In 2010 under the code name “Cyber Monday Crackdown”, The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have seized 82 websites domains that’s involved in online piracy and counterfeiting. In 2011 the domain seizure number has increased to 130 sites. The code name is “Operation In Our Sites”. The timing is significant [...]
Immigration Officials Seized 130 NFL, Jerseys Domain Names – Cyber Monday 2011 Crackdown
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Australia Student Visa Cancellations Effected 6500 Indian Students
In stepping up efforts, Australian government is tightening path of permanent residency to students who are out of visa status. The easy immigration path and becoming an Australian citizen is student visas path. There are total eight different student visas. Australia’s Department of Immigration has eight different kinds of student visas including vocational training, university, [...]
Greencard Per-Country Limits Bill Approved In House Judiciary Committee
The Bill dubbed “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act” targeting highly skilled immigrants was approved in House Judiciary Committee and headed to House Floor. This Bill is proposing to remove per-country limits on available visa numbers that are restricting from country applicants like India or China wait for long times close to 70 years to get [...]
Greencard For foreigners Buying US Homes Worth $500,000
New bill sponsored by Democrat Chuck Schumer (NY) and Republican Mike Lee (Utah) to increase housing demand. This is similar to job creation visa with $500K investment and 10 jobs. This bill if approved may become key to recovery of housing market of US. Key highlights of visa for buying $500K homes: – 3 years [...]
November 2011 Visa Bulletin Advanced By 3.5 Months India EB2, 7 Days EB3
Slow progress again for EB3 India category which advanced by just 7 days. This is unexpected slow movement as fiscal year just started and the dates have been same at snail’s pace.
70 Years Green Card Wait Time For Highly Skilled Indian EB3 Immigrants
National Foundation For American Policy Report The report by NFAP (National Foundation For American Policy) shows the struggles for family and employment based visa category backlogs which potentially can take up to 70 years for an Indian citizen to get Green card in US. NFAP – National Foundation for American Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan [...]
H1-B Salaries Cost To Employers And By US City Data
The rising unemployment rate worries some of how and where the foreigners are snatching Jobs from US economy. The compiled H1-B data available via flcdatacenter/H1B shows many details of what skill level and which company or the city is paying the top dollar for H1-Bs. Big Name Tech Companies Salaries By Job Title Keeping aside [...]
Immigrant Teachers In H1-B Visa Limbo
Teachers on H1-B visa program working for Maryland’s Prince George’s County Public School system are in limbo situation per the fines and penalties imposed by U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division. The school system violated wage requirements for H1-B visa programs and agreed to pay $4 million penalty. In addition to penalty [...]
Proposed IDEA Immigration Bill – Make Easy For Employers To Get Greencard For Potential Employees
With US economy in slump, the overhaul of federal immigration policy is near impossible. As the fact is that around 200 of fortune 500 companies are formed by immigrants or the heirs of immigrants in the past few decades. As a stop gap measure, IDEA – acronym for Immigration Driving Entrepreneurship in America bill is [...]
India Commerce Minister H1-B Rejection Rates Have Gone Up
At CEO forums which is good lobbying forum for immigrants, India’s commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma quoted saying H1-B rejection rates have gone up. “Uptake of H1B visas this year has been less than half of annual prescribed limit and the rejection rates have gone up.” Would there be any impact to H1-B rejections [...]
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