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Saturday March 10, 2007 Falgun 26, 2063 B.S. Year 2. No.10 US Under Secretary Fore Nepalese Doctor conferred Visits ‘Asian of the Year’ Award New Delhi March 5 (IANS): Sanduk Ruit, a Nepalese eye surgeon educated in India, was Monday conferred with the first Reader’s Digest Asian of the Year award. Ruit has conducted over 70,000 surgeries for cataract, considered to be the main reason of blindness in the subcontinent. ‘It is an apt award for a man of his stature. India and the Indian subcontinent need his Dr. Sanduk Ruit service,’ Indian Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said about Ruit has been working for the cause of eliminating Photo: Nepal News the 54-year-old surgeon at the Henrietta H. Fore, Under Secretary of State for Management meet- award ceremony here. ...Contd. on pg 4 ing with the Prime Minister Girija P Koirala at his residence in Baluwatar on Saturday March 10, 2007. During her stay she re- India Agrees to Inter-State viewed developments in Nepal and met Nepali politicians, officials, business executives, and women alumni of US exchange programs. Railway US Prepares for Possible New Delhi, March 9: India yes- der project. UNESCO in its 62nd terday agreed to expand inter-state inter-governmental meeting on 12 Flow of Caribean Immigrants railway services linking Asia with April had decided to launch this Europe. Miami, March 9: U.S. officials including personnel from 50 ambitious project. A press release issued by have wrapped up an exercise agencies including the Coast “This railway network the Union Communications Min- to prepare for the possible Guard, and local rescue and would be significant for promot- istry today stated that the cabinet mass flow of migrants police departments. ing trade and tourism in the re- meeting under the chairmanship arriving by boat from Cuba or Officials said the gion,” Indian Union Communica- of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan another Caribbean nation. exercise imagined the possible tions Minister Priyaranjandas Singh made the decision in this From Miami, VOA’s Brian collapse of the Communist Munsi said after the cabinet meet- regard. Wagner reports that the drill government in Cuba, but they ing. Earlier, the Nepal gov- was intended to test existing said a mass migration also Eighteen nations, includ- ernment had given its consent. 18 U.S. resources to combat could come from Haiti, ing Nepal, Russia, China, Iran, nations would join hands to build illegal migration, as well as Dominican Republic or Korea, Mongolia, Turkey, railway network in this intra-bor- drug and people smuggling. another Caribbean nation. The ...Contd. on pg 4 U.S. officials said the head of the operation, Coast scenario called for scores of Guard Rear Admiral David Tickets to Nepal, India boats from Cuba arriving on Kunkel said the goal of the & Worldwide the shores of Florida after the drill was to ensure security fall of the Communist regime forces are prepared for any in Havana. Actors playing the Low price tickets from all over the US & Canada to Nepal, India, Pakistan, event. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the rest of the world ! role of Cuban migrants “I can promise you, piloted vessels off the shore of the citizens of south Florida, Call for quotes & availability Miami as part of the two-day that I will devote every Austrian Air, Air India, Cathay Sabina Aryal Pacific, Korean Air, Thai Air, Travel Consultant exercise. In response, U.S. waking moment to preparing Gulf Airway, Airways, 703 636 5582 authorities deployed a dozen and ensuring we are doing PIA, Thai Airways and more... [email protected] helicopters and 20 boats, ...Contd. on pg 4 Indus Travel Inc., Washington DC Metro Area, Open 7 days / 9am-9pm ET Nepal Abroad Falgun 26, 2063 / March 10, 2007 Page 2

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March 17, 2007: The Newah Organization of America presents ‘NepalFest ‘07 Live in Concert in DC’ on Saturday Mar 17 at NVCC ERNST Community Cultural Center Theater, 8333 Little River Turnpike, Annadale VA 22003 from 7:30pm to 10:30pm. Visit Nepalhorizons.com for details. March 19, 2007: Nepalese food would be served on Monday Mar 19 as part of the 2007 International Dinner series at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) beginning 6pm CT. Kishor Regmi, Sanu Lama and Amit Tajhya would be preparing the food for the event. For details, contact the office of the International Programs at the UMC (umcrookston.edu). April 7, 2007: The Nepalese Students Association at St. Cloud State University MN are all set for this years Nepal Night 2007 with the theme ‘Adhyaya...A New Beginning’ scheduled for Saturday Apr 7 at Ball Room of SCSU. For

