The American Immigration Council (AIC) recently awarded the winner of its annual Change in Motion multimedia competition for youth, ages 14-25. Funded by the MurthyNAYAK Foundation, Sheela Murthy was on hand to present the first place award to representatives from Fighting Youth Shouting out for...
While the U.S. presidential election will not take place until November 2016, the nation's attention already seems to be focused on the array of candidates and their early campaign efforts to secure votes. In Virginia, however, a major political race will take place much sooner...
Almost from its inception, the immigrants who helped to build the United States have hailed from nearly every corner of the globe. The first wave of immigrants mostly came from Northern and Western Europe; later, they traveled here from Southern and Eastern Europe. In recent...
This week the Murthy Law Firm celebrates its 21st anniversary. Readers who were around in those early days of our firm - which were the early days of the internet - may recall when Dr. K.V. Rao published a monthly immigration digest, with articles from...
Since the birth of our nation, hopeful, hardworking, and talented immigrants have come to America in search of a better life and the chance to achieve success and prosperity. The freedom to dream big, and to make those dreams a reality, is what sets us...
Throughout the immigrant community, achieving the so-called American dream remains the ultimate goal of many immigrants who long to live and work in the United States. From its very inception, our nation has been molded by countless generations of talented immigrants who came here to...
The American Immigration Council (AIC) has selected the recipient of the 20th annual Immigrant Youth Achievement Award, and his inspiring efforts to improve his local community make him a very deserving honoree. At an awards ceremony held on April 16, 2015, the AIC, a nonprofit based...
As the United States continues to make strides in its post-recession economic recovery, much emphasis has been placed on industries based in STEM areas; that is science, technology, engineering, and math. In an increasingly global and hyper-competitive economy, STEM based fields extend far beyond the...
In the United States, immigration laws typically are designed to provide U.S. companies with the tools necessary to compete and even thrive in the modern day global business environment. One such tool is the L1B nonimmigrant category, which ostensibly was created to allow multinational companies...
With the announcement this past November of President Obama's executive action on immigration, a long simmering debate has once again boiled over - do immigrants 'steal' jobs from American workers? While recent polls reveal that the majority of Americans favor some form of a "path...
