Immigration researcher and entrepreneur, Vivek Wadhwa, was among the experts called to testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform, held on February 5th. His message to Congress was clear: fix STEM immigration now, or face the economic fallout when our knowledge-based economy...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released the March 2013 Visa Bulletin. Included in this visa bulletin are predictions for movement of cutoff dates. In a word, the estimate for EB2, India, is dismal. This summery of the contents of the March Visa Bulletin, including...
Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela Murthy, co-hosted a luncheon at the Center Club on January 29th to kick off this year's fundraising effort for the Journey Home, a joint initiative of the City of Baltimore and the United Way of Central Maryland, which...
The new visa application system, introduced in India in September 2012, requires nonimmigrant visa (NIV) applicants to create a profile at www.ustraveldoc.com/in after completion of the DS-160 form, and to generate the payment code to remit the visa application fee. Next, they must schedule the...
Murthy Law Firm attorney Kevin Andrews was one of 13,000 or so people who braved frigid temperatures for a wintry swim in the Chesapeake Bay, at the annual Polar Bear Plunge that took place on January 26 at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, MD....
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We at the Murthy Law Firm now present our readers with the last in our four-part series of New Year's Reminders, which addresses the importance of checking expiration dates related to immigration cases. The monthly U.S. Department of State (DOS) visa bulletin should also be...
A group of key senators, representing both the Republican and Democratic parties, announced an agreement on the key component principles of immigration reform. These renewed efforts toward comprehensive immigration reform have many similarities to past proposals. Core concepts behind the reform proposal are discussed here...
A recent dispatch from Bloomberg Businessweek puts us in mind of the old line about Nero fiddling while Rome burned. For the past several years, the U.S. Congress has batted around various schemes that - it was hoped - would attract more immigrant entrepreneurs to...
The Baltimore Business Journal just released its 2013 Book of Lists, and, once again, the Murthy Law Firm (MLF) was ranked among the fifty largest law firms in the Baltimore area, based on the number of lawyers in practice here. [See Largest Law Firms in...
