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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…

Top 25 Companies with H-1B Visas in 2009

January 4th, 2010 | No Comments

A mix of U.S. and Asian-based technology, financial and consulting companies top the list of enterprises that have applied for and received approval for H-1B visas in 2009.

There are at least 200 companies that applied for H-1B visas in 2009. The major technology companies that did not rank in the Top 25, but did rank in the Top 50 include Yahoo, Amazon, Apple, Texas Instruments, Nvidia and IBM.

Some of the leading research universities in the United States also rank in the Top 50. Some of the top H-1B visa obtainers this year included University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, University of Pittsburgh, Columbia, and Baylor College of Medicine.

The following gallery is a countdown of the Top 25 companies from No. 25 to No. 1 and the specific number of H-1B visas these companies were granted by the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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H-1B Visa Quota Reached for 2009

December 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Overcoming an early slump in demand for H-1B visas, U.S. employers again hit the cap of 65,000 for the controversial visas that allow foreign workers in specialty fields such as computer science and programming to work in the United States for three to six years.
– Despite an early slump in U.S.
employer demand for H-1B visas, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
announced Dec. 22 it had reached the 65,000 cap for the controversial guest
worker visas favored by technology companies. H-1B visas allow companies to
hire foreign workers with special s…

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…