. 29 to hold employers accountable by requesting evidence from
petitioners that H-1B visa holders actually have a job waiting for them in the United
States. Grassley’s comments came after
several small Iowa com…

H-1B Visa Companies Getting Unannounced Visits by Feds

August 17th, 2009 | No Comments

If your company is using H-1B visa workers, you may get a surprise from the government. Piece of advice for your manager: It’s voluntary, but the surprise could intimidate.
– In an attempt to help root out fraud and other criminal activity, the
U.S. Citizenship amp; Immigration Services agency is making surprise
visits to companies with H-1B visa holders on the books.

After
reports came out that there has been evidence shown of fraudulent use
of temporary workers…