Sentences with phrase «immigration of foreign workers»

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In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

The Trump administration's rigid stance on immigration policy — in particular its tightening of restrictions around H - 1B visas for skilled foreign workers — has created a unique opportunity for countries to lure away top technology talent that would otherwise seek employment in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the U.S..

In a vote today, the U.S. Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill whose provisions include a visa for foreign - born startup founders and an increase in the number of visas available to highly skilled workers employed by technology companies.

Important changes to Canadian citizenship and immigration policy have broken into the headlines of late, from the introduction of the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act to serious abuses of the controversial temporary foreign worker program to refugee determination concerns.

Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).

The order weighs how to make the country's immigration program «more merit based,» calls for site visits at companies that employ foreign workers, and tasks the Department of Homeland Security with producing a report twice a year on the total number of foreign - born people — not just nonimmigrant visa holders — who are authorized to work in the United States.

CanExpress can refer you to a long - standing Canadian immigration law firm, who can assist with the necessary applications for eligible dependents of foreign workers.

But there is less dispute that future low - skill immigration reduces the wages of current low - skill foreign - born workers.

Other economists argue that future low - skill immigration primarily reduces the wages of current foreign - born workers.

We shouldn't be designing our immigration system to reduce the wages of either our native - born or our current foreign - born workers — much less both.

Businesses will no longer be able to use immigration to avoid hiring from our current (and substantially foreign - born) population of low - skill workers.

It could mean focusing on how reductions to future low - skill immigration also benefits our current population of foreign - born workers by restraining labor market competition in a sector of the economy where unemployment is high and wages have been stagnant.

While opposing an upfront amnesty, they should argue that a conditional amnesty could be part of a broader immigration agenda that favors the interests of current American workers — both the native and the foreign born.

Parts of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act, which come into force tomorrow (Friday February 29), will require small employers to understand and verify up to thirteen different forms of identification when employing foreign workers, including recognising the passports of 27 EU member states.

The first stage of the new points - based immigration came into force today, designed to ensure only foreign workers with the skills needed by the UK are allowed entry.

Because many foreign workers are employed on the backstretch, the cutbacks have caught the attention of the Saratoga Immigration Coalition.

The committee assembled a panel of expert witnesses — tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa of San Francisco, California; demographics researcher Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City; and Puneet Arora of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is vice-president of the nonprofit organization Immigration Voice — to discuss so - called high - skill immigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and techImmigration Voice — to discuss so - called high - skill immigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and techimmigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and technical work.

In a decision that could affect the immigration plan President Barack Obama announced on 20 November, a federal judge decided on 21 November that the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), an organization based in Bellevue, Washington, and affiliated with the national Communication Workers of America (CWA) union, can bring a lawsuit challenging the federal government's right to extend by executive action the authorization for foreign students to work in the United States under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.

As the nation debates immigration reform, companies and universities that employ foreign scientific and technical personnel are arguing that the answer is yes, and that Congress should significantly increase the number of H - 1B visas, which admit skilled workers to the United States for a limited number of years.

Since the median wage of the American worker is going down because of outsourcing, illegal immigration, export of factories, and foreign competition, consumers won't have the resources to bail out the US economy anymore, especially with the rising costs of energy, health, and education.

Others might be an immigration lawyer who helps employers with foreign - worker issues, whose relationship is with key HR VPs, or a small - business attorney who has productive referral relationships with a handful of CPAs.

Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).

In the article, Sofia, an immigration lawyer and partner of Fillmore Riley LLP, discusses some of the common pitfalls employers face when hiring foreign workers.

Sofia Mirza published the article, «The Ins and Outs of Hiring Foreign Workers in a New Era of Immigration Law and Policy» in Piling Canada Q2 2015.

For companies on growth paths regulatory change can have a serious impact says Reis Pagtakhan, a corporate immigration lawyer with Aikins Law in Winnipeg who has done a lot of work lately on changes to the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Secondly, the developed world economies, who were considered immigration market leaders by «ease of use» standards, have become protectionist and fearful of «foreign workers.»

