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• Immigration bill could hike IT hiring, or send more IT jobs offshore, says Gartner

  The Senate immigration bill's impact on offshore outsourcing will be disruptive to outsourcers, their customers and potentially to the U.S. IT labor market, according to Gartner.

• Tech may sink immigration bill if unhappy, Sen. Hatch warns

  The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began debate on more than 300 amendments to the comprehensive immigration bill, including a number of changes to sections on H-1B visas.

• U.S. IT services providers heartened by Senate immigration bill

  Domestic IT services providers say the U.S. Senate's immigration bill could benefit them by raising the costs of their competitors that are based overseas.

• U.S. firms say H-1B restrictions may help them

  IT support services firm Caleris has this message on its homepage, "Outsource to Iowa. Not India," against a picture of a corn field and farm houses.

• Senate's big immigration bill seeks to crackdown on offshore outsourcing

  The U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill would make major changes to the H-1B visa that are certain to upset some and possibly please others.

• Senate immigration bill may push back on globalization

  The long-awaited U.S. Senate comprehensive immigration bill, which could arrive in Congress on Tuesday, will likely contain provisions onerous to offshore outsourcing firms that are dependent on H-1B visas.

• U.S. gets 124,000 H-1B petitions, 45% above cap

  The U.S. received 124,000 H-1B visa petitions, 39,000 more than it can fulfill under two hiring caps, the government said Monday.

• With H-1B cap exceeded, visa lottery will be needed

  The government's H-1B visa caps have already been reached, meaning a lottery will be needed to distribute visas, federal officials said late today.

• U.S. gets flood of H-1B petitions on first day

  The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received roughly 50,000 'packages' with H-1B petitions on Monday, the first day of filing for the next fiscal year.

• Plan to hike H-1B cap to 300,000 seen dead; 130,000 cap still possible

  The U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is expected to include an H-1B cap hike and higher fees aimed at offshore outsourcers.

• H-1B reform bill bolstered by testimony of mostly male visas

  U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley has re-introduced an H-1B reform bill that once again takes aim at offshore outsourcers, and on Monday he got more ammunition for that battle.

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  H-1B visas used by firm to create low-cost workforce, U.S. alleges

  A Texas IT services firm has been indicted by federal authorities for using H-1B visa workers to create an inexpensive 'as needed' labor force.

• What will an H-1B cap hike bring to U.S.?

  Ten U.S. senators this week agreed to sponsor a bill that would allow the annual H-1B visa cap to rise to as high as 300,000, leaving opponents and some researchers concerned.

• Senate immigration 'framework' calls for STEM green cards

  The group of U.S. Senators who are leading an effort to develop a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill want it to include a so-called STEM visa.

• Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises

  A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that not only hikes the H-1B cap, but allows it to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of 300,000 visas annually.