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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced changes to the H1-B visa program for highly-skilled foreign workers, and outsourcing companies aren’t happy.

The change is expected to net up to 5,340 immigrants with a master’s degree or doctorate more than the way the program previously ran, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The H1-B modification is a result of Donald Trump’s “buy American and hire American” executive order. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he claimed there was “rampant, widespread H-1B abuse.”

The demand among employers for H1-B visas almost always exceeds availability. The system uses a pair of lotteries for the visas. In the past, a first drawing for 20,000 visas was open only to those with advanced degrees. The second lottery for the remaining 65,000 visas was then held for anyone who had at least a bachelor’s degree.

The new approach flips the order of the lotteries. That means a bigger pool of people with advanced degrees enters the general lottery and then those who don’t receive a visa go into the second drawing, given a statistical advantage to those with a master’s or higher.

Outsourcing companies, often based overseas, don’t like the change, according to the San Jose Mercury News. NASSCOM, an Indian organization representing IT consulting and outsourcing firms, said that the move would shut out a needed segment of tech workers.

But as the New York Times has reported in the past, foreign consulting firms have dominated the awarding of H1-B visa, flooding the system with applications. Because of minimum pay levels that were still below market rates, they were exempt from requirements to not displace U.S. workers. The result was pricing competitive advantage and fewer domestic jobs for citizens.

The result, according to critics like Norm Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, was wage suppression for both immigrants and Americans.

Source: http://fortune.com/2019/01/31/trump-h1-b-visa/

The US just charged Huawei with stealing trade secrets, money laundering, and fraud
The Chinese telecom giant faces yet another severe blow to its reputation with the barrage of indictments the US released today.

The news: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has brought criminal charges against Huawei in two different cases. The company and its CFO, Meng Wanzhou (the daughter of Huawei’s founder and president Ren Zhengfei), are accused of money laundering, bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy. Huawei is also accused of conspiring to obstruct justice.

Speaking at a press conference announcing the charges, Christopher Wray, the head of the FBI (pictured right, above), said the charges “lay bare Huawei’s alleged blatant disregard for the laws of our country and standard global business practices.”

The details: In the first case, the DOJ says Huawei, Meng, and a Hong Kong–based company called Skycom Technologies committed wire fraud and other offenses in contravening US trade sanctions against Iran. In the second case, Huawei is accused of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile USA. The charges relate to a civil lawsuit filed by T-Mobile in 2014, which alleged that Huawei had stolen information relating to a robot called Tappy that the US firm uses to test smartphones.

The DOJ also said it has filed paperwork for Meng’s extradition from Canada, where she was arrested in December and is now on bail. Huawei has denied any wrongdoing and has called for Meng’s release. Update: Huawei says it didn't commit "any of the asserted violations" leveled by the DOJ and that the allegations of stealing trade secrets were the subject of a settled civil lawsuit in which a jury had found "neither damages nor wilful and malicious conduct".

Dial H for Headaches: Huawei is under fire on other fronts, too. The company recently fired an employee in its Polish operation after he was accused of spying for China. And a growing number of countries, including Japan and Australia, have been urging local telecoms operators to shun Huawei’s 5G equipment because of fears that the Chinese government could use it for spying.

Things could get even worse. The White House is reportedly preparing an executive order that would bar US telecom firms from using equipment supplied by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm. Draft legislation has been floated in Congress that would make it illegal for US companies to sell chips and other components to either firm.

Charm offensive: Huawei insists fears about spying are unfounded, and the company’s products are still popular in many markets. The notoriously secretive company has even been on a PR push recently to convince potential customers—and foreign reporters—that it can be trusted, making its little-seen founder available for interviews and giving tours of its new campus in Dongguan. But this charm offensive looks likely to be overshadowed by the current legal one.

IMAGE CREDIT: AP


https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612839/the-us-just-charged-huawei-with-stealing-trade-secrets-money-laundering-and/

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Gratefulheart01:
The style is agbada but the material is called 'ofi'.

