Amid the goodies President Obama sought to provide to his Indian hosts - such as his endorsement of a permanent Indian seat on the United Nations Security Council - the President was at pains to represent his trip as a trade mission that will benefit...
It's no secret. Work visas are getting harder to come by for thousands of H1B and L-1 visa applicants, who now face stiff new fees of $2,000 (for H1B visas) or $2,250 (for L-1 visas), if their prospective employers employ 50 or more workers in...
Even as some legislators prepare to roll up the welcome mat, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced an initiative to give all new citizens a standard U.S. Citizenship welcome packet when they take the oath of citizenship. According to a message from...
Local immigration laws seem to be all the rage. Although it received most of the blame - or credit - for the recent flurry of home-grown immigration laws, passed by states and localities, Arizona is far from the only jurisdiction to do so. You may...
The most ardent immigration restrictionists like to entertain fantasies of a massive government roundup, to arrest every last illegal immigrant and summarily deport (the correct term now is "remove") them. Such fantasies gained remarkable currency in the recent election season, migrating from the outermost fringes...
There seems an endless number of political obituaries mourning - or celebrating - the demise of any hope for a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill, with immigration hawks descending on Congress in a matter of weeks. According to some commentators, though, rumors of the death...
Don't look now, Silicon Valley, but your foreign competition is catching up - and not just India, as it turns out, but the United Kingdom. According to a report last week in The Guardian, British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to build an extensive new...
The only thing we can say for sure is that last week's mid-term elections decisively shifted the balance of power toward the Republicans. The GOP wrested control of the House of Representatives from Democrats with a new and substantial majority, while whittling the Democratic Senate...
A new study from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) points to a small but significant phenomenon among second-generation IndianAmericans. Driven by career opportunities as well as family ties and quality-of-life concerns, MPI found, some IndianAmericans are going "back" to the country of their parents' birth...
The New York Times reports that Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, has promised to bring the DREAM Act to the floor of the Senate for a vote some time after election. (See Reid Promises Immigration Vote After Election, by Ashley Southall, New York Times, The...
