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Demand is down for H-1B Visas - Recession
Impacts Everyone |
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The economic recession and the
resulting widespread job cuts at IT
vendors were expected to reduce H-1B
demand this year. However,
immigration attorneys and supporters
of the visa program had predicted
that the available supply would
easily be exhausted again.
The CEO of Janco, Victor Janulaitis
predicted that the number of visa
requests will fall between 85,000 to
95,000 this year. He said," The
economy has impacted everyone and
there is a 'reluctance' by US
employers to hire non-US citizens
and face a possible public back
lash."
Demand for H-1B visas typically
fluctuates with the economy. The
initial number of H-1B applications
filed with the federal government
was down sharply from the number
filed a year ago. In 2008, in just
five days, the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS)
received 163,000 applications for
the 85,000 visas that were
available. The USCIS resorted to a
lottery to award the visas.
USCIS began accepting H-1B
applications for fiscal 2010, which
starts in October. However, nine
days into the filing period, only
about 62,000 visa petitions had been
submitted. The USCIS said 42,000 of
those applications were for one of
the 65,000 regular visas that can be
issued. Another 20,000 visas are set
aside for foreigners with advanced
degrees from U.S. universities; the
agency has received more than enough
applications for those visas but
said it is continuing to accept
additional petitions.
Moreover, that still may happen,
especially after college graduations
in May. Foreign students cannot
apply for H-1B visas until they
graduate - a restriction that shut
them out of the application process
in recent years. That prompted the
Bush administration last April to
extend the amount of time that some
foreigners can continue to work in
the U.S. on their student visas.
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Internal Staff Account for Over One Third of
All Data Losses |
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Over one-third of data loss incidents are caused by human error. A
human flipped the wrong switch, bumped into
or spilled something, tripped over a power
cord, dislodged or miss-routed an equipment
cable, touched a sensitive component while
carrying a static charge - or otherwise
misused the equipment. And that's just the
accidental incidents. What about intentional
misuse of equipment - and theft? Today's
high-dollar servers are so compact that they
could be removed from the building in a
briefcase. When you consider the magnitude
of the IT investment, and the value of the
data and applications that ride on it, you
can appreciate the critical importance of
protecting it from unauthorized access.
Diversified access-control policies and
procedures enable you to manage access at
the level of function and/or individual.
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