Ofi is a yoruba local agbada material weaved by women but it is no longer common nowadays that native materials are made with technology.

You are wrong, those materials are not ofi, they are called Etu, Sanya and Alaari. Ofi is quite different. Yoruba culture is very rich. I have 2 of those in my wardrobe, inherited it from my grandpa.

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glosplendid:
Happy new year nairalanders,,just recently graduated and looking for a job instead of staying home doing nothing,,,my location is Abuja,,please any decent job with a good pay is okay by me,,.course: political science and international relations .contact:glosplendid@gmail.com

Can you work as sales executive with decent salary? But you will have to come to Lagos for test and interview after which you would be placed on 3 weeks OJT (On the job training), then you'll be redeployed back to Abj.

Iamgrey5:
Gosh do I have spell it out for you!

@ emboldened shows how shallow you continue to be with your statements

You mentioned Teni because you don't think her songs are good enough i.e. It is not your taste of music.

Hence, went ahead to insult a whole tribe for having a different taste from yours, even without any substantial evidence that the tribesmen are the only ones in love with her music.

Still, you claimed to have a higher moral ground than the tribe you insulted because they have a different opinion. How liberal!


Hope you can now see the irony in your statement


FYI Mr, you don't need to tell me you have Dagreen or Pusuma songs on your playlist, your numerous attempt to sound like a "liberal" while insulting those who you think might have a different opinion from yours is enough to show who you truly are.

Exactly, the guy is not too smart. Just another empty dimwit.

CaptainGOOD:
Lol kid calling his elder brother kid.
It seems u lack understanding.
Olamides songs are rubbish with garbage lyrics.
If olamide wasn't a Yoruba nobody will know him. Y'all helped him with hype.
Phyno lyrics are very pure, connected and has meaning.
I don't expect u to agree but that's just the difficult truth

Man has 5 good albums, stop comparing the few messed up lyrics olamide dropped of recent to his past works. I think you need to do a research on his 5 albums. You lots would never stop been tribalistic and foolish. FYI, I love phyno alot, cool headed guy.

CaptainGOOD:
U are an idiot oldie is overhyped and not as good as phyno musically.
Heay have much fans then phyno but not definitely better than phyno

I know you are a kid, where were you when olamide was the rave of the moment. You still dey your hut in Aba. Olamide has had more hits than phyno, go figure!

Iamgrey5:
@ emboldened

Can you spot the contradiction and irony in your statement

You don't listen to a Yoruba artist because she sings in Yoruba(which isn't entirely true). Yet, you feel ibos are more liberal than Yorubas. So who is the tribal one.

Well, Yorubas love P square, Pathoranking amongst other well known ibo artist too.

or do you think only ibo fans made those artist.

Don't mind that idiot, I know he's still dey suck him mana breast. Empty head everywhere. Capital fool!

CaptainGOOD:
This shows u don't know phyno.
Iowa didn't not even band like fuwa_sewa.
I don't follow crowd sheepishly phyno is among the few musicians who sing meaningful that song that u can connect the lyrics and see the meaning unlike others who jump form one thing to another in there lyrics.

The only problem pushing phyno aside is tribalism.
Imagine olamide who sings and writes rubbish lyrics POVERTY DIE.
Nigerians are just stupid in everything they they lack the sense to think on their and make reasonable judgement they rather make it easier for themselves by following crowed
Same reason we have this current president

You be capital fool for mentioning olamide continuously in your post. Olamide is still be baba where phyno, phyno sef sabi this

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modath:
Na South East governors own wonder person pass for all the drama & brouhaha.... They have not hidden their total lack of interest in anything & EVERYTHING called Atifku & Obigot campaign.

They have also decided to unlook & leave their youths to be dancing surugede by densefs on social media..

Surugede and gelede

This guy nah pure scammer... they don burst his bubbles

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AryEmber:
I'm happy for her, the names of the baby will include from Opeyemi, Oriyemi, Modupe abbl.

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