Indian applicants for some employment based green cards can take five years to a decade to be processed.
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Firms apply for more employment based green cards and temporary high skilled work visas when the economy is thriving.
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Reflecting their skill and education, 27 percent of Asian immigrants from major source countries get employment based green cards (for highly skilled immigrants) compared to just 8 percent of all other immigrants.
The index includes both tech industry employment data and occupation-based employment data.
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And it would more than double the number of permanent employment-based visas issued every year.
Among the charges: that it rejected referrals from employment agencies based on applicants' race, gender or national origin.
In 2009 the number of employment-based green cards and H-1B visas was the lowest in years (see chart).
Among the charges was that it rejected referrals from employment agencies based on applicants' race, gender or national origin.
The proposed immigrant entrepreneur visa is separate and fundamentally different from the current EB-5 (the fifth employment-based preference) immigrant investor visa.
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It would outlaw insurance or employment discrimination based on a person's genetics.
Overall, just 61 million workers participated in employment-based plans in 2009, down from 67.1 million in 2000 and the lowest number since 1997.
Without Congressional action, the current wait for an employment-based green card can be 5 to 20 years or more, depending on the country of origin.
Boosting employment-based green cards is a great reform but it is not going to eliminate the need for a workable H-1B temporary visa (and a higher annual quota).
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More than a fifth of economic output and a quarter of employment are based on exports, making it particularly vulnerable to a fall in global growth and trade.
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Overall, the trend was "within expectations" and these figures represented "just part of the recruitment picture - they don't include undergraduate numbers or those on employment-based routes", he said.
She said she would work to pass a federal law outlawing employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and propose another measure extending benefits to the partners of federal employees.
Moreover, reform is needed for green cards (permanent residence), since newly sponsored skilled foreign nationals, particularly from India and China, could wait years or decades for an employment-based green card.
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The conditional status would be removed and the green card awarded after two years if the individual satisfied the terms of the new EB-6 (employment-based 6th preference) visa by creating the required jobs.
If the economic problems of the middle class are employment-based, therefore, it is unlikely that the additional revenue generated by the tax rate increase will fix this problem, especially in the short term.
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And a significant fraction of the population does not have health insurance today, despite the large premium subsidies currently offered in the form of Medicare and Medicaid and tax breaks for employment-based health insurance.
"University courses, on average, receive the highest grades from Ofsted and recruit the best graduates, " but it was those on the employment-based training who were the most likely to remain in teaching, they said.
Marie came to the Hutchinson Center in 2002 as a medical fellow in 2002, worked on an H-1B visa, and was sponsored for her employment-based green card by the center, becoming a permanent resident in 2008.
To help patients, Congress should expand the number of employment-based green cards so the wait times for skilled immigrants, including nurses, physicians, and physical therapists, can be measured in weeks or months, rather than years or decades.
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There is an annual limit of 140, 000 green cards for employment-based immigrants, so the ceiling means that while immigrants from small countries like Belgium and Guinea have a good chance, the waiting list for citizens of populous countries like China and India can last for decades.
In addition, he urged lawmakers to raise the current cap on employment-based visas, or "green cards, " and he called on Congress to renew the now-expired research and development tax credit--something that business groups such as the National Association of Manufacturers and U.S. Chamber of Commerce have also pushed for.
Aside from their still modest out-of-pocket payments and contributions to employment-based insurance premiums, most employees seem sincerely to believe that the bulk of their family's health care is basically paid for by "the company, " which is why so few members of the middle class have ever been much interested in controlling health spending in this country.
Her work involved monitoring and analyzing the effectiveness of federal equal employment enforcement efforts, as well as the scope of gender- and race-based employment barriers.
In an interview with Stateline, a news service that looks at trends in state policy, a vice-president of Remy, Jay Pittas, argued that RTW legislation makes it easier to negotiate flexible work rules, and means that unions are more likely to agree to a merit-based system of employment rather than a one based on seniority.
Belfast-based employment agency Grafton Recruitment is the sole provider of temporary staff for the PSNI.
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