WASHINGTON The House and Senate are negotiating a proposed change to the allocation of employment-based visas for high-skilled immigrants that could win approval this month, leading to longer wait times for Latin American immigrants while helping Indian and Chinese immigrants,…
President Trump promised to pursue merit-based immigration reform. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen. Earlier this month, the State Department finished taking applications for what’s called the “Diversity Visa Lottery” as required by law, a program through which every year 50,000 immigrants…
People seeking U.S. citizenship deserve better. On December 1, 2020, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service began administering a new naturalization test to those hoping to become U.S. citizens. The test draws from 128 potential civics questions, with the approved…
WASHINGTON – U.S. legal permanent residents on the path to naturalization will now be required to take a longer and more complex citizenship test. The new civics test is drawn from 128 questions test takers must be prepared to answer…
Up to 300,000 additional undocumented immigrants could be allowed to apply for protection from deportation under a new court ruling. President Trump had sought to cancel the program. A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to fully restore…
The passage of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act by the Senate on Wednesday comes as a big relief to Indian IT professionals who come to the US on H-1B work visas and their current waiting period for Green Card…
In a significant blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict high-skilled immigration, a federal judge declared the administration violated the law when it published two regulations in October to restrict H-1B visas. The plaintiffs – businesses and universities led…
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill Sen. Mike Lee pushed through the Senate aims to end what he calls discrimination in the nation’s immigration system while increasing protections for American workers. The measure, which passed the Senate by unanimous consent…
A bill that would ensure automatic U.S. citizenship for the children of U.S. military service members will soon hit the president’s desk. The Citizenship for Children of Military Members & Civil Servants Act passed the House and Senate with bipartisan…
A couple of months ago, a woman approached a Miami immigration law firm with a problem: her naturalization application had seemingly stalled — it was stuck in processing for nearly a decade. She had gone through her citizenship interview, but…
