The Murthy Law Firm is known for its legal acumen - the brains of our operation. But there are two sides to that coin. The MurthyNAYAK Foundation is the heart - offering support to select nonprofits in the U.S. and NGOs in India. A favorite...
Generations of immigrants have contributed their brainpower and creativity to the grand experiment that is the United States: born risk-takers, adventurers, and entrepreneurs, people with the vision and boldness to venture beyond the borders of everything they've known up to then. This has been true...
Though odds are growing longer that Congress will pass a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill this year, many in the business community remain concerned about what might happen if CIR does pass. Why? As we noted in a recent post, language in the Senate immigration...
Earlier this month, the United Nations sponsored a worldwide observance of the International Day of Older Persons. This year's theme was: "the future we want: what older persons are saying," which highlighted international efforts to place aging issues at the top of the international development...
Hope springs eternal, it would seem, even in the waning days of a particularly fraught session of Congress: in early October, House Democrats introduced a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill, in the teeth of the prevailing partisan gridlock over fiscal and budgetary issues. As the...
All of us at the Murthy Law Firm were profoundly saddened to learn of the stampede that claimed the lives of scores of worshippers at a temple in Ratangarh, in Madhya Pradesh. It was truly an unfathomable stroke of misfortune that turned the joy of...
America enjoys the great good fortune of being a top destination for the world's best and brightest. Our universities, our culture, our companies - indeed our entire economy - are all the richer for it: immigrant entrepreneurs are the creative force behind countless new technologies...
Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the possibility that the House might take up some form of immigration reform legislation when the storm clears from the fiscal and budget crises that began earlier this month. Ever since the Senate...
There's something downright gothic about the current state of immigration reform. Perhaps it's the season - Halloween is just a few weeks off - but CIR is looking more and more "undead" these days, a creature of the same twilight realm as zombies and vampires:...
The backlog of cases currently pending in U.S. Immigration Courts has been growing steadily in recent years, according to statistics from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a government watchdog organization based at Syracuse University. Eleven months into fiscal year (FY) 2013 that ended September...
