Word: quota
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...young minds, eager to contribute to the U.S. economy by living and working high-skill jobs in the nation in which they were educated.Graduation dates at many colleges in the U.S. make attaining an H-1B especially difficult, because by the time students can provide proof of graduation, the quota is likely to be filled. This was the issue facing Harvard students last year, as the quota for H-1Bs was filled on May 26 (about two weeks before graduation), leaving many international Harvard students intending to work in the U.S. up the proverbial creek without a paddle.One glimmer...
...stalled on Capitol Hill, relief may be a long time coming.Some international students in the Class of 2006 were unable to apply for the H-1B visas required to seek employment in the United States because they did not receive the necessary proof of graduation until after the visa quota was filled.Previously, the annual quota had not filled up until long after Harvard’s June Commencement ceremonies—students in the class of 2005 faced a deadline of Aug. 10. But last year, U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), the federal agency that adjudicates visa petitions, announced...
...Matador) 3.5 of 5 Stars By ERIC L. FRITZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Don’t get me wrong; I like NPR. During long commutes, there would be moments when the hip-hop and pop stations would be in commercial and the rock station busy fulfilling its hourly quota of Nickelback. In these times, National Public Radio gave me the latest news about all sorts of important things, like endangered species and Iran. It kept me occupied and even, secretly, made me feel mature and wealthy. But as much as I care about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, it was never...
...speakers—Veronica Louis Renzi Tambura, Kamilia Ibrahim Kuku Kura, Buthiana Abbas Kambal Hassan, and Safaa Elagib Adam—came from different regions, including Darfur, Khartoum, and southern Sudan. Tambura, the first and most fluent of the speakers, spoke of how women obtained a 25-percent quota in Sudan’s government by “threatening to remove politicians from office” with the country’s “majority of women voters.” The other speakers shared their efforts in various regions of Sudan, particularly Khartoum, to provide education...
...European officials blame Asian shipping companies, which skirt quota rules by transferring tuna directly from industrial ranches in the Mediterranean to Japan-bound ships, without ever touching land and without reporting the size of their catch. "We cannot monitor it," says a European Commission official in Brussels. Tuna-ranching companies have become sensitive to environmental criticism. Spain's largest company, Ricardo Fuentes and Sons, declined to speak to Time, as did Azzopardi Fisheries in Malta, which controls some of the Mediterranean's richest breeding grounds. A.J.D. Tuna Limited, which Azzopardi owns with Japanese partners, says on its website that since...