Photo: Nepal Abroad details contact members at nsastcloud.org - By Sabina Aryal April 14, 2007: Nepalese Society Texas has earmarked Father Bhawani Shankar Dahal School for the Blind in Saturday Apr 14 to celebrate Nepalese New Year 2064 and Mother Menuka Dahal were Philadelphia PA. Started in BS. Details to be updated at nepalesesociety.org or then very reluctant to make an 1985, this program provides contact Sushil Chettri at [email protected] uncomfortable decision to send training in the areas of access April 14, 2007: The Association of Nepalis in Minnesota their blind young daughter Buna technology, written and spoken (ANMN) has earmarked Saturday Apr 14 to celebrate Dahal to the US in September English, orientation and Nepali New Year 2064 BS. Also on that day, there would 1990 to participate in the mobility and leadership be an election for ANMN’s board members, and invites Overbrook International development to young blind all the members to participate. For more information visit program. The departing day, and low vision students anmn.org recollects Buna, saw their between 16 and 20 years of age April 14, 2007: Every body is invited to celebrate ‘New parents’ unabated flow of tears from around the world. Year 2064 BS’ at Club DC9 1940 9th Street NW followed by several sleepless She then moved to Washington DC on April 14 from 8pm to 4am. For details nights wandering about the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn visit nepalhorizons.com. condition of their blind daughter IL and later transferred to the April 21, 2007: Nepal Seattle Society has scheduled Saturday April 21 to celebrate Nepali New Year 2064 BS. in a foreign country. Columbia College in Chicago For more updates visit nepalseattle.org Buna Dahal was born as IL, and completed her a precious child of her parents April 21, 2007: RP Entertainment presents ‘Nepali New Bachelor’s degree in Journalism Year 2064 BS’ Celebration with variety of cultural in Biratnagar, Nepal. But the in June 1998. Here she worked programs and live concert on April 4 from 7pm to 1am. parents realized later when she as an assistant to the Director The venue is yet to be decided. was around 3-year-old that she of Career Planning and ‘Eklo Tara’: Nepalese Society Texas (NST) is publishing had Congenital Glaucoma, a Placement Office at the its bi-annual newsletter ‘Eklo Tara’ on the occasion of rare but potentially blinding eye Columbia College. Nepalese New Year 2064 BS. Therefore, it requests all disorders. Ever since, her life ‘During my initial those interested to send poems, articles, essays, stories has been a real struggle. years in the US, I remember and writings by March 15. NST also seeks advertisements She started her calling my parents in Biratnagar and commercials from businesses across the United States academic years from Janpath (Nepal) and they would hardly to cover the cost of the publication. For more details Madhyamik Vidhalaya in believe what I was doing here. please contact Bhim Karki at Biratnagar, Purwanchal Gyan This country has given me more [email protected] or 972-257-0119. Chakchu Vidhyalaya in Dharan opportunities – a chance to and Laboratory High School explore myself and to realize Kirtipur where she completed my talents’, says Buna Dahal. To subscribe Nepal Abroad please her 10th grade. When she was on For the last several her second year of college in years, she’s been living in Email us at [email protected] Padma Kanya Campus in Littleton CO in her own house. , she got a wonderful She works as an Employment or opportunity to participate in the Specialist at the Colorado call us at 703 636 5582 Overbrook International Center for the Blind. Program of the Overbrook ...Contd. on pg 5 Nepal Abroad Falgun 26, 2063 / March 10, 2007 Page 4

Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 Nepalese Doctor conferred... US Prepares for Possible... blindness for 20 years and has India Institute of Medical everything possible to protect officials were conducting the been active in the northeastern Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. our borders and our people, two-day exercise in the area. states of India and northern Bihar. Said Jim Plouffe, the whether from drug Rear Admiral Kunkel He has also been working in his Asia Editor of the 85-year-old smugglers, terrorists, or said officials were homeland Nepal, , China magazine Reader’s Digest: ‘Ruit illegal migration,” said investigating the case of the and many other countries of Asia. is such an amazing personality Admiral Kunkel. Cubans. And he said the The eye surgeon did about whom the whole Illegal migrations reported incident shows the his graduate studies at subcontinent can feel proud of.’ are not uncommon in south continued threat facing U.S. Lucknow’s King George Ruit was chosen for the Florida. During an economic borders. Medical College and Ramon Magsaysay Award for crisis in 1980, scores of “What we want to do postgraduate studies at the All International Understanding last year. Cubans fled the island by is investigate,” he said. “We Continued from page 2 boat after Cuban leader want to stop the smuggling, Fidel Castro said those who stop the landings, we want to Children In Armed ... wanted to leave were free to stop what is illegal, and keep the CRC clearly mandates that that it will do so. Across most do so. More than 100,000 people safe on the seas. That’s the state party take all appro- of the countries of the world, it Cubans made the 170- the message. Don’t take to the priate