------------------------------------------ -- EZ A SZÁM CSAK TEXT FORMÁBAN LÉTEZIK -- ------------------------------------------ Date: Sun Oct 20 03:48:40 EDT 1991 Subject: *** TIPP *** #472 Tartalomjegyzek: ---------------- Felado : jt@cs Temakor: auto biztositas ( 22 sor ) Felado : jt@cs Temakor: new immigration act ( 74 sor ) Felado : jt@cs Temakor: new immigration act =2. resz= ( 97 sor ) =============================================== Felado : jt@cs Temakor: auto biztositas ( 22 sor ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A kovetkezo a soc. culture. magyar-ban jelent meg a FOREIGN STUDENT'S NEWSLETTER Amherst/Boston,Mass Thursday, Oct.17 1991 reszekent. CAR INSURANCE TIPS Everyone knows that insurance companies are a pain. But they are also useful. If the base insurance is required and you don't want to pay it you can register a car in a state where it's not obligatory (e.g. RI, NH). As a student you can use your car in, say, Boston, but the mailing address should be in that 'cheap' state (you need to have a friend there). But it is better to have insurance anyways. Every town has different number of points: there are 'cheap' towns and 'expensive' towns for keeping your car. In Massachusetts the difference can amount to 200$ per year or more. Insurance agent should tell you the details if you ask. Also: you can own the car but someone with good driving record can be the primary user (yourself being occasional user), but in reality you will be the only one to drive it. You can save couple of hundreds this way. Another thing that counts is your driving experience (other countries included, no need to show any documents).If you have driven for more than 3 yrs you save again (more than 6 yrs is another bracket, but it can vary with insurance companies. That's what we know from practice. Please share with everybody your experiences in this field. =============================================== Felado : jt@cs Temakor: new immigration act ( 74 sor ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Szinten a fenti newsletterbol. Udv., Jeno (Torocsik -- jt@princeton.edu) Source: Lourdes Lee Valeriano and Joann S. Lublin Wall Street Journal, Friday, Sept 27, 1991 New immigration law took effect on Oct. 1. and brought significant changes. The contribution of immigrants to economy has been given pririty to family reunification In particular, the law will enable U.S. companies to benefit from talent from other nations, mostly by tripling to about 140,000 the Immigrant visas for managers, professionals and others with skills which are sought in this country. The new policies, however, are not known in detail yet: "Truly, we are dealing with hearsay right now," says John Caswell, manager for Bell Labs' Employment and University Relations Department. "It makes our job difficult. Were acting to get people through the process by Oct. 1 because we don't know what's on the other side." Tighter restrictions were imposed on temporary work visa - now called H-1 and to be renamed H-1B under the new law. The new law complicates the process, so that what took eight weeks under the old law could now take much longer. It also puts an annual cap of 65,000 on professional visas where none had existed. "This is where employers are paying the price" for benefits from other parts of the law, says Warren Leiden, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington. The new process may cause problems, particularly for those companies that must hire foreigners for the skills they seek. And it's causing apprehension among foreign students in U.S. universities, who fear that the added red tape will deter companies from hiring them after graduation. Thus, companies and universities have been stuffing the pipeline with applications for the old H-1 visas to avoid the bureaucratic tangle that may begin next week. "We've done 10 this week," says Nancy Dunn, also of Bell Labs. "Normally, we do two or three in a month." One problem with the new law is a requirement that companies give the Labor Department documentation pledging that they will pay the foreign hire the "prevailing wage". But employers complain that it may be difficult or Impossible to determine the prevailing wage for some jobs. The wage documentation irks employers for another reason, says Steve Yale-Loehr, co-editor of Washington.based immigration newsletter Interpreter Releases. "The real problem is that unions can look at these documents and challenge them." He adds that successful challenges could result in companies being "fined or forced to pay back wages or prohibited from hiring other (foreign) workers for at least a year." Also causing a chorus of complaints, both here and abroad, are separate provisions on temporary work visas for entertainers, other artists and athletes. For example, members of a performing group will have to have been together for at least a year to qualify for visas. So a rock band, symphony orchestra or ballet troupe with a new member would just have to do without that performer in order to tour the U.S. Even harder hit are models; under the I old law they qualified for H-1 visas, but they've have been left out of the new temporary visa categories, stirring an outcry in the fashion Industry. "Excluding models would be disastrous for this Industry," I leading to a loss of business to fashion centers overseas, says Frances Rothchild, executive vice president of Wilhelmina Models Inc., New York. In response to pressure for solutions to