Toolkit Addition

Toolkit: Immigration Resources

With labor shortages reaching epidemic proportion, many recruiters and companies are looking overseas. If you're using or considering expanding into immigrant labor pools, you'll find the following resources very useful:

• The Siskind, Susser, Haas & Chang Home Page is, by leaps and bounds the best single resource for the latest news, immigration forms, and emergency legal updates

• American Immigration Lawyers Association
  

• Immigration Lawyers on the Web includes links to Internet immigration resources.
  

• The Center for Immigration Studies the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and others impacts of immigration
  

• FAQ - Dual Citizenship
  

• American Citizens Abroad
  

• Richard LeVine's Page on the Tax Aspects of US Immigration.
  

• Immigrant and Refugee Rights
  

• American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Page
  

• Federal Publications Immigration Products great immigration law resources
  

• Directory of American Employers who Sponsored Foreign Professionals
  

• Immigration Assistant for Windows - a form software product developed by I.T.A.
  

  
  

Search Tips

Search Tip: One Seek

Another player has entered the alternative Web search and navigation field.

OneSeek Corporation recently launched OneSeek.com, a site which offers a different teachnique/approach to finding information on the web.

There are two features which differentiate OneSeek from the rest of what is becoming a crowded area of the Web.

The first is called "WebChains" (which sound a lot like automated "Web Rings...). WebChains are implemented as pop-up windows which contain "Forward", "Back" and "Fast Forward" buttons, like a VCR (can you program yours?). You use the controls to browse through groups of related sites. OneSeek includes a variety of pre-defined WebChains - all of which include only "high quality sites".

A quick surf through the "Jobs" chain, for example, whisked us through a round-up of the usual suspects - Monster Board, 4Work, BestJobsUSA and so forth.

However, you can also create your own WebChains and then bookmark them for future use. Any website can be part of a WebChain; it is not necessary to make any changes or add code to the sites in the chain.

The second feature is the OneSeek "Parallel Search Machine". (Which sounds like something out of Dr Who...) This lets users query the major search engines, as well as top content sites in a variety of categories, simultaneously.

Category searches often produce higher quality results than general web searches because the query is executed directly on sites which specialize in an information category.

Currently available search categories include news, business, sports, entertainment, travel, politics, health, stocks, software technical support, shareware/downloads, UseNet, and web publishing.

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