Immigration

When traveling to the United States, non-citizens must frequently apply for visas. There are three different types of visa: a student visa, a work visa, ……Read More

Organizers of the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship announced yesterday that acclaimed Sudanese novelist Hammour Ziada — who had been selected as the 2019 fellow — ……Read More

As I was reading about the Trump administration’s possible termination of work permits for a large number of H-4 workers (primarily spouses of H-1B temporary ……Read More

Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Calif., created a stir on February 24, 2018, when she tweeted out a statement saying that she “had learned from ……Read More

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency in charge of granting citizenship to those in the process of becoming Americans, is removing a ……Read More

The White House immigration outline was released today and it’s not good. It could change tomorrow, for all we know, but as it stands now, ……Read More

The 1986 amnesty known by its acronym, IRCA, contained a late addition intended to legalize certain farm workers. The government expected no more than 400,000 ……Read More

San Francisco Bay area newspaper the Mercury News, has published an article titled “H-1B: Foreign citizens make up nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley tech workforce, ……Read More

On January 16, various news media broke the story of the FBI’s arrest of retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee the ……Read More

In recent discussions concerning the status of aliens have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the one subject that each of the parties ……Read More

A Safe Place For All Last Thursday, as Donald Trump’s racist comment about immigrants from “shithole countries” was saturating headlines across the globe, Ravi Ragbir ……Read More

In line with an immigration policy based on merit and skill, not on family ties, the White house is pushing to end chain migration, a ……Read More

On Monday the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador. In turn, the government ……Read More

While I would like the H-1B program shrunk to about one-tenth of its current size, there are smart ways to approach the problem and less-smart ……Read More

In a post on December 11, 2017, I detailed the entry of Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi national and lawful permanent resident who is facing ……Read More