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IMPORTING TECH TALENT: Unease overseas; Attacks may slow influx of foreign-born specialists.
Crain's Chicago Business, October, 2001 by Littman, Margaret
It didn't take long for Melissa Garber Kerpel's telephone to start ringing on Sept. 11. Earlier this year, Ms. Kerpel, an attorney with LaSalle Street law firm Geman Garber & Kerpel, helped the firm's immigration practice launch online division VisaGroup.com to assist corporate clients and their prospective employees in applying for U.S.
work visas. ``The majority of calls were coming from foreign nationals themselves because, in addition to (the questions they had) before, there was a fear of job security and fear of changes in immigration law,'' she says. Amid a swooning technology economy, layoffs and growing talk of war, foreign-born tech workers and the local companies that hire them-as well as a handful of local outfits like VisaGroup that help...
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