Biden nixes Trump immigrant visa ban as clock runs down on H-1B suspension
Keeping family members out of the country deemed harmful
27 Feb 2021
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Trump pushes anti-immigrant policy into Biden term with extended freeze on H-1B and other work visas
Applicants will need to hold off until March at the earliest
04 Jan 2021
US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs
Rule change to encourage American orgs to hire American workers over foreign talent
03 Nov 2020
Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first
Scheme to encourage hiring pricey brainiacs instead of cheap footsloggers
29 Oct 2020
Federal judge temporarily neutralizes President Trump's blockade against visas for foreign techies, other workers
Earlier ban on H-1B, H-2B, J and L passes ruled an overstep of presidential power, middle-finger to Congress
02 Oct 2020
With H-1B workers not exactly rushing to America this year, Uncle Sam plans to spend millions home-growing IT staff
Department of Labor puts $150m into computer, cyber-security training grants to plug visa hole
28 Sep 2020
US IT staffing biz accused of abusing student visa program now forced to stop advertising only to immigrants
DoJ unhappy with ASTA CRS but not as much as former employees
27 Jul 2020
US restricts visas for folks working at Huawei and other Chinese tech makers – seemingly over China's human-rights abuses
Staff face being turned away at the border for nation's treatment of Uyghurs
16 Jul 2020
Trump U-turns on foreign student crackdown: F-1, M-1 visa holders allowed to study online mid-pandemic in the US
Funnily enough, triggering a brain drain and denting the economy isn't such a great vote winner
14 Jul 2020
Big Tech backs colleges in war against Trump's ban on foreign students taking web-only classes mid-pandemic
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and pals weigh in on F-1, M-1 visa lawsuit
14 Jul 2020
Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications
Here's hoping the winner does a better job than Sopra Steria
01 Jun 2020
Tech CEO thrown in the clink for seven years for H-1B gang-master role: Crim farmed out foreign staff as cheap labor
Workers brought over from India were supposed to tackle specific projects – not fill a pool for short contracts
24 Sep 2019
Hope to keep your H-1B visa? Don't become a QA analyst. Uncle Sam's not buying it: Techie's new job role rejected
Software testing just ain't that special, sniff immigration bods
17 Jul 2019
Ignore the noise about a scary hidden backdoor in Intel processors: It's a fascinating debug port
VISA: It's everywhere (on the system bus) you want to be
29 Mar 2019
Two out of five Silicon Valley techies complain Trump's H-1B crackdown has hit 'em hard
End of fast processing upsets the Apple cart (and workers at other Silicon Valley giants)
10 Jan 2019
Visa fingers 'very rare' data centre switch glitch for payment meltdown
European boss says 10% of attempted transactions failed as a result of equipment fault
19 Jun 2018
Visa Europe fscks up Friday night with other GDPR: 'God Dammit, Payment Refused'
Updated 'Hardware failure' blamed for ruining revelries
01 Jun 2018
Coinbase, Worldpay, Visa play blame game after dosh vanishes from crypto-fans' pockets
Refunds for missing bank account cash trickle through
20 Feb 2018
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