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations impose large fines on employers who hire foreign workers without proper documentation — but Bill C - 31 is the first legislation that would (if it becomes law) authorize the Ministers of Employment and Social Development and for Multiculturalism to impose penalties for specific Program abuses.

The purpose of the relevant part of the federal Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is to protect immigrants and temporary foreign workers by regulating who can charge them fees for immigratioImmigration and Refugee Protection Act is to protect immigrants and temporary foreign workers by regulating who can charge them fees for immigrationimmigration services.

According to the Immigration law of Canada, permanent residents (i.e. a person who is not a Canadian citizen yet but has the legal right to live in Canada) and foreign nationals (i.e. those who do not have permanent legal status in Canada like visitor, foreign students, temporary workers) who have been convicted either in Canada or abroad of certain criminal offences may be denied admission to Canada or deported from Canada if they are criminally inadmissible.

«Mr. Trudeau has promised real change, and an immigration system that welcomes and values all of us and that means untied work permits and permanent immigration status upon landing,» adds Senthil Thevar, who was a Temporary Foreign Worker in Ontario.

On June 20, 2014, the Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, and Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced significant changes to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Our lawyers have special expertise in issues affecting temporary foreign workers, including the intersection of immigration and employment law.

The case is brought on behalf of any foreign workers who, on or after December 11, 2009 to the opt - out / opt - in date set by the Court, made payments to Overseas Immigration Services Inc., Overseas Career and Consulting Services Ltd., and / or Trident Immigration Services Ltd. and who were thereafter provided with employment contracts to work at Mac's Convenience Stores in British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan under Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker pforeign workers who, on or after December 11, 2009 to the opt - out / opt - in date set by the Court, made payments to Overseas Immigration Services Inc., Overseas Career and Consulting Services Ltd., and / or Trident Immigration Services Ltd. and who were thereafter provided with employment contracts to work at Mac's Convenience Stores in British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan under Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker pForeign Worker program.

We will outline the various steps that can be involved in bringing a temporary foreign worker into Canada, some of the main foreign worker programs available, and will address employer compliance with immigration laws and how to avoid the «blacklist».

These include migrants who immigrate or seek to continue to reside in Canada under the humanitarian stream (mainly refugee and humanitarian & compassionate (H&C) claimants); certain sponsored family members who immigrate to Canada under the family reunification stream of immigration; and certain migrants who enter Canada under the economic stream of migration, in particular, those who enter as temporary foreign workers (TFW).

In addition, there is a backlog of applications waiting to be processed: HC Temporary Foreign Workers Report, Chapter 4; CCFR Women's Day 2016; Citizenship and Immigration Canada http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/caregiver/index.asp.

On April 1, 2011, significant changes were made to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program pursuant to amendments to the Foreign Worker Regulations of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada).

This paper surveys recent changes in Canada's immigration policy: the expansion of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, the introduction of more rigid language requirements in the economic immigration stream, and changes made to our asylum system by Bill C - 31, Protecting Canada's Immigration immigration policy: the expansion of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, the introduction of more rigid language requirements in the economic immigration stream, and changes made to our asylum system by Bill C - 31, Protecting Canada's Immigration immigration stream, and changes made to our asylum system by Bill C - 31, Protecting Canada's Immigration Immigration System Act.

The firm's Head of Immigration Emma Brooksbank has reported a huge rise in calls from EU migrants hoping to secure permanent residence and a similar surge in enquiries from businesses employing foreign workers who face a significant new tariff as the UK exits the European Union.

On Dec. 1, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada will become the administrators of a new Administrative Monetary Penalty system meant to hold Canadian employers in check for compliance with Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Even before Canada's immigration laws became more complicated earlier this year thanks to a series of changes to the temporary foreign worker rules, Robert Piasentin was using specialized immigration law boutique firms to help the company he works for navigate the often perplexing world of immigration law.

The issue for the UK is how much FDI they are willing to accept because political and local content issues arise, such as housing prices and immigration issues involving the use of foreign workers.

The H - 1B program, created by the Immigration Act of 1990, was intended to allow American companies to hire foreign workers with specialized skills that firms could not find in the United States.