The Biden administration still wants to tweak the H-1B program. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has a much-delayed proposal (now scheduled for May 2023) that could adjust the definition of the…
Although technology touches nearly every aspect of our day-to-day lives, it’s largely unregulated, and the big tech companies want to keep it that way. With Congress calling for more regulation and rules govern…
The COVID-19 pandemic and visa restrictions are having an impact on the number of H-1B workers currently in the United States, as well as the U.S. government’s H-1B lottery process. An analysis of U.S. Departme…
President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure spending bill into law on Nov. 15. The White House wants to use the legislation to invest vast amounts of money to build and repair roads, brid…
Within the hierarchy of any business organization, there are obvious and necessary levels of managers who have tremendous responsibilities for keeping various business units and teams chugging along on an every…
Spouses of H-1B and L-1 visa holders will be granted an automatic extension on their work authorizations. That’s the result of a new settlement for a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in September. Th…
The reconciliation bill moving through the U.S. House of Representatives, better known as the Build Back Better Act, contains a lot of proposals for a lot of programs. Buried in its lengthy page-count are a few…
Facebook has agreed to pay a $4.75 million fine in order to settle allegations of hiring discrimination against U.S. workers. As a part of that settlement, the social-networking giant will also change some of i…
During the Trump administration, many technology companies opted to shift operations to Canada. With the Biden administration now firmly in place (and supposedly changing the rules around the H-1B and other vis…
When it comes to the H-1B and the tech industry, much of the discussion tends to focus on how the largest and most-established tech companies use the visa. However, examining smaller companies’ relationship wit…
Every year, employers register with the federal government for hundreds of thousands of H-1Bs. However, the H-1B cap means only a relatively small percentage of companies will actually succeed in securing an H-…
How Ford’s Technical Specialists Manage a Globalized Workforce The automotive industry is in a state of rapid change. In addition to the expedient move to electrification, auto manufacturers around the world ar…