NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has been actively considering ways to revamp a temporary visa program used to bring foreign workers to the United States to fill high-skilled jobs, according to sources familiar with the discussions. Possibilities for reforming the distribution of H-1B visas, which are […]
Author: Foster
Here’s One Immigration Policy That Should Withstand President Donald Trump
13 Jan
by Foster, on News
By Kenneth Rapoza Over the last 12 months, Americans have been bombarded with headlines and commentary about Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the Mexican border, and deporting an estimated 14 million immigrants who have overstayed their visas. While Trump himself has never articulated his immigration policy beyond […]
By Justine Brown In 2015, Southern California Edison workers complained that more than 500 of them were laid off so the company could bring in cheaper H-1B workers from other countries. The year prior, former Disney workers said the same thing happened to them when 250 employees were laid off […]
February 2017 Visa Bulletin Shows Slight Advancement for EB-2 China and Entire EB-3 Category
13 Jan
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) recently published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for February 2017, reporting slight advancement in the “final action cutoff date” for EB-2 applicants born in China and for the entire EB-3 category. The final action dates for other employment based categories remained the same or advanced […]