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A proposed H-1B visa fee increase threatens to kneecap Silicon Valley's ability to hire the foreign talent it needs to compete
Hiring skilled workers on H-1B visas is already hard enough for U.S. tech companies. A proposed fee…
Paayal Zaveri
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Experts call the DOJ's lawsuit against Facebook 'troubling' and 'unfair' because the company complied with federal guidelines for recruiting foreign workers
Experts say the lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against Americans is "disingenuous" …
Katie Canales
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A Texas farm owned by one of the US' biggest potato growers paid over $1.3 million in back wages to workers after denying them overtime pay
Larsen Farms didn't pay overtime premiums to almost 500 warehouse workers, and also didn't properly…
Grace Dean
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Portugal is shutting down its popular 'golden visa' program. Here are two ways you can still get a residence permit (for less money).
Portugal's D7 and digital nomad visas allow remote workers from non-EU countries to live and work i…
Hannah Towey
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Big Tech reshaped immigration policy to recruit global talent. The newest wave of layoffs have left those immigrant workers stranded.
Outdated immigration policy and tech company layoffs have led to many H-1B visa holders scrambling …
Isaiah Reynolds
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Skilled, foreign workers are giving up on their American dreams - and turning to Canada
"I really feel like immigrants who are in the same situation as me are really dealt a big injustice…
Michelle Mark
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France has granted citizenship to more than 12,000 COVID-19 frontline workers, including healthcare workers and security guards
France announced the expedited naturalization program in September 2020 to thank foreign frontline …
Vanessa Gu
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Tech's tidal wave of layoffs means lots of top workers have to leave the US. It could hurt Silicon Valley and undermine America's ability to compete.
If the US can't reform its immigration policies, tech workers forced to leave the country after get…
Paayal Zaveri
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Trump signed an executive order targeting skilled foreign workers - here's why the H-1B program is so controversial
"Right now, widespread abuse in our immigration system is allowing American workers of all backgrou…
Michelle Mark
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Tech firms sponsored 45,000 H-1B workers in the past 3 years, report says. Many are now laid-off and struggling to stay in the US.
At least 350 immigrants were affected by Meta and Twitter's most recent job cuts, Bloomberg reporte…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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10 Things in Politics: Gov't workers want to WFH forever
And the attorney general vows to protect Texans seeking abortions in the wake of the state's new re…
Brent D. Griffiths
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America is going to need to spend massive amounts of money to rebuild its tarnished global reputation
It's not going to be cheap to rebuild America's image after Donald Trump spent four years burning i…
Bob Bryan
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Amazon is hiring more foreign H-1B workers than Google and Facebook combined
For 15 years in a row, the number of applicants for H-1B work visas has far exceeded the program's …
Zoë Bernard
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Biden unveils immigration proposal that offers green cards and overtime pay to farm workers and a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers
President Joe Biden is offering permanent residency to agricultural workers, who could be on the fa…
Charles Davis
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Volunteer farmers in the UK are working overtime to save millions of tons of produce from going to waste
The government has set up campaigns to recruit unemployed and furloughed workers, and local are ste…
Yasmina Hatem,Lisa Desai,Kait…
Jeff Dunn
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You could move to Dubai and work there remotely for a year thanks to a new visa
Dubai announced a new "one-year virtual working programme" that it says will allow remote workers a…
Sophie-Claire Hoeller
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Highly-skilled foreign workers are still flowing into the US - and in some cities, they make more than $100,000
Since these figures are averages, it's safe to say that a number of highly skilled foreign workers …
Leanna Garfield
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An AI startup is selling tech to let call center agents change their accents. They say it's to protect workers from racism, but critics say it's a form of 'digital whitening.'
Tech company Sanas has been accused of racism for its 'accent translation' technology. But some cal…
Lindsay Dodgson,Yoonji Han
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Trump's executive order suspending entry of immigrants is 'drastic and damaging', says US immigration attorney
"Drastic" and "damaging" is how a top US immigration attorney is describing Donald Trump's latest e…