measures on social rein- is an established fact that insti- kilometer trip, prompting seas.” tegration of separated children tutional care should be only the Cuban officials to again Officials also have with self-respect and dignity, last resort for caring for chil- close the doors to emigrants. warned they may restrict the the government should have dren. So the efforts should be Over the years, thousands of activity of U.S. boats in the taken the lead and formulated concentrated on the social re- Haitians also have tried to event of a mass migration in appropriate policies in which integration of separated chil- make the trip to Florida to the Caribbean. Some Cuban- the combined effort of the state dren rather than institutional escape poverty or alleged Americans say they are and civil society organisations care in such a way that the ac- political persecution. prepared to pilot vessels could be integrated. But it has tivities could be performed And early Thursday, toward Cuba in search of not done so. in an effective and coordi- police said 40 Cubans family members or others in And with continued reportedly arrived on the the event of a mass exodus focus on establishing a new nated way, which is the shores of Miami Beach, even as from the island.[By Brian Wagner] constitution and government, need of the hour. as well as dealing with the on- (Ghimire is associated with the SA- Nepal’s Oscar phenomenon going conflict, it seems unlikely HARA Group) Continued from page 1 grappling with cancer India Agrees... For all your Kathmandu, March 9: While From tending yaks, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Transcription needs: Australian diva Kylie Minogue’s Thinley was catapulted into the Vietnam, Armenia, Cambodia, battle with cancer made the tinsel world, playing the lead in have given their consent for con- Legal, Medical & headlines, few know about the Valli’s ‘Caravan’. The film, that struction of the railway network. others fight against the dreaded disease resembles more a documentary End of 2008 is the deadline for being waged by Nepal’s Oscar than a feature, was an eight-day receiving the agreements on the nationaltechno.com phenomenon, a yak herder who wonder, shot with a cast who plan.[HNS] has provided the plot for the only were all first-time actors playing Nepali film to have been their own lives. NepalFest ‘07, Live in Concert nominated for an Academy Award. In 1999, ‘Caravan’ was NepalFest ‘07, Live in Concert All his life Thinley nominated in the best foreign in Metropolitan Washington Lundup Lama struggled in Dolpo film category, a feat that no Saturday March 17, 2007 district’s Saldang village in the Nepali film has been able to mountainous north to eke out a repeat since. precarious living trading salt The craggy, white- laden on yak back for corn and haired Thinley became a other crops. celebrity in Nepal almost A tiny break occurred in overnight. Recently, a the 1990s when French maverick music band sought photographer Eric Valli made a him out for their music video, film in Nepali, capturing the life ‘Sa Karnali’, where he briefly of the yak caravan traders pitted plays a trader once again in a Brought to you by NEWAH Organization of America against the harsh mountains, single song. For details, nepalhorizons.com nature and their culture. ...Contd. on pg 6 Nepal Abroad Falgun 26, 2063 / March 10, 2007 Page 5

Continued from page 3 Ms. Buna Dahal: A brief... Job Opportunities Today she’s the first Vice- Transition to Independence • Herman Conaway Scholarship, President of the National Career Fair, followed by her Columbia College 1997 Federation of the Blind (NFB) trip to similar conference in • Phi Theta Kappa of Denver Chapter. Founded in NY. While I’m writing this International Society member Realize your 1940, the NFB’s purpose is to brief introductory, I get a call 1994-present potential! • help blind people achieve self- from her saying that she’s 1995 Elected to Who’s Who Come join the IT confidence, self-respect, and attending ‘Business Leaders in the leadership program of self-determination, and today it and Superior Training’ (March the American Junior College world that pays you is the largest organization of the 7-10, 07) organized by the • Winner of the National great! blind in the world with more National Association of Blind Scholarship of the National than 50,000 members. Ms Merchants, a membership Federation of the Blind 1995 -Free Training Dahal is also the Chair-Person organization of blind persons • Interviewed by MSNBC as a of the NFB Employment employed in either self- young inspirational leader Committee. employment work or the 2000 -OPT/CPT Welcome She often moves across Randolph-Sheppard vending • 2004 Community Leader, the US giving presentation, program. National Library of the Month -H1B Sponsorship / attends seminars and Some of her to promote literacy Transfer conferences of regional and remarkable events / • Interviewed by NTV, KTV national levels. On February achievements are: and several other newspaper 22, 2007 she was in Baltimore • Transfer Student Scholarship and media in Nepal during her -Excellent