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Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel and Executive Vice President, will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the comprehensive immigration bill introduced by the bipartisan group of senators known as the ‘Gang...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Today, the U.S. Senate took a significant first step toward reforming our nation’s broken and outdated immigration system with the introduction of comprehensive legislation by the ‘Gang...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Beginning next week – on April 1 – employers can start filing applications for H-1B visas for skilled workers that they are looking to hire to fill open jobs here in the U.S. Many...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Brad Smith, general counsel and executive vice president of Microsoft, issued the following statement on today’s introduction of the Immigration Innovation Act of 2013: “It’s critical that America address the shortage of workers...

Editor’s Note: The following post from Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs Fred Humphries was originally published on the Computer Science Education Week Blog on Dec. 11. Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft The United States is facing...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, 20 organizations issued a letter in support of Microsoft’s new National Talent Strategy , which outlines ideas for securing U.S. competitiveness and economic growth through citizenship efforts and strategy related to STEM education...

Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft All the signs are pointing toward a growing consensus – high-skilled immigration is critical to our nation’s economic recovery. Now is the time to act on high-skilled immigration reform to further drive this recovery...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Microsoft’s Innovation and Policy Center hosted a widely attended panel focused on STEM Education and the Race to the Future on Thursday in our Washington, D.C office. The “@Microsoft Conversation” featured National Governors...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Yesterday, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith was the featured keynote speaker at the Washington Council on International Trade Conference (WCIT) luncheon in Seattle. The conference, which was attended...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Microsoft’s Brad Smith urging lawmakers to pursue a “race to the future” approach to secure U.S. competitiveness and growth. Building on Microsoft’s National Talent Strategy...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues In this edition of The Week in Tech Policy, we have stories on California banning employers and universities from asking for Facebook and social media information from employees and students, new Internet radio legislation and a new privacy bill...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Yesterday, Microsoft released a white paper highlighting a key challenge facing the U.S. economy – the critical and growing shortage of skilled workers able to fill the new high-skilled jobs that are being created. The white paper outlines...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft The United States faces a growing economic challenge – a substantial and increasing shortage of individuals with the skills needed to fill the new jobs the private sector is creating...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues As the private and public sectors look to rebuild the economy, they face the same questions: How can the United States strengthen education and American competitiveness so that the next generation will have the skills they need to succeed in a...

Posted by Mike Egan Director of Government Affairs, Microsoft Yesterday, Microsoft Political Action Committee partnered with CityClub of Seattle to host a public debate on our Redmond campus among the candidates running for the 1st Congressional District seat in Washington. Because the district is...

Posted by Anne Gavin Director, U.S. State Government Affairs, Microsoft Microsoft and the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) held a Technology Town Hall Forum featuring Virginia Senate Candidates George Allen and Tim Kaine at our Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, Va., on Thursday. ...

Posted by Karen Jones Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, HR Legal, Microsoft Yesterday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it had reached the statutory cap for H-1B specialty occupation petitions for fiscal year 2013, giving us a stark reminder of the continuing obstacles...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft This has been an important week for immigration reform efforts in Congress. Reflecting the rising recognition that our country wins when we invite the world's best minds into the American...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Today, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin receiving H-1B petitions filed by employers across America looking to secure the talents of some of the world’s brightest...

Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft A new study released yesterday by the American Enterprise Institute confirms the powerful job-creation effects for American workers when well-educated foreign nationals are welcomed into our workforce. According to the study...

Posted by Karen Jones Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, HR Legal, Microsoft Our country’s economic strength relies in significant part on the contributions of the best and the brightest talent from around the world. At Microsoft, we see this every day through the great work of our...

Posted by Brad Smith Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Microsoft Editor’s Note: On Oct. 13 th , Brad Smith was recognized by the White House as a “Champion of Change” – a weekly White House initiative to highlight Americans making an impact in their communities...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel Over the past 18 months, a number of us at Microsoft have been working with Kids in Need of Defense , a pro bono organization dedicated to providing legal representation to the roughly 8,000 unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in the U.S. who face deportation...

Posted by Fred Humphries Managing Director U.S. Government Affairs Today marks an important new beginning for efforts to repair the United States’ flawed immigration system. We at Microsoft congratulate President Obama for convening a bipartisan meeting at the White House on immigration reform...

Posted by Fred Humphries Managing Director, U.S. Government Affairs Late last week we sent letters of support to the House and Senate sponsors of an important piece of legislation known as the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The DREAM Act, as it is commonly known, would permit...