The social networking site, which connects old friends and allows users to make new ones online, is being blamed for an increasing number of marital breakdowns. Divorce lawyers claim the explosion in the popularity of websites such as Facebook and Bebo is tempting people to cheat on their partners. Continue reading…

Prachee devadas found her moment of glory last week, when US President Barack Obama told the American public about the achievements of this Indian-American entrepreneur. Ms Devadas, an economic graduate from the University of Pune, had moved to the US in 1986 to take up a job. In 2003, however, she started her own firm, Synergy Enterprises—where she is president and CEO. In 2008, her company, a certified woman-owned company which provides IT and management consulting services, made it to the list of Washington Technology’s Top 25 small contractors. Today, it has 120 employees on its rolls. Continue reading…

What exactly can the collaboration bring to the USA? How can the USA or India profit from it?

Well, when you say “profitable,” if you’re talking about the economic side of things, I think it’s very profitable. I think that there are really tremendous opportunities now for the United States in India and, indeed, for India in the United States. And that’s why we’ve established a forum of our top CEOs, our top Chief Executive Officers on both sides to advise our two governments about how we can continue to make
progress to lower trade and investment barriers between our two countries and capitalize on these very, very important opportunities that exist now in our two countries. Continue reading…

The recent surge in interest in immigration to Quebec, with the launch of the new program called the “Quebec Experience Program” visa (QEP) or “Programme de l’expérience québécoise” (PEQ), promises to be faster and simpler for qualified applicants. The PEQ’s intent is to facilitate the transition from a Temporary Resident status to that of Permanent Resident for Foreign Students and Temporary Workers. Continue reading…

Canada’s large baby-boom population is starting to reach the age of retirement, this constitutes over a third of the Canadian workforce. They will be retiring over the next 20 years, what this means is that Canada will need to invest considerable efforts to keep offices, stores, companies and factories staffed with skilled and unskilled workers.
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The growth in Canada’s immigration needs is evident in the numbers. Canada took in more than 500,000 permanent and temporary residents in 2009, maintaining a historical high of immigration rate to support its economy, according to the preliminary data released by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) on Thursday. The data showed that Canada admitted 252,124 permanent residents in 2009, well within the government’s planned range of 240,000 to 265,000 new permanent residents for the year, and about 30,000 higher than the average annual intake in the 1990s. An additional 178,640 temporary foreign workers and 85,131 foreign students came to Canada in 2009. Continue reading…

Of late a few leading IT companies are coming under a cloud of uncertainty recently, with regards to their employees who are on L1 visa status and are exploring options for a change of status to H-1B visa. Continue reading…

DUBAI: India and the UAE have begun consultations to frame a new agreement on migration of workers that will ensure that the terms of contracts offered by the employers are not altered after their arrival.

The broad agreement was reached during the visit to the UAE of Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, who met UAE Labour Minister Saqr Gobash Saeed Gobash earlier this week.

Officials familiar with the process said the agreement is expected to be finalised in two months. “The bilateral discussion has started and the technical teams of both sides will meet in June-July before the ministry of overseas affairs presents the draft to the cabinet,” K Ellangovan, Counsellor (Community Affairs) at the Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi told PTI. Continue reading…

American lawmakers plan to make it less attractive for the country’s multinational giants IBM and GE to expand their workforce in cheaper locations such as India by taxing their income from international markets, and encourage job creation by renewing several expired tax breaks for local R&D.
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Canada will undertake a review of its immigration rules after a diplomatic row with India over denial of visas to people on grounds that their service in army, police and intelligence units made them complicit in human-rights violations. Continue reading…