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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is proposing to amend existing regulations pertaining to special immigrant and nonimmigrant religious worker visa classifications. The proposed rule focuses on how the agency can best ensure the integrity of the religious worker program by eliminating opportunities for fraud in the program while, at the same time, streamlining the… Read More
Radio talk-show host Bill O’Reilly recently got into a shouting match with Geraldo Rivera about the hot topic of immigration, which ABIL President Angelo Paparelli noted “demonstrates the intensity of feelings on both sides of the debate.” The TV dust-up began with comments about a drunk-driving accident being caused by an undocumented man from Mexico… Read More
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has changed the name of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the name of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Click here to read the notice.
A color-coded map released by Global Insight shows the state-by-state ratios of H-1B applications to employment. The application numbers are broken down by state and then weighted by total employment (to control for size) to show which states are most active in seeking out foreign labor for technical service positions. The company noted that research… Read More
USCIS announced yesterday afternoon that it has received enough H-1B cap-subject petitions to meet the H-1B cap for the fiscal year starting October 1, 2007. Approximately 260,000 cap-subject H-1B petitions were received by Tuesday afternoon, April 3. Only 65,000 slots are available for most applicants. There is a separate cap of 20,000 additional slots for… Read More
In the March 2007 edition of California Lawyer, Mark A. Ivener, author of Handbook of Immigration Law, Volumes I and II, was quoted in “Fed Up With The Feds,” an article about frustrated local jurisdictions passing their own immigration-related measures. He said he is amazed that some of these ordinances see the light of day… Read More
Roll Call and GalleryWatch have launched Congress Now!, (www.congressnow.com) an online source of legislative news. The newsletter for CongressNow! will appear in mid-afternoon, five days per week, and will feature news, analysis, and information on committee markups. Breaking news will be posted to CongressNow.com throughout the day and sent via e-mail alerts. These features are… Read More
A new report on the future of small business, authored by the Institute for the Future, finds that immigrant entrepreneurs will drive a new wave of globalization, and that U.S. immigration policy and the outcome of the current immigration debates will affect how this segment performs over the next decade. The “Intuit Future of Small… Read More
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report analyzing challenges that continue to face the US-VISIT program. The GAO noted that US-VISIT has improved the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) ability to process visitors and verify identities upon entry, but found that management controls in place to identify and evaluate computer and other… Read More
The National Security Archive at George Washington University has released a new report finding that, 10 years after passage of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments, several federal agencies fall short of the law. The Department of Labor was cited for having no central reading room and no required documents available, and a… Read More