The Latest Media Coverage

U.S. Firms Need All the Technical Talent They Can Get
The Washington Examiner - 08/20/08
Companies nationwide are laboring to fill information technology jobs, the result of a shortage of computer workers that is particularly acute in Michigan.

State Short of Tech Workers
The Detroit News - 08/18/08
Companies nationwide are laboring to fill information technology jobs, the result of a shortage of computer workers that is particularly acute in Michigan.

Ottowa to Ease Immigration Rules for Workers, Students
The Globe and Mail - 08/12/08
The Harper government is creating a new fast-track immigration route for skilled foreign workers and students who've already proved employable in Canada: an effort to prevent an erosion of talent as global competition heats up for higher-value labour.

H-1B Education
The American Spectator - 08/12/08
You would expect high tech giants such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and the U.S. division of India's tech support powerhouse, Infosys, to be among the biggest users of H-1B skilled-labor visas. The same holds true for universities such as Johns Hopkins, the University of Michigan and Purdue -- the world's training ground for skilled workers and research-and-development.

Judge Rejects Student Visa Injunction Sought by H-1B Opponents
Computerworld - 08/07/08
A U.S. district court judge in New Jersey this week rejected an attempt by H-1B visa opponents to halt the Bush administration's extension of student visas from one year to 29 months -- a move it claimed would give students a better shot at getting an H-1B visa.

Lou Dobbs Might Have Been Frustrated
The Huffington Post - 08/05/08
Last week, in a room atop a tall Wall Street building overlooking the Statue of Liberty, leaders from various sides of the heated immigration debate came together to have a discussion that was unique in at least one way -- it was constructive.

Building a Wall Against Talent
The Washington Post - 06/26/08
Fifty years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took the electrical engineering knowledge he acquired as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois and as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin to Dallas, to Texas Instruments, where he helped invent the modern world as we routinely experience and manipulate it. Working with improvised equipment, he created the first electronic circuit in which all the components fit on a single piece of semiconductor material half the size of a paper clip.

Visas for Supermodels
Los Angeles Times - 06/25/08
Unable to muster the political will last year to pass comprehensive immigration reform and address the dearth of both unskilled and highly skilled labor that drags on our economy, Congress is now ready to act. Standing tall in the courage of their convictions, lawmakers are proposing to give supermodels their own category of work visa. This is especially bold because while easing the way for several hundred models to work during New York's Fashion Week, they must resolutely ignore the pleas of high-tech businesses seeking more visas for well-educated workers.

Lack of Immigration Policy Hurts Growers, Threatens Food Supply
The Patriot News - 06/22/08
Central Pennsylvanians need look no farther than Adams County for a prime example of why a comprehensive immigration policy is needed. And if the country doesn't soon get by the inaccurate sound-bite of "amnesty" to describe some sort of guest worker provision, midstaters will get an illustration even closer to home: their grocery bills.

America Cannot Afford to Drive Away Talent
Financial Times - 05/29/08
On April 1, the US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services began accepting applications for the coveted 65,000 H-1B visas that allow foreign students with a bachelor’s degree to work in the US, in their area of speciality, for up to six years.

U.S. Limits on Skilled Foreign-Born Workers is Frustrating
Houston Chronicle - 04/01/2008
Driven crazy by U.S. immigration policy, Microsoft Corp. executives decided to drive some of their employees north.

U.S. Tech Companies Roll the Dice for Worker Visas
Forbes - 04/01/2008
U.S. technology and other companies flooded the government Tuesday with an estimated 200,000 visa applications for highly skilled foreign workers in what has become an annual lottery for just 65,000 visas.

Raise the Cap on HB-1 Visas
Google Public Policy Blog - 04/01/2008
As we first told you last year, the Google public policy team is launching a new effort -- the Google Policy Fellowship -- to support students interested in potential careers in Internet law and technology, and the organizations working on these issues. Our first class of fellows will work for ten weeks this summer at public interest organizations involved in debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright reform, consumer privacy, open government, and more.

U.S. Losing Global Fight for Talent
The Toronto Star - 04/01/2008
Arpit Guglani was speaking from Singapore, but on the whole, he'd rather be in Seattle.

Foreign citizens face precarious prospects for the post-graduation job search
The Yale Herald - 03/28/2008
Applying for jobs is indisputably the most daunting task that any college senior faces. Students have to make time in their schedules for endless information sessions at UCS, interviews, job fairs, and the looming prospect of post-graduation unemployment and moving back home. The process is, however, much more harrowing for international students, whose visa restrictions mean that staying in the U.S. post-graduation is uncertain at best.

Businesses Say New York’s Clout is Emigrating, With Visa Policies to Blame
The New York Times - 03/24/2008
New York officials have long taken pride in the city’s status as a global gateway. But lately, senior executives of some of the country’s biggest corporations, like Alcoa, have been complaining that American immigration policies are thwarting New York’s ability to compete with other world capitals.

Immigrant-Worker Visas Could Double If New Bill Passes
The Orange County Register - 03/23/2008
When the Senate was grappling last spring with a sweeping fix to the nation's immigration system, Sen. Dianne Feinstein pleaded with her colleagues to find a compromise and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Immigrant-Worker Visas Could Double If New Bill Passes
The Arizona Republic - 03/19/2008
A bill introduced last week by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords would double the number of H-1B visas that allow immigrants to legally work in the United States.

New Laws Slow Flow of Professional Workers
The Oklahoman - 03/09/2008
As the national immigration debate wages on, many people fear increasingly restrictive policies will cripple U.S. companies and universities competing in the global marketplace, encouraging talent and capital to go abroad.

H-1B Program Is Broken, and It Needs Fixing
New Hampshire Business Review - 02/01/2008
What do Punxsu-tawney Phil and H-1B visas have in common? They both appear only one day each year.