The Nation | 23 October 2018 A new multiyear study reveals that the United States’ so-called “guestworker” system has become a complex transnational web of fraud that looks legal on paper but turns out to be brutal in practice. The H2A and H2B labor-visa programs, which in theory at least offer a legal pathway to […]
India Today | 18 October 2018 The Trump administration in the United States is planning to “revise” the definition of employment and specialty occupations under the H-1B visas by January 2019. This is being considered as a move that stands to adversely impact Indian IT companies, and the small and medium-sized contractual firms mostly owned
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Albuquerque Journal | 15 October 2018 Albuquerque Public Schools (APS), like districts across the country, is facing a teacher shortage. Superintendent Raquel Reedy gave the Board of Education a report recently, saying there were 427 total vacancies including teachers at the time, 10 more open positions than last year, with fewer candidates wanting the jobs.
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South China Morning Post | 16 September 2018 Schools reliant on foreign teachers are now finding themselves warily eyeing the Trump administration’s tightening of immigration and visa policies, as executive orders and memos have urged stricter administrative control of both the H1B visa process, for skilled foreign workers, and J1s for visiting scholars. “It’s a
Economic Times India | 15 September 2018 Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has introduced a legislation in the House of Representatives which gives flexibility to H-1B workers to switch jobs and reduces the Green Card backlog by expanding education-based exemptions from per-country caps for H-1B holders. Rep. Krishnamoorthi joined Rep. Mike Coffman, original sponsor of the
Quartz India | 14 September 2018 People Tech Group, a technology staffing company in Redmond, Washington, has been accused of paying employees unfair wages. This comes just days after an Indian-origin CEO of two technology firms in the same state was taken into custody for forging documents to illegally bring foreign workers into the US.
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The Guardian | 5 September 2018 Some American public schools are turning to foreign teachers because Americans with college educations are increasingly uninterested in low-paid, demanding teaching jobs. Many teachers, struggling for a toehold in the shrinking middle class, have switched careers. And fewer college students are choosing to become teachers. The need for mathematics,
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Mercury News | 3 September 2018 An Indian citizen, CEO of two U.S. staffing firms, was arrested upon his return to the U.S. and charged with engineering what federal authorities are calling a “multi-year visa-fraud scheme” centered on the controversial H-1B visa. Pradyumna Kumar Samal, 49, had earlier this year “fled the United States” amid
H-1B ‘fraud’: Indian CEO in U.S. may have brought in nearly 200 foreign workers: feds Read More »
Finger Lakes Times : 28 August 2018 The au pair program is one of 14 programs managed by the U.S. Department of State under the J-1 visa program to promote cultural exchange. Au pairs are internationally recruited caregivers, mostly women, between the ages of 18 and 26. Only last year, Maryland greeted over 1,200 au
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By: Ellen Wulfhorst Reuters | August 2018 NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Young women recruited to the United States to care for children fall victim to wage theft, abuse and even human trafficking, according to a report published on Monday that called for legal changes to help protect au pairs. The report called for
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