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Since 2000, most people that were approved to be H-1B visa holders were born in China or India, and were hired for technology positions and increasingly held advanced degrees, data on approved petitions showed.

Over the last decade, the top four countries of birth for approved H-1B visa holders were India, China, Canada and the Philippines. Across all 10 years, about 64 per cent of approved H-1B visa holders were born in these four countries, with the largest group from India.

"Between fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2009, the majority of approved H-1B visa holders were born in Asia," said the report titled ''H-1B Visa Programme: Reforms are needed to minimize the risks and costs of current programme''. Nearly half of H-1B visa holders in the US were from India, according to an official report.

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A new facility of premium processing for green card (permanent residency) for foreigners ready to invest in the US was announced this Thursday. But all investors will not get their green card process speeded up;
businessmen who invest heavily and create a number of jobs are eligible for the quick processing of their green card applications.
The premium green card service launched by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is a part of the Obama Administrations bid to improve legal immigration systems.

The new program is a logical extension of EB-5 program which was instituted in 1990 to attract investors and boost job creation in the US. The new law will allow entrepreneurs from foreign countries to get their green card applications processed within 15 for an additional fee.

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U.S president Obama gave a speech in El Paso, TX on May 10th where he spoke about American immigration policy. Obama's discussion about the changes to be made in American immigration system is an effort by the White House. He reported the progress of his administration to increase the number of Border Patrol agents to 20,000 (twice than the number in 2004). Apart from this, the reforms in American immigration include increasing the number of intelligence analysts to thrice the number and deploying unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol the skies between Texas and California.

Obama has planned the policy for American immigration and the statistics which will be crucial for the people. Obama will be spending 25% of the high-tech startups in the US to the immigrated individuals.