US Immigration News

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they have received enough H-1B petitions to satisfy the congressionally mandated cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year 2008.

The United States State Department is warning Americans who need passports that they should expect and plan for longer than usual processing times. While the longer times are generally not longer than two additional weeks, they are still strongly advising people to apply as soon as possible if they think they will need a passport this year.

At the beginning of the year, a new law became effective that requires Americans - and everyone else - to have a valid passport to cross the border of the United States by air. There are very few, exclusive exemptions.

The United States government will be accepting H-1B petitions starting on 02 April 2007. The new petitions will be subject to the fiscal year 2008 (FY 2008) cap.

In a particularly embarrassing admission, the inspector general for the United States' Department of Homeland Security released a report on Monday indicating that they cannot account for over 600,000 foreigners who were ordered to leave the country.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on 23 March that it had received a sufficient amount of petitions to reach the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the final six months of fiscal year 2007 (FY 2007). The limit for H-2B workers is 33,000 for the second half of the fiscal year.

Currently a hot debate in American politics, and a sure-fire point of contention in the race for the next United States presidential election in 2008, is the subject of immigration reform.

So what exactly is it?

Some history