US Immigration News

Democratic lawmakers and their Republican allies are working on measures to draft a bipartisan immigration reform bill for the United States. The Congress has generally fallen into disfavor with the American public, with the dismal failure of any significant leadership or progress on immigration reform during 2006 being one of the more prominent topics.

U.S. Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has written a letter to Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao about her concern that employers were taking advantage of lax safeguards in the H-1B process to take advantage of foreign workers and endanger American wage standards.

Santa isn't welcome in Hazleton because he's an illegal immigrant just like all the others the small Pennsylvania town in the United States is trying to get rid of - or so someone would have you believe.

During the two-month electronic registration period for the United States Diversity Visa Lottery (otherwise known as the Green Card Lottery), over 6.4 million entries were received. Taking into account dependents, there are 10 million participants in the 2008 Diversity Visa Lottery.

The U.S. fiscal year 2006 saw an increased number of H-1B visas granted to highly skilled workers from India, while students wishing to study in the United States should have few problems obtaining their visas if they are accepted by an American university, according to authorities.

H-1B visas

A Denver District Court judge ruled on 14 December that Colorado Division of Motor Vehicle (DMV) rules requiring driver's license applicants to produce two