Call to Action: Say No to the H-1B Fee Increase Amendment
Posted by admin on October 31, 2007 in General
The House and Senate appropriations committees are scheduled to meet this Thursday, November 1st to discuss the combination of the Defense, Military Construction-VA and the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bills into a ...
read moreThe Conference on Labor HHS is continuing. We suspect that the Conference will be finished this week, although no one knows for sure. The Committee is probably trying to structure ...
read moreWe crossed an enormous hurdle tonight when the Senate formally passed and added our bridge amendment to the Labor HHS appropriations bill! The amendment calls for 61,000 visas for Schedule ...
read moreTwo different versions of the Bridge amendment – either of which would eliminate retrogression for Schedule A workers – were offered in the Senate over the weekend. Both amendments could ...
read moreThe purpose of this Blog is to update readers about news and information as it pertains to the immigration of Healthcare workers into the US. But the news of the ...
read moreThe next few weeks are critical for the Bridge legislation. The conventional wisdom is that no immigration bills will be approved in 2008, which compounds the urgency. There are still ...
read moreHLG has just concluded its West Coast Symposium on International Recruitment of Healthcare Workers which was held in San Francisco. Speakers included Bruce Sarchet of Littler who spoke to the ...
read moreThe Coalition to Improve Healthcare Staffing’s website, www.ctihs.org, has added more state talking points. If you have any state data that we may use for future states, please post it ...
read moreThe always interesting and influential National Foundation for American Policy has released a new study, “Foreign-Educated Nurses: A Small But Important Part of the U.S. Health Workforce.” The study details ...
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