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Democrat vs. Republican Immigration Platforms
Presidential elections provide the opportunity to peer into the heart of each party’s core constituencies through examination of their respective platforms. When it comes to immigration, the same rules hold. A review of this year’s Democrat and Republican platforms reveals dramatic...
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Increased DOL Enforcement On The Horizon
In an already excessively regulated employment climate, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is taking steps to ramp up enforcement of the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program by proposing numerous measures that will burden employers with additional costs, reduce employers’ ability to have a mobile...
Read MoreRetaining Homegrown Talent Serves Our National Interest
On June 15, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that, as part of its exercise of prosecutorial discretion, immigration authorities will no longer pursue the removal (deportation) of certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Eligible...
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Protecting Our Foreign-Born Talent: Looking To STEM And Beyond To Boost Our Economy
Among the few agreements on Capitol Hill concerning immigration reform, legislators from both sides of the aisle agree on America’s need for talent, particularly in advanced fields such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). American businesses, in addition to...
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H-1B Demand Surges Back
The government’s H-1B filing season for the 2013 fiscal year (FY2013) began on April 2, 2012, with a renewed surge in U.S. employer demand for professional workers. With an annual limitation of 65,000 H-1B petitions (plus another 20,000 for workers holding U.S. advanced degrees), the H-1B...
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Immigrant Visa Backlogs Increase Exponentially
If your organization employs highly skilled foreign nationals, then you have probably heard grumblings over the past few weeks regarding the recent retrogression in employment-based immigrant visa cutoff dates for advanced degree or exceptional ability China-mainland and India-born workers. If...
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The Limits Of Discretion
In a unanimous decision earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court saw fit to criticize the Department of Homeland Security for overreliance on the discretion of individual officers in deportation proceedings. In Judulang v. Holder, the Court strongly admonished the agency, finding that...
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