Last week BusinessWeek reported a new push to get Congress to address the issue of visas for highly skilled workers. The initiative appears to be coming from a lobbying group called CompeteAmerica, a coalition of employers of H-1Bs and related service providers (e.g. American Immigration Lawyers Association). ... read more

Here's an interesting resource: a Department of Labor site that lets you see who is hiring H-1Bs and how much they are paying them. The UI is awful - looks like the DoL could use some better programmers - but if it hurts your eyes too much, you can download all the raw data and write your own. (In fact, I think th... read more

Reports of the demise of the immigration bill appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Science has a couple of interesting pieces on provisions affecting scientists that I missed in my earlier look at the bill , and they are big ones. From the first article: * Foreign students earning an S&E masters or PhD fr... read more