This is a piecemeal act that includes all of the stuff that CIR would have for skilled legal immigrants. This includes provisions to reduce the visa backlog, H1-B reform and F1 student visa reform.
SKILL ACT of 2010
I’ve stopped getting too excited about just introductions of new bills. It all depends on how it’s received and [...]
I had a small, Twitter-hosted dustup recently with Trevor Loy, a pleasant fellow who, when he is not Twittering, brings truth and justice to the world via the agency of venture capital. Loy was hot and bothered over some turn of events in Congress having to do with immigration policy. Many entrepreneurs are immigrants, you [...]
This is turning out to be more and more of a heated debate. I am hearing about this from friends and co-workers and of course, being an immigrant, only my closest friends actually reveal their real opinions to me. One of my co-worker friends, an American, thinks it’s a no-brainer that H1Bs should be laid [...]
I’ve been trying to think of a list of the top 10 biggest issues that legal immigrants face today. There are hundreds of applications and each and every one of us has a different story. But many of us share the same kinds of worries at some point or the other. I am sure each [...]
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Most of the readers and authors of this blog are immigrants to the US. We all have a story, don’t we? The idea
that United States is the land of opportunity and education/work there is something I should aim for, was planted quite early on in my head. My parents regularly pointed out other kids that [...]
This has been a point of debate at many forums and groups. According to Rajiv Khanna, a reputed Immigration Attorney, YES. See his blog post -
Q1. Can a legal permanent resident(LPR) change career after say one year from his AOS approval to an entirely different field from the one for which his labor and his [...]
Acting Director of USCIS Jonathan “Jock” Scharfen writes regular blog posts on the dhs.gov blog Leadership
Journal. Read his blog post on USCIS Processing Questions relating to Green Cards, Naturalization cases and I-140 processing.
First, I am glad that the Acting Director is taking the time out to communicate with the immigrant community. It’s a very [...]
I don’t even know where to start on this one. Let’t just say that hundreds, may be even thousands, are affected by the 17-month delay on the part of USCIS to approve I-140 (Immigrant Petition for alient worker. what’s an i-140?). I am one of them, and the USCIS does not seem to care the [...]
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