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You will be given a California access number that will automatically call your overseas destination from the phone that you register. Our access number is a regular phone number in California. Long distance rates may apply to call it. Check with your phone provider if you are unsure of costs.

Your calling card will be good for 14 days or until all the minutes are used up. You must call from the phone number you entered into the form, and it will only call the destination number you entered.

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Reorient Immigrant Admissions Criteria

We must reorient the nation’s immigrant admissions criteria to better serve Americans and our economic goals. Family unification should remain a bedrock principle of U.S. immigration policy, but we believe that “family” must be narrowed to mean nuclear family members. We must also recognize that in today’s increasingly competitive and technology-intensive global economy, educated workers with the knowledge and skills to innovate are critical. Therefore, we recommend increasing skilled visas and replacing per-country limits on skilled visas with a single overall limit. At the same time, we recommend holding constant, at least for the present, the overall number of permanent legal residents admitted annually.

Closing the door to extended relatives and another 50,000 people admitted each year under a "diversity" lottery would make room to increase from 180,000 to 330,000 the number of skilled workers and their family members whom the U.S. could admit each year, the group said.

Labels: Immigration, India

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US - Direct TV & Dish Network

Canada - ATN

UK - Sky Sports and BBC – Highlights

India - Ten Sports

UAE, Dubai & Middle East - Ten Sports Arab Digital Distribution

Africa - Supersport2

New Zealand - Sky Sport3

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US - Direct TV & Dish Network

DIRECTV: CricketTicket via kwout

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Canada - ATN - Bell TV (Bell ExpressVu)

ATN will broadcast the 2009 games live on Pay Per View across Canada on Bell TV (Bell ExpressVu), on Rogers Cable in parts of Ontario, and on Shaw Cable in Western Canada.

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UK - Setanta Sports

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India - Sony's Set Max

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Australia - Network 10

UAE, Dubai & Middle East - ART Prime Sport

Arab Digital Distribution (ADD), the largest pay TV platform management company in the Middle East and North Africa, announced that it had won 10-year exclusive television coverage rights for the Middle East and North Africa for the cricketing world's most expensive and most talked about - the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition.

Live coverage for the same would be made available to audiences in UAE, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Libya via Pehla/ART Premium Sports packages.

Africa - Supersport2

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Why did EB3 become unavailable so early May Bulletin?

This is the earliest that the category has become unavailable in my 33 years of practicing immigration law

Labels: 2009, GreenCard, H1-B, Immigration, India

After first week of opening visa applications, USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) reports that it received only 42,000 H!-B visa applications from foreigners for high skill jobs in US. The total available visas are 65000. Last year the cap of 65K is reached within few days.For year 2008 USCIS received 163,000 H1-B applications.

The fall of economy and no signs of recovery may be the reasons for drop in demand for US work visas. The companies who took government bail out money  is restricted not to hire foreign workers in H1-B visas. This may be one of the causes that is effecting in the reduction of H1-B visa applicants.

But advanced degree quota of 20,000 visas are filled up fast. These work visas are for students who completed MS or other graduate degrees in US.

Source : Economic Times , PTINews

Labels: 2009, GreenCard, H1-B, Immigration, India

India’s general elections (Lok Sabha) 2009 is fast approaching and Google’s elections 2009 page has all consolidated info at one place. Google partnered with Hindustan Times this time to bring up to date info to everyone.

Besides all election news there is one catchy privacy concern voter rolls list available. For six cities – Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune cities one can search voter rolls info. The data includes addresses and husband information too.

The data is coming from Janaagraha. I searched on Sonia Gandhi and found the 10 Janpath address and Rajiv Gandhi name listed as Sonia husband.

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IPL (Indian Premier League) got moved to South Africa over security concerns as India is holding general elections in two weeks. SET Max is said to raise 400 crore from sponsors and ads. Worlds Sports Group will have all the international rights and SET Max together paid 911 crores for this mega event.

IPL's nine fixed sponsors include Coca-Cola, Hyundai, Airtel Digital TV, Havell’s and Vodafone.

It has to be seen if the event hosted out of India will have same viewership as it had last year. The fast sell of ads for 2009 shows the increasing popularity of this short version of the game. The franchisees too lost big amount of money last year except a handful like SRK's Calcutta team which made money selling franchise materials.

Source : SET Max sells 80% of IPL ads

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Two US senators - Richard Durbin (Democrat-Illinois) and Charles Grassley (Republican-Iowa) are asking 25 MNCs of how they have used H1-B visas. Their major concern is that H1-Bs are used to outsource American jobs. Replacement of American workers is unjustified and needs much bigger oversight. The H1-B quota increase is highly opposed as Unemployment rate hit the lowest since 1983.

Their letter of inquiry had been sent to the following 25 MNC companies—Infosys Technologies Ltd., Wipro Limited, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Cognizant Tech Solutions, Microsoft Corp., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Patni Computer Systems Inc., US Technology Resources Llc., I-Flex Solutions Inc., Intel Corp., Accenture Llp., Cisco Systems Inc., Ernst & Young Llp., Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd., Deloitte & Touche Llp., Google Inc., Mphasis Corp., University of Illinois at Chicago, American Unit Inc., Jsmn International Inc., Objectwin Technology Inc., Deloitte Consulting, Prince Georges County Public Schools, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Motorola Inc.

Source : High US Jobless rate prompts Visa review

Labels: Immigration, India

When asked what one location they might consider for outsourcing in the future, the CFOs most frequently cite the US (22%), followed by China (16%), India (13%), Southeast Asia including the Philippines (7%), Latin America (7%), Western Europe (6%), Canada (5%), and Eastern Europe (3%).

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Merrill Lynch estimates that in 2007 there were 10.1 million individuals in the world, 7.1 million outside the U.S., with at least $1 million in financial assets that totaled $29 trillion. If new immigrants bought the 2.4 million excess houses at today's $184,000 median price with funds from abroad, they would bring untold billions. The immigrants would also buy consumer goods, pay taxes, and start many new businesses.

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Indian security forces surrounding the buildings were able to monitor the terrorists’ outgoing calls by intercepting their cellphone signals. But Indian police officials said those directing the attacks, who are believed to be from Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group based in Pakistan, were using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service, which has complicated efforts to determine their whereabouts and identities.

In Mumbai, authorities have declined to disclose the names of the VoIP companies whose services the Lashkar-e-Taiba handlers used, but reports in Indian news media have said the calls have been traced to companies in New Jersey and Austria. Yet investigators have said they are convinced that the handlers who directed the attacks were actually sitting somewhere in Pakistan during the calls.

One senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leader who American officials believe may have played a key role in planning the Mumbai attacks is Zarrar Shah. Mr. Shah, known to be a specialist in communications technology, may have been aware of the difficulties in tracing VoIP.

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