INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY

CHAT TRANSCRIPT: IMMIGRATION FOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS

• Problems and Solutions for Computer Professionals

The following articles, each one about IT workers and the immigration laws, appear in the online version of ComputerWorld and TechWeek magazines. We hope that by linking to these articles, foreign-born computer professionals and their employers will be able to increase their understanding of immigration laws and procedures, and learn more about the merits of pending legislation:

YEAR 2000 ARTICLES

• House, Senate Vote To Increase H-1B Cap (10-9-00)

• Congress Passes H-1B Bill (10-4-00)

• Senate Passes H-1B Bill (10-3-00)

• The Latino Workforce (9-25-00)

• Election Politics Stall H-1B Hike (9-11-00)

• Special Report: Government and IT - Foreign Affairs (9-11-00)

• Trade Group Urges More H-1B Visas (9-6-00)

• Congress Pressured To Raise H-1B Cap (9-4-00)

• Special Report: Government and IT - Foreign Affairs (9-1-00)

• Special Report: Should the H-1B Cap Be Raised? (9-1-00)

• Special Report: The Feds Role - Take Charge or Butt Out? (9-1-00)

• H-1B Fees Pay For Hi-Tech Training (8-28-00)

• Balanced H-1B Legislation -- by Rep. Lamar Smith (7-14-00)

• Commission Recommends Changes Aimed At Improving IT Skills (6-28-00)

• Helping H-1Bs Should Go Beyond Bits and Bytes (6-26-00)

• A Foreigner's Plea: "Make It Easier for Us to Work in the U.S." (6-19-00)

• Washington Roundup (6-19-00)

• Tech CEOs May Be Forced Home (6-19-00)

• Labor Shortage Key Issue For World IT Congress (6-12-00)

• Backlog Keeps Visas On Shelf (6-5-00)

• Visa Bill A Relief For IT Managers (5-22-00)

• H-1B Visas Gone; Few Options Left (5-15-00)

• Clinton Proposes H-1B Visa Increase (5-12-00)

• Lawmakers Forecast Outlook For IT Bills (5-03-00)

• More Firms Seek Overseas Labor (4-24-00)

• Got Programmers? (4-17-00)

• Briefs: Hi-Techs vs. Visa Bill (4-17-00)

• Half Of IT Job Openings Will Go Unfilled This Year(4-11-00)

• Audit Reveals INS Issued 22,000 Too Many H-1B Visas in 1999 (4-07-00)

• Indian Entrepreneurs Take Charge (4-03-00)

• Indian Entrepreneurs Crowd World of IT Start-Ups (3-31-00)

• Fraternities of Foreign Nationals (3-20-00)

• Committee Passes H-1B Visa Hike (3-10-00)

• Briefs: H-1B Visas Going Fast (3-6-00)

• Immigration Service Nears H-1B Visa Cap (3-2-00)

• Senators Seek Visa Hike (2-11-00)

• Green Card Blues (1-10-00)

• Foreign Workers Claim Mistreatment by INS and Silicon Valley Employers

• Audit of H-1B Miscount Due This Month (1-03-00)

  YEAR 1999 ARTICLES

• Fix What's Broken in the H-1B System (11-29-99)

• Congress Offers No Worker Relief (10-25-99)

• Feds Backpedal on H-1B Miscount (10-18-99)

• Political Arithmetic (10-18-99)

• H-1B Miscount May Alter 2000 Quota (10-11-99)

• H-1B Counting Snafu May Slash 2000 Quota (10-8-99)

• McCain Plans Bill to Hike Visa Limit (8-20-99)

• GOP Eyes Boost in Foreign Workers (8-9-99)

• House Debates H-1B Visa Cap (8-5-99)

• Visa Cap Reached (6-17-99)

• Gramm to File Bill Hiking Visa Limits(6-2-99)

• H-1B Visa Abuse on the Rise, House Told (5-10-99)

• ABC's and H-1B's: Living with the New H-1B Regulations (3-8-99)

• How the New H-1B Regulations are Affecting Employees (3-8-99)

• H-1B Shortfall Predicted For Summer (2-24-99)

• Think High-Tech Won the Visa War? Not by a Long Shot (2-1-99)