Employment-based permanent immigration (often referred to as the "green card process") is generally a three-part process, starting with a PERM labor certification (LC). The entire green card process is often lengthy and, in many situations, takes years to complete. The basic steps required prior to...
Everyone seems to agree that U.S. immigration policy is badly in need of repair, but there is substantially less concurrence about what is broken and how to fix it. As a recent New York Times Op-Ed piece points out, the problem of illegal immigration gets...
In the days before credit cards, many people bought big-ticket items "on time," paying the needful in installments until the debt was paid in full. There are signs that we may be going back to the future, as it were, with our immigration policy. Having...
The Pew Hispanic Center recently released a demographic study showing that the annual influx of undocumented immigrants "was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005." (See U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows are...
In recent years, states and localities have faced increasing pressure from fear mongers, nativists, and other constituencies to take the immigration law into their own hands. Many of these attempts have been reported to our readers on the MurthyBlog. Although Arizona received far and away...
It doesn't happen all that often, but often enough to warrant caution among travelers to the United States: Homeland Security officials seizing laptops, smart phones, and other electronic devices at the border and searching their contents - documents, photos, call logs, and the like -...
The beginning of each fiscal year marks the start of another U.S. Department of State (DOS) diversity visa (DV) "green card" lottery opportunity. The start of fiscal year 2011 (FY11) on October 1, 2010, means that it is time to begin another lottery cycle for...
At a time of mounting religious tensions around the world - including right here in our own backyard - it is heartening to read a story like the one that recently appeared in the New York Times, under the heading of "Amritsar Journal." (See A...
Robert Litan is a pillar of the Washington establishment. A senior economics fellow at the Brookings Institution, Litan also is affiliated with the pro-entrepreneurship Kauffman Foundation. He often is quoted in the press, and is a regular contributor to national debates on economic policy. When...
As we approach the start of the U.S. government's fiscal year 2011 (FY11), many MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers plan to transition from F-1, or other nonimmigrant statuses, to H1B status. October 1st is the start of a new fiscal year for the U.S. Citizenship and...
