Department of Homeland Security (DHS) The new department's first priority is to protect the nation against further terrorist attacks. Component agencies will analyze threats and intelligence, guard our borders and airports, protect our critical infrastructure, and coordinate the response of our nation for future emergencies. Department of...
We have pointed this out before: international visitors bring a huge amount of revenues to this country - $134 billion in 2010, according to the U.S. Travel Association (USTA) - expenditures that directly support about 931,000 U.S. jobs, with total wages of $24.7 billion in...
Here's a tip for our readers in the Washington-Baltimore metro area: this year, the National Portrait Gallery commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America with a special exhibition on Juliette Gordon Low, the Savannah, Georgia native who founded the American Girl Guides...
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The U.S. Department of State has released the February 2012 Visa Bulletin. The employment-based, second preference (EB2) category cutoff date moves forward by a full year, to January 1, 2010 for India and China. The decision to dramatically advance the cutoff dates is based on...
After the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued denials of applications and petitions, many individuals and companies seek help by contacting us at the Murthy Law Firm with their inquiries. It is sometimes possible to challenge the decision of the USCIS by filing...
It was widely expected that the U.S. Department of State Visa Bulletin for January 2012 would show advancement in the employment-based, second preference (EB2) cutoff dates for India and China. In fact, the Visa Bulletin surprised many, with EB2 cutoff advancement to January 1, 2009,...
Late-Breaking Update As a further development related to the hold on H.R. 3012, a related bill was introduced in the Senate on December 13, 2011. The related bill, S. 1983, is also entitled the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011. S. 1983 was introduced...
The Employment Creation Immigrant Visa (EB5) program was established to provide the means for a foreign national investor to secure permanent residence (a "green card") by investing in a U.S. business, thereby, creating jobs for U.S. workers. Historically, the program has been fraught with problems....
The legal skirmishing has gone on for months, ever since Arizona's controversial immigration law, popularly known as S.B. 1070, was signed into law back in April 2010. You may recall that a year later, in April 2011, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court...
