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High-Skilled Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the Senate’s Immigration Bill

High-Skilled Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the Senate’s Immigration Bill

On the road to reform, the Senate’s Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act contains several changes and new provisions for skilled immigration and entrepreneurship. Specifically, the bill provides balanced reforms to the H-1B nonimmigrant visa for high-skilled individuals, various provisions for highly skilled individuals through permanent employment-based immigration, and a new INVEST visa for entrepreneurs. Read More

LAC Wins Release of H-1B Fraud Documents for AILA

LAC Wins Release of H-1B Fraud Documents for AILA

For Immediate Release LAC Wins Release of H-1B Fraud Documents for AILA Washington, D.C.—USCIS released in full the four remaining contested documents in a FOIA lawsuit brought by the American Immigration Council’s Legal Action Center (LAC) and Steptoe & Johnson LLP on behalf of AILA. The… Read More

Immigrants in America: More Skilled and Educated Than Ever Before

Immigrants in America: More Skilled and Educated Than Ever Before

Washington D.C. – Today, the Brookings Institution released a new report, The Geography of Immigrant Skills: Educational Profiles of Metropolitan Areas, which finds that more working-age immigrants hold college degrees than lack high-school diplomas. This newly-released data has broad implications for an immigration debate that is driven largely by… Read More

Federal Court Decision Protects H-1B Employees from Wrongful Arrest

Federal Court Decision Protects H-1B Employees from Wrongful Arrest

Washington D.C. – A recent ruling from a federal judge in Connecticut confirmed that—as the American Immigration Council (AIC) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) argued in an amicus brief—the government may not arrest H-1B employees for whom timely-filed extension applications remain pending. The decision in… Read More

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