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Dollar value going down can be good for us

Walmart says exchange rates hurt profits
This is what I was talking about in the previous post about Outsourcing. Dollar getting stronger can actually be bad for Walmart (and in turn, the US). In other words, as long as Walmart sold only to American customers, yes, it was a problem because every $ spent in Walmart [...]

And we have a blog that agrees with us

http://www.openmarket.org/2008/02/25/immigration-law-utterly-dysfunctional/
Thanks for the logical thinking Hans. We agree with your views on Illegal Immigration and how that’s making life hard for legal immigrants.

Interesting blog that seems to differ from us on almost all issues

http://blog.noslaves.com/ - They are against outsourcing, against H1-B visas, and from what it appears, generally against immigration altogether. I found it interesting that they have such an opinion and a significant number of people seem to agree. Healthy debate is always a good thing. We want the writers at this blog to visit us and [...]

Top 10 Issues Faced By Legal Immigrants in the United States

I’ve been trying to think of a list of the top 10 biggest issues that legal immigrants face today. There are hundreds of applications and each and every one of us has a different story. But many of us share the same kinds of worries at some point or the other. I am sure each [...]

GAO Releases Analysis of USCIS Fee Increases - and the news is not pretty

The GAO Analysis on USCIS fee increases part 1 and part 2. http://Immigration-law.com reported today:
This Government Accounting Office release relfects that about the USCIS was run on the fees collected from the customers in 2008. Do you remember the whoppy fee increase in August 2007, immediately following the FY [...]

Should US Workers get priority over H1-B workers during layoffs?

U.S. Senator Charles Grassley from Iowa seems to think so. Read this ComputerWorld report about Microsoft Layoffs. We think that’s ridiculous. Layoffs should be based on one and only one thing - justified business need. This is exactly the kind of protectionist laws that I was talking about in the earlier post about Outsourcing. So [...]

TSC NSC - Processing dates updated

NSC Processing dates - updated January 23, 2009
TSC Processing dates - updated January 23. 2009
I-140 dates have moved and this time, for a change, we do think that the dates reflect reality for the most part. But the discrepancy between TSC and NSC remains and the wait continues to be around 15 months - way [...]