Two U.S. lawmakers, a Democrat and a Republican, have introduced legislation in Congress urging the State Department to speed-up J-1 visa approvals for international physicians. Entitled the Grant Residency for Additional Doctors (GRAD) Act of 2015, introduced April 23 by Reps. Grace Meng, D-NY and Tom Emmer, R-Minnesota, is expected to end the logjam…
Current approval process by the State Department mired in delays. AB Wire NEW YORK: U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Tom Emmer (R-MN), members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced legislation on Thursday that would direct the State Department to speed-up the visa approval process for international physicians who are slated to work at…
All 85,000 H-1B visas for 2016 are spoken for, snapped up in less than seven days in an application process that began April 1. Congress allotted 60,000 regular H-1Bs for fiscal year 2016, and 25,000 special visas for applicants with advanced degrees. The number of applicants in both categories exceeded the congressional caps, so U.S.…
While they did not receive much attention when they were released last month, new projections from the Census Bureau show the enormous impact of immigration on the U.S. population. For the first time, the Bureau projected the future size of the immigrant (foreign-born) population and found that by 2023 immigrants will account for more than…