Good news for immigrants with medical training and/or fluency in any of 44 strategic languages: the U.S. military has revived a special recruiting program called Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) that provides an expedited path to citizenship for participants, bypassing the lengthy...
Judging by the spate of recent articles on the subject, foreign-born entrepreneurs and STEM workers are finally getting due recognition for their contributions to the U.S. economy: starting high-tech businesses and creating entirely new industries - and jobs - in the process. Although the pace...
Back in the '50s and '60s, Silicon Valley was in its infancy, and the few Indian engineers who worked there were mostly low-level employees of America's nascent high-tech sector. This according to Neesha Bapat, the lead researcher for Vivek Wadhwa's team, whose study, "America's New...
Sheela Murthy is grateful to her adopted country for all the ways it has contributed to her success, and she's made a personal commitment to give back to the community whenever she can. Her contributions take many forms. Ms. Murthy provides leadership to important institutions...
As we've often noted on the MurthyBlog, immigrant entrepreneurs have fueled much of America's growth in the high-tech sector over the past two decades. Since 1995, immigrants have founded or co-founded more than half of all Silicon Valley firms, in the process launching many of...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner recently met in New Delhi with Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, for the third meeting of the India-U.S. Economic and Financial Partnership. [See Joint Statement of Secretary Geithner and Indian Finance Minister Chidambaram at the 2012 U.S.-India Economic and Financial...
The Brookings Institution held September 27, 2012 a panel discussion, entitled Education and Immigration Reform: Reigniting American Competitiveness and Economic Opportunities. The discussion kicked off with a presentation by Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Brad Smith, who proposed a two-pronged solution to what...
A recent report from Congressional Research Service (CRS) should help put to rest a popular misconception, one that seems to gain currency around election time: that illegal aliens are eligible for a panoply of federal benefits. [See Unauthorized Aliens' Access to Federal Benefits: Policy and...
According to recent estimates from the Migration Policy Institute, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program could allow as many as 1.76 million undocumented immigrants, who were brought here as children, to get a two-year deferral of removal (deportation) and permission to work in...
There's no telling when Congress may get around to dealing with immigration reform again, but pressure continues to mount, and members may find it increasingly difficult to procrastinate further on a matter long overdue for legislative attention. For a time, conventional wisdom held that comprehensive...
