After months of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) processing and likely several thousand dollars, you or your family member has received “lawful permanent resident status” or a “green card.” This is the immigration equivalent of a “golden ticket” because it means two very important things: You can live and work in the U.S. without regard…
Editor’s note: Max Levchin is the CEO of Affirm, co-founder of PayPal, Chairman of Yelp & Glow, and Director at Yahoo and Evernote. We often hear that America is a nation of immigrants, but some members of Congress have forgotten the simple truth – immigration is our country’s single greatest competitive advantage in a growing global…
Napster founder Sean Parker and a group of major players in the Silicon Valley tech scene have launched a new “ideas laboratory and advocacy organization” called the Economic Innovation Group in Washington, D.C. to promote the kind of agenda in Congress that the entrepreneurs backing the group have been pushing for for a while, with…
A new bipartisan think tank with a focus on creating better opportunities for startups and small businesses is launching in Washington, D.C. today with backing from Silicon Valley. Sean Parker, Ron Conway and other well-known tech figures have aligned themselves with several academics and Washington policymakers to form the Economic Innovation Group (EIG). This is…
Washington — In a major move that could benefit Indian technology firms and their employees, President Barack Obama March 24 announce that he was easing the process to obtain L-1B work visas for corporate executives to attract foreign investment and bring workers with specialized knowledge to the U.S. “I’m pleased to announce a new action…
H-1B Visa: Recent news of H-1B employees working in facebook and Google, which allowed spouse of H-1B visa holder to apply for citizenship and green card, more news regarding expanding the visa program have not gone down well with members of U.S senate. The H-1B visa allowed foreign national to work legally work in the…
Q: What is an H-1B Visa? A: An H-1B visa is a temporary, employment-based visa status for skilled foreign guest workers. Administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B program allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers for jobs requiring a college degree or equivalent experience. The fast-growth IT industry has a high…
American Companies, Economy Suffer Under Anticompetitive U.S. System Washington – A new analysis released today by Business Roundtable finds U.S. employment-based immigration policies are “mostly unfavorable” to economic growth and have placed the United States ninth out of 10 advanced economies. “When it comes to immigration policy, America is losing the competitive race for global…
Late last year, I wrote on the controversial executive actions on immigration that President Obama announced in November. As I noted then, those executive actions include several initiatives that will make it easier for employers to hire and retain highly skilled foreign national workers. One of these initiatives—finalizing new regulations to provide work authorization to…
How can 104 legal scholars and immigration law instructors be wrong and one judge be right? This is the question that has left many following the news regarding President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration and conservative U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s attempt to block that order scratching their heads. Friday, March 13, a group…