For generations, international development experts have been fretting about the so-called "brain drain," when a country's most promising students and professionals leave a less-developed country to move overseas - often permanently - in pursuit of better opportunities. Over the years, "brain drain" has been blamed...
If the U.S. Congress cannot reach an agreement on a funding extension before midnight tonight, there will be what is commonly referred to as a government shutdown, effective October 1, 2013. In such a situation, government services are not completely eliminated. However, government operations are...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) Diversity Visa (DV) "Green Card" Lottery registration period for fiscal year 2015 (FY15) runs from October 1, 2013 through November 2, 2013. The DV lottery program allots up to 50,000 immigrant visa numbers annually to applicants who meet certain...
Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau posts the results of its latest American Community Survey, a statistical compendium that tracks several demographic traits of the American population: employment and education, income and lack of it, the age, gender, ethnicity, and languages of the people who...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has confirmed earlier rumors that the employment-based (EB) visa numbers available for fiscal year 2013 (FY13) been exhausted. This is not uncommon, as FY13 ends on September 30. Thus, DOS seeks to allocate visa numbers in a manner that...
... I was issued a Form I-515A by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with instructions to mail it to Students and Exchange Visitors Program (SEVP) with the required documents within 30 days. I forgot to do it and it is now 32nd day since my...
Every year, the Baltimore Business Journal releases a highly anticipated list of the area's top 50 woman-owned businesses. In 2013, the Murthy Law Firm made the cut again, as one of the area's fifty largest woman-owned businesses. [See Largest Woman-Owned Businesses Based in the Baltimore...
The fate of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) remains uncertain, at best, as the House of Representatives haltingly works its way through the crowded legislative agenda to which it returned at the beginning of the month. We won't rehearse here the welter of economic arguments that...
If you've been following the twists and turns of the immigration debate in recent years, you've surely noticed the massive wave of state-level immigration bills that crested in 2011, and, for a time, seemed to be receding for good. These included Arizona's infamous S.B. 1070...
Individuals selected for the U.S. Department of State (DOS) diversity visa (DV) lottery program for fiscal year 2014 (FY14) are likely to have questions about how to move forward with permanent resident ("green card") applications. The system is based on the DOS visa bulletin, but...
