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| Useful articles on a variety of immigration topics. |
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| These businesses cannot survive without temporary labor |
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| The debate over increasing the number of workers that can be brought into U.S. through the H2B program is heating up. The demand for H2B workers has greatly outstripped the number of visas, currently 66,000, which Congress makes available each year. |
| Embark on a religious journey to U.S. through R1 visa; New rules seek to eliminate fraud and bring integrity back to religious workers. |
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| It may soon become harder to get an R visa as a religious worker. Over the past few years the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the US Consulates overseas, and the USCIS has determined that the R visa category is susceptible to fraud. The first report on the potential for fraud in the program was issued by the GAO in March 1999, over 8 years ago. USCIS, through the Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) Office, continued to review the program to look for weaknesses. In fact FDNS has found that as many as onethird of the cases filed under the R visa category are fraudulent. |
| Get Geared for the H1B Season |
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| We bring to you first hand insight into the “talk of the town”: H1B quota and all the preparation and paper work that the companies are getting ready with this year. |
| Raj becomes a successful consultant in the USA |
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| Raj is a database architect whose services are in great demand. Raj is currently employed by a small consulting firm in the United States where he works under a work visa on projects that client companies all over the US outsource to his employer. Raj's work is so well respected by the project managers at client companies that many of them specifically ask that the consulting firm assign Raj to work on their projects. |
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