Feds Consider H-1B Changes After Uncovering Fraud

CWmike writes "A Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman said today that the agency is weighing a series of reforms to the H-1B application process, including the use of 'independent open-source data' to obtain information about visa seekers or the companies that file the petitions on their behalf. The move follows a report by the agency that found widespread problems and evidence of fraud in the nation's H-1B program, including forged documents, fake degrees and shell companies being used in H-1B applications. It also comes after the controversy caused by changes to the H-1B rules earlier this year."

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Re:There's a surprise

[mikael]

There's nothing wrong with somebody wanting an extra room or two to start a family, a home business or private study.

The fault is entirely with the expectation that house prices will continuously rise, or that they should be traded like company shares. Banks were more than willing to provide "jumbo loans" going above a quarter of a million units of currency in the belief that they would get a return on the investment (money deposited after the sale of the property). Any newspaper will have stories about how prices of desirable properties have risen (6K in the 1960's, 90K in the 1980's, 250K in the 2000's). After so many boom years, people came to expect this growth to be normal, and then found themselves in

Re:There's a surprise

[hedwards]

That's precisely the problem, the plans pushed by both McCain and Obama are going to make it a lot tougher for those of us that didn't over extend for a mortgage to buy a house later on. They're looking at ways of propping up the house prices and keeping people in their homes. The problem is that it just makes it more difficult for those that were following the rules and only buying what they could afford to buy later on. As well as allowing people who were dumb enough to buy into it to profit at everybody else's expense.

I think angryrenter.com was one of the places out there that's available to express outrage over it.

Peak efficiency can vary wildly

[kimvette]

FTCATBOTA (From The Comments At The Bottom Of The Article)

You WILL get better gas mileage at 60 mph (or even better, 55 mph) than at 95 mph. There isn't even an argument there.

It depends on the type of vehicle. My car gets 28-29mpg at 60mph, and peaks at almost 34mpg at 93mph. My truck (which is unfortunately my daily driver due to work requirements - can't haul much computer stuff in my car) on the other hand peaks at 17mpg at around 40mph. I get 16mpg combined in the truck, and 23mpg combined with a performance EPROM in the car, or 27mpg combined with the stock PROM (well, when I put it on the road - I didn't even register it this year). I wish I could tune the truck to do better but unfortunately it's an old beater with TBI, so short of having the whole intake and valvetrain swapped out and going with a carb (unfortunately not legal due to emission laws) there is not much I can do to improve the truck.