The Brookings Institute reported that the H-1B visa program allows employers to hire foreigners to work in specialty occupations on a temporary basis. Visas are granted in three-year increments with the option to extend up to six years. With sponsorship from their employers, H-1B visa...
CNN.com reported that Daniel Guadalupe stared at the passport application in front of him, dumbfounded. His problem was not the questions asked, but the language they were written in. "I don't speak Spanish very well," he said as he struggled to fill out the Mexican government...
The Huffington Post reported that as long as the Defense of Marriage Act is in effect, same-sex binational couples won't be able to petition for the foreign-born partner to receive legal status. In the meantime, though, a group pushing the Obama administration to delay decisions...
The National Journal reported that more than a dozen states use E-Verify to check the immigration status of new hires or government contractors, but a study has found that state officials have not been implementing the policy uniformly. Some states use the free, Internet-based system that allows...
Reuters reported that a few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading "Migration is a Human Right," marched in Phoenix on Saturday to protest Arizona's two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigration. State law SB-1070, signed by Republican Governor Jan Brewer in April 2010, seeks to drive illegal immigrants...
The Huffington Post reported that Mark Pongo, a 32-year-old immigrant from Ghana, was released from detention earlier this month after 16 months -- or about 487 days -- away from his U.S. citizen wife and friends, during which his case languished in courts with record-high...
Getson & Schatz represented a client who wished to apply for U.S. citizenship. Our client was eligible to become a naturalized citizen based on her permanent residence in the U.S. for at least five years. During the five years preceding the filing of the N-400...
The American Immigration Council reported that who uses H-1Bs and for what types of jobs is a topic of constant debate in Congress and in communities across the country. The Brookings Institute recently released a new report mapping H-1B workers in the U.S which addresses...
The National Journal reported that he world will watch the colorful pageantry of the world's top athletes assembling in London on Friday for the 2012 Olympics. And while all members of Team U.S.A. are U.S. citizens, more than 40 of the nearly 600 athletes representing...
The Los Angeles Times reported that more than 7,180 deportation cases have been closed under an Obama administration program aimed at focusing immigration enforcement on convicted criminals, but the court backlog it was also intended to address continues to swell. Under the review, which was initiated...