Salary to participate in the NFB: Award, Columbia College 1996 trip to Nepal last year. For details, USCIS Announces Direct Filing Instruc- call 703 636 5582 tions for Forms I-129 and I-539 OR 703 255 5434-112 Under the Bi-Specialization Initiative Email your updated resume to Washington March 5: U.S. and completes the adjudication. USCIS released two [email protected] Citizenship and Immigration This is a streamlining of the Bi- separate filing charts for Form Services (USCIS) today Specialization process which I-129 and Form I-539 to assist announced new Direct Filing previously required that customers in determining the Put your instructions for a variety of applications and petitions be filed direct filing location for their immigration forms that were at one centralized location and petition or application. transitioned into the Bi- subsequently distributed to Employers requesting business Specialization initiative. another service center for Premium Processing Services This Update addresses issuance of a receipt notice and on Form I-129 must also file a advertisements Direct Filing instructions for final case processing. Request for Premium here, and Forms I-129 (Petition for Effective April 2, 2007, Processing Services (Form I- Nonimmigrant Worker) and I- all Forms I-129 and I-539 are to 907). Please visit the Premium 539 (Application to Change/ be filed directly with the Processing page on the USCIS get noticed Extend Nonimmigrant Status). California Service Center or the Web site to ensure that the across the Direct filing will be implemented Vermont Service Center, requested classification is incrementally for all remaining whichever is applicable. eligible. United States petition and application forms Customers are responsible for USCIS will accept filing the forms with the correct Forms I-129 and I-539 filed in transitioned into the Bi- [email protected] Specialization initiative. Service Center and should verify accordance with the old filing Under this new process, that they use the correct filing instructions during the first 15 USCIS is requiring that address by referring to the days of implementation of 703 636 5582 customers “Direct File” their instructions on the relevant form. Direct Filing (from April 2 – petitions and applications directly To reduce the burden on 16). However, if a Form I-129 with the service center that will customers that may have or I-539 is filed on or after April process the filings, based on the prepared their filings ahead of 17, 2007, and is not submitted Call Nepal place of temporary employment issuance of this Update, USCIS to the correct filing location, it Take $5 worth mins or place of residence. Customers clarifies that customers do not will be rejected and returned to FREE can expect that the center where need to change Service Center the petitioner/applicant with fee When Promotion Code they file will also be the center addresses on letterhead or and instructions for proper 972888 is used. that generates the receipt notice supporting documents. filing. [USCIS] Nepal Abroad Falgun 26, 2063 / March 10, 2007 Page 6

Continued from page 8... Continued from page 8... Women Trafficking: True Story... Microsoft's had to sell my body. (While she and the same restlessness to see pulls a small child walking beside was talking, crying and talking) me. At this moment, he is closer her and holds its friendly arm. Gates... "When I came to Kathmandu, I to me and I am crying to open Everybody has his own people are here in the United had a great imagination. I had up some thing of life to him with problem. Perhaps no person is free States, and that is why I believe fancied a separate sky. My life, some shyness. To be closer to from his or her problem. Oh! it is important to maximize that in fact, was quite terrible and each other is a pleasant moment. Should I have an ideal thought like number [of high-skilled foreign horrible as I had to live sur- “It’s definitely not easy to be this? I am startled in my walk and workers]," he added. rounded twenty four hours by alive. In fact, life is a difficult, unknowingly my steps turn toward Gates urged lawmakers agents and customers. At the dangerous and unpleasant jour- the residence of my friend again. to find ways to keep foreign gates of every building there ney”. The man without name is She was found all alone in her students in the United States, were agents busy haggling for trying to make me understand”, room. She shows her formality, saying if the country is going to our bodies as if we were beasts she said. “Come in Kamala”. invest in educating them, it kept for auction. And we waited I am outside of my I go close to her and sit should also benefit from that for the customers inside a very apartment. I am now looking at down. investment by encouraging them dark and foul smelling room. my diary. A Street! When you “I have arranged a job for to work here. Who was there to love refer to a street you have to as- you in an office. After all who do He urged the federal me in that world of money? Ev- sociate it with the crowds of you have as your own here in government to invest more erywhere