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UK to refund Chinese tourist visas
2014-09-12 19:27:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Chancellor George Osborne announces plans to refund the cost of up to 25,000 visas for Chinese tourists in an attempt to attract more visits to the UK.
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Oracle-based system for U.S. visas still glitchy after software update
2014-07-31 15:05:13| InfoWorld: Top News
There's no immediate end in sight to trouble that has hit the U.S. State Department's computer system for processing visa applications and caused problems for thousands of people worldwide. "We're still working on it," said State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, who declined to give an estimate for when it might return to full service.
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Offshore firms took 50 percent of H-1B visas in 2013
2014-04-01 15:50:51| InfoWorld: Top News
The U.S. today began accepting H-1B visa applications for the next fiscal year, with heavy demand expected. The visas will likely all be claimed by end of this week, and a major share of the H-1B visas will go to firms that use visa holders to displace U.S. workers. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data, provided to Computerworld, is very clear about who are the largest users of H-1B visas: Offshore outsourcing firms.
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Compete America says H-1B visas produce net IT job boost
2014-03-20 13:05:15| InfoWorld: Top News
The high-tech industry contends that Congress' failure to raise the cap on H-1B visas is costing the U.S. an opportunity to create a new job every 43 seconds. To make its point, Compete America, which represents many major high-tech firms on immigration issues, has built a calculator that ticks away jobs that it says are lost, or not created, because of visa restrictions.
VIDEO: Portugal's golden visas charm China
2014-03-19 02:06:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Anyone wanting to live in Portugal can obtain what is known as a "golden visa" by investing half a million Euros in the country.
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