such problems, Congress yesterday passed a measure that would delay for six months the implementation of the temporary-visa provisions for performers and for people of "extraordinary ability," categories that apply In part to artists, entertainers and athletes. The American Immigration Lawyers Association seeks a similar delay for the H-1B visa provision. Despite the problems, the new law should bring considerable benefits to U.S. companies eager to transfer existing foreign staffers here on visas and enlarge their cadres of global managers. "It's just going to be easier from now on" for U.S. companies to bring foreign executives to the U.S., says Daryl Buffenstein, a partner and immigration specialist with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, an Atlanta law firm. Concurs economist Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank: "The globalization of the economy has just begun. The demand for this type of (foreign-transfer) visa will just explode in the next 20 years." -- folyt. kov -- =============================================== Felado : jt@cs Temakor: new immigration act =2. resz= ( 97 sor ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Apparently, many major corporations intend to expand their ranks of Imported managerial talent. Fourteen of 35 Fortune 100 companies surveyed last spring by New York-based Organization Resources CounselorsInc. said their so-called reverse expatriates grew in number between 1985 and 1990. And 22 of the concerns plan to move more such executives to the U.S. during the next five years; only II of `the firms predicted that their domestic workforce will grow. Immigration attorneys expect that the new law will help transferring executives in several ways. For example: -Managers from overseas affiliates assigned to the U.S. for stints lasting between one and five years no longer will have to meet an outdated and rigidly drawn definition of a manager. -Perhaps 50% more executives will be eligible for so-called green cards, or permanent-residency visas. They also should be able to get their cards in six months or less, compared with delays of 18 months or longer in the past. -Spouses of foreign managers will find it easier to gain permission to work in the U.S. "Particularly as we go global, It [the new law] will be a big help" by reducing delays and paperwork hassles, says Joseph Grecky, vice president, human resources, for Reader's Digest Association Inc. While the magazine publisher now has fewer than a dozen foreign executives assigned here, Mr. Grecky says: "I don't think there's any question" but that the number of transferees will Increase. "Most global companies will tell you the same thing." International Paper Co. soon will move its first European executive, a French senior controller, to the US as part of a drive to create a corps of senior International managers. "The lowering of hurdles to bring someone in here will encourage us to accelerate this inpatriation' process," says John V. Flynn, a staff vice president and human-resources director. Similarly, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., expects to take advantage of the new measure because "we will bring more of these [managerial] people over here," particularly ones with specialized marketing and manufacturing know-how, says Richard Ward, training and development manager for the semiconductor maker. About 20 of Intel's 1,500 managers currently are foreigners assigned to the U.S. Under the old rules, companies sometimes had to go to ridiculous lengths to relocate personnel. Toronto-based Confederation Life Insurance Co., for Instance, wanted to transfer one senior claims executive from Canada. His 83-year-old mother, already living in the U.S., had to become a U.S. citizen and sponsor her son so he could obtain a green card, recalls John Ector, personnel director of the Insurer's U.S. unit. Yet the executive was 47 years old and had grown children. "That was a striking example of the hoops you used to have to jump through," he adds. Visas for Work-Related Immigration ----------------------------------- Number of visias allowed per year for different employment categories Pre-1990 Law ============ Immigrant visas: third preference (professionals with college degrees) 27,000 sixth preference (unskilled workers) 27,000 ______________________________________________ Total Annual Cap 54,000 Non-immigrant, or temporary visas: No caps on any category 1990 Act ======== Immigrant visas Priority workers (individuals with 'extraordinary ability' in the sciences arts, education, business or atletics, including managers transferred from overseas affiliates) 40,000 Advance degree holders or individuals with 'exceptional ability' 40,000 Skilled and unskilled workers (professionals with basic degrees and unskilled workers) 10,000 Investor immigrants (individuals investing in a new business in the US) 10,000 Special immigrants (catchall category for church workers, US government employees overseas and others) 10,000 ______________________________________________ Total Annual Cap 140,000 Non-immigrant, or temporary visas: No caps except for the following two categories: H-1B (Professionals, usually with bachelor's degrees) 65,000 P-1 and P-3 ('Internationally known' athletes and entertainers who are part of a group and 'culturally unique' artists and entertainers 25,000 =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= =* TIPP FORUM MAHAL HUNET hozzaszolasok bekuldese az XMAIL-re *=