there were alcoholic people. With the street comes the Kathmandu? You must forget your money in education and training, drinks, money and only custom- question of crowds and noise past. Whatever may be, the crimi- and in research and development ers. At that time, I was com- they make. There used to be the nal has been punished. Now you (R&D). pletely robbed. The value of my same crowd in the street at that shouldn’t continue worrying”, I "Federal research body and of my soul was com- time and even today. There is no told her everything in a breath. funding is vital," he explained. pletely depleted. But now, I have decrease in the throngs of She cried in response and "Unfortunately, while other returned to my own country with people. At this moment I too am said “My mind feels an acute pinch. countries and regions, such as the germs of AIDS in with me. in the crowd of people. My past has gone through such a China and the European Union, Although I served the brothel for But, the special quality hot torture that the criminal’s get- are increasing their public so many years, I have gone of the street has been to remain ting even a capital punishment investment in R & D, federal empty now. When I have come alone. Even in the crowd except would not heal my wound nor the research spending in the United back, I am here with empty mind one or two faces known some- stain in my character erase, because States is not keeping pace." and carrying a terrible disease times remain mostly unac- of which today I am suffering from Gates suggested an with me. She said. quainted. I am walking on the AIDS. He deserves to die for the increase of 10 percent annually I asked her a lot of ques- side of this crowd without stop- shame he brought to my life. Ka- in U.S. funding for research for tions, only some of which she ping. But the crowd is increasing mala, did you know that the man the next seven years. could answer. She spent the time all the more. “Even at this mo- who had sold me had been released He also urged more talking with me and said “After ment in this place, the crowd has from the prison?” teacher training and higher math my arrival here, I have met the been large as at the Asan market,” When I hear what she told curriculum standards. He said man without name. I found out an old women near me shouts. me I felt that I was sinking where the nation should set a goal of that he hadn’t got married yet. “These people are tremendously I stood. I am frightened. I am doubling the number of science, Really, I didn’t see any differ- increasing in number. Every time choked. No law is made in my technology and math graduates ence between the man without I am afraid that there would be country for a man who sold me. I by 2015. [VOA 3/7/07] name in the past and at the some accident. It is not safe to move away from the place. I don’t present time. He showed the send children to school”, she even like to look back. I don’t For all religious same attraction, the same love prattles on for a long time. She know where I am going now. services Continued from page 6... Anywhere in the US Nepal’s Oscar phenomenon... Two years after the film, Diagnosed with he was referred to Nepal for a local daily reported how he stomach cancer, Thinley is treatment. struggled to raise money for the undergoing chemotherapy. He Therapy has changed treatment of his son, who was felt the first pains about three Thinley beyond description. Gone suffering from chest and back months ago and like the people are his trademark flowing locks Pt. Sridhar Gyawali 240 486 0937 Cell pain. in his part of the world, tried and long moustache. Now the patriarch traditional herbs and medicines. ‘It was chhang (a strong Pashupati Buddha himself is in Kathmandu’s B and However, there was no traditional brew drunk in the Temple B Hospital, fighting stomach cure and he went to Mumbai’s mountains) that caused my 9114 Margo Lane Lanham MD 20706 cancer, local daily Kantipur Tata Hospital. There his disease affliction,’ the patriarch rued in the 301 552 2299 reported Friday. was diagnosed and after a week, hospital.[ET] Nepal Abroad Falgun 26, 2063 / March 10, 2007 Page 7 Fradulent Telephone Tax Refunds, Abusive Roth IRAs Top Off 2007 'Dirty Dozen' Tax Scams .. continued from the previous week.(IRS) 11. Form 843 Tax IRS Still Watches Scams Internal Revenue Service, 9. Structured Entity Abatement: This scam rests on That Fall Off the List Fresno, CA 93888. The mailing Credits: Promoters of this faulty interpretation of the Five of last year’s Dirty Dozen should include specific newly identified scheme are Internal Revenue Code. 