Foreign-born inventors play a key part in maintaining America's technological edge, according to a recent study by the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE). (See Patent Pending: How Immigrants are Reinventing the American Economy, Partnership for a New American Economy, June 2012.) Looking at...
In a recent speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Chicago Congressman Luis Gutierrez used gentle humor to raise a serious question: how can you tell who's an immigrant and who's not? The question couldn't be more timely. Late last month, the Supreme...
Small business often is touted as the greatest engine of job growth in the world's greatest economy. A new study from New York's Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) shows just how much immigrant entrepreneurship contributes to U.S. job growth and our overall economic wellbeing.The FPI study,...
Thousands of immigrants are currently serving in the United States military. At a naturalization ceremony held at the White House on July 4th, 2012, President Obama welcomed 25 active duty service members - all of them immigrants - as some of America's newest citizens. The...
Murthy Law Firm attorney Jessica Lee participated in the fifteenth annual Women of Tomorrow Awards Dinner. This event, sponsored by the Maryland Governor's Commission for Women, was held on June 22nd at the Loews Hotel in Annapolis.The event honors accomplished young women, currently in middle...
It's another case of good news / bad news. First the good news: the Pew Research Center, a leading Washington think tank, recently published some very positive findings in a study entitled, The Rise of AsianAmericans. "Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated, and fastest-growing racial group...
Jonelle Ocloo, Supervising Attorney in the Murthy Law Firm's Green Card Department, chaired the 2012 AILA-DC Chapter's Annual Citizenship Day event. Citizenship Day is a day on which immigration lawyers around the country hold simultaneous pro bono legal clinics to help eligible permanent residents file...
At the 2012 conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), which took place in Nashville earlier this month, several Murthy Law Firm attorneys volunteered to serve on committees of AILA's Washington D.C. chapter for the 2012-2013 term. They will serve in a number of...
While some 40,000 fans were looking on, Sheela Murthy threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Orioles-Nationals baseball game on Sunday, June 24th at Baltimore's Camden Yards. As part of the Girl Scouts' Grand Slam 100th Anniversary Celebration, Murthy was chosen to do the...
After days of avoiding the question when put to him, Mitt Romney finally responded yesterday to President Obama's executive order that provides temporary relief for qualifying immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children. The likely Republican nominee said he would "replace...
