Silicon Valley: Internet search giant Google has urged the US government to raise the number of H-1B visas by highlighting the contributions of its co-founder Sergey Brin and the company's principal scientist Krishna Bharat, both foreign-origin workers.

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is set to deport 750 more Indians found overstaying in the kingdom on pilgrim visas even as the Indian consulate in Jeddah has set up a special cell to facilitate the repatriation of the illegal migrants.

NEW YORK: Indian American legal experts and immigrant rights activists across the board have strongly opposed and rejected the comprehensive Immigration Reform Act 2007.

SILICON VALLEY: The high-tech industry in the US has opposed the immigration bill being debated in the Senate, saying the measure as currently drafted would harm the American technology industry.

NEW DELHI: India has protested US senators writing directly to Indian companies and seeking H-1B visa details and said such missives from American law-makers would "vitiate the atmosphere" of WTO negotiations in services.

Your urgent action has never been needed more than now, when the debate and negotiations on comprehensive immigration reform legislation are nearing a "make or break" point.

NEW DELHI: A study that fuelled a debate in the US on the merits of H1-B visa has found that Indians working there temporarily get nearly 13,000 dollars a year less than their American counterparts.

WASHINGTON: Raising hopes for hi-tech Indian professionals seeking jobs in the US, the American Senate has agreed on the broad contours of a comprehensive immigration reform bill that seeks to increase the number of H1B visas by 50,000 annually.

LOS ANGELES: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Monday ``bad tactics'' led to a violent confrontation at an immigration rally last week, when police swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets into a crowd of demonstrators.

On May 4, 2007, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received enough H-1B petitions to fill the 20,000 cap for those who have earned master's degrees or higher from a US institution of higher education.