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Start a business while waiting for your green card

There are plenty of us that got into the green card waiting line in 2007 or earlier. To me, it feels like it just happened, but it’s almost 3 years!! And we’re still in line, which hasn’t moved an inch. Many of us have an EAD (employment authorization document) as a result of being in [...]

MurthyDotCom : NewsFlash Note to H1Bs Traveling to U.S., Working for Consulting Companies

Note to H1Bs Traveling to U.S. and Working for Consulting Companies Posted 14.Jan.2010; updated 22.Jan.2010
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[We also recommend that those interested in this article, read our January 22, 2010 article, H1B Memo on Employer-Employee Relationships and 3rd-Party Placements.]
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The Murthy Law Firm has received several reports and learned of instances in which H1B employees were sent [...]

H1B Cap moves backwards!

The H1B cap moved back from 45,800 ton May 29, 2009 o 44,400 as of June 5, 2009. Huh?
Does that mean some people that filed their applications withdrew them? Is that even possible?
Does that mean USCIS rejected some applications as problem filings? But even if they did that, do those not count towards the cap?
Or [...]

CNBC airs debate - lay off H1Bs first?

This is turning out to be more and more of a heated debate. I am hearing about this from friends and co-workers and of course, being an immigrant, only my closest friends actually reveal their real opinions to me. One of my co-worker friends, an American, thinks it’s a no-brainer that H1Bs should be laid [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Offshore Outsourcing - Good or Bad?

Most immigrants that I know that came to the country on H1B’s or other visas are on tech jobs. These are
usually jobs related to the IT in industries such as Software development, Manufacturing, Health Care, Etc. Some of them were originally working for (or still work for) companies such as Infosys or TCS in India [...]