Social scientists have long recognized that there's something special about immigrants. As historians know, immigrant energy, creativity, and brainpower have driven the growth of this country from its very beginning, and economists often remark about the disproportionate number of patents and doctorates earned by foreign-born...
What does immigration have to do with American agriculture? Quite a bit, according to a recent study from the American Farm Bureau, a leading advocacy organization for the nation's agricultural sector. The relationship is largely a question of labor economics. As the Farm Bureau study...
Answer: No. While it is true that you should be in valid status during the 60-day grace period upon the expiration of your initial OPT employment authorization, a timely filed STEM extension application has to be filed (i.e. received by USCIS) prior to the expiration of...
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a public notice on February 6, 2014 reconfirming that unpaid internships are a permissible form of employment for foreign nationals in F-1 status engaged in initial optional practical training (OPT). This statement was issued in response to...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)Â announced on February 10, 2014 that it has contracted with a professional research firm to solicit feedback from "customers" and evaluate how satisfied stakeholders are with the services provided by the USCIS. The research firm, Barbaricum, has already begun...
A post on the Christian Science Monitor WebSite put us in mind of a popular bumper sticker that admonishes: "Don't believe everything you think." This advice is especially relevant in the context of immigration, because the conventional wisdom so often proves to be wrong -...
When President Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the summer of 2012, many supported it on the grounds of fairness: it didn't seem right to deport undocumented immigrants who came here as children, through no fault of their own -...
Answer: To be really safe to legally remain on H1B status, without interruption, the PERM case should have been started much earlier. Ideally, the employer should have taken steps to file the PERM at least 365 days before the H1B six-year expiration point. Since it is...
Answer: A person who had an H1B petition approval in 2007, but did not use all the six years of time, should be able to have an employer file a new H1B case and not have to be counted against the H1B cap or have to...