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[Source: Nepal Rastra Bank, 03.09.07] Nepal Abroad Falgun 26, 2063 / March 10, 2007 Page 8 Women Trafficking: True Story Of My Friend By Kamala Sarup I wrote this diary about my friend. Due to the compulsion would get some education by go- that environment. The sexually Actually after returning from to sell my body every evening, all ing to the city and could stand on lure rich men filled their thirst Prostitute Brothel, my first meet- the time within me an unknown her own to make her living. But I with me everyday. ing with her began the strange fear, terror and fright created an was brought to this terrible She was obviously day for me. In a way, every day I empire of its own. I felt restless brothel and was sold by my own scared. She cried "It was a great have been meeting a person or the at my living; I was disgusted ev- uncle's son. I was sold just for joke that my right over my own other. Whatever it may be, ery moment with that kind of life. twenty thousand rupees, and I body was snatched away from among those I met at this moment The notorious brothel came to know later that it was a me. Often a question tormented she is a bit different from other where I was living was a place brothel where thousands of girls me from time to time. After all, and, in fact, this is an important where thousands of girls like me were sold and they were forced what was the real meaning of a in our friendship. It's not that I am had to sell their bodies for cheap to sell their bodies for a small person to live as a woman? Was trying to keep this day separate prices. Alas! How hard and full amount of money. it just a means of providing cheap from others from the expected of terror was to live in that envi- In a place where the hu- enjoyment which one could have thought of other things. I am not ronment! When I think of it, my man vultures spend money to by paying money? trying either to interpret the con- heart trembles even today. Al- play foul with raw flesh and the I hated my existence as cept of the philosopher that though the pain within me had prestige of one was ruined just for a woman in thousands of ques- people live in their own ways. another chief reason and that was a handful of coins, how could I tions. What a pity! My body was Whatever it may be, in this situa- the memory never left me. Almost survive in a place such as that? torn and snatched out by hun- tion of tension I am delighted to always I remembered my village. My heart was filled with depres- dreds everyday. When I saw the have met this friend. The mountains, the waterfalls and sion and anguish, but I was un- mistresses of brothels surround- She told me "My daily the forests that extended far and able to express any of my feel- ing me, every time I felt inferior- life's routine has started. The large wide looked as hard as life itself ings to anybody because the trade ity complex. All the males were city of prostitute brothel which is with them uphill and downhill of female bodies was found from hungry for fulfilling their sexual terrifying to look at with its tall filled with the crowds. big lodges to hotels and yellow passion. I felt a strong hatred to- buildings, I felt as if everyone She further added mansions of that city . wards men. But despite the fact I who lived inside felt satisfied and "When I went to the market with In that place bargain of ...Contd. on pg 6 they quenched their hunger. I my mother we had to cross girls, selling them and turning don't like even to remember. I was through the dangerous wild for- them into prostitutes by force in- buried in my mind's inner conflict ests. My mother had a dream ex- flicting untold tortures on them of that really. actly like mine that her daughter were just a common incident in Microsoft's Gates Urges US to Seek More High-Skilled Foreign Workers By Deborah Tate, Capitol Hill The chairman of the giant U.S. In testimony before the streamline the visa application skilled workers to become software company Microsoft is Senate Health, Education, Labor process. permanent residents to help calling on the U.S. government and Pensions Committee, Gates Gates said he believes it retain talent, particularly in the to attract more high-skilled warned that the United States is possible to do background information technology, or IT, foreign workers to the United could risk losing its competitive security checks without having field. States to keep the country edge to other countries if the process become too "The IT industry I competitive in a global economy. Congress does not reform the burdensome. guarantee will be in the United Bill Gates made his comments in immigration system. He also called for ways States to the degree that smart testimony before a Senate panel "Countries like Canada to make it easier for more high- ...Contd. on pg 6 Wednesday, as VOA's Deborah and Australia have been Tate reports from Capitol Hill. beneficiaries of our system, Post Box No 125 Bill Gates expressed which discourages these people Fairfax VA 22038 concern about the U.S. [high skilled foreign workers] immigration system, saying limits with both the limits and the long To, on the number of visas for high- waits, and what the process feels skilled workers, bureaucratic like as they go through the delays in processing them and security checks," he said. exhaustive security checks In the coming weeks, following the September 11, 2001 Congress is expected to consider terrorist attacks are deterring immigration reform legislation, talented foreign workers from including efforts to attract more seeking jobs in the United States. high-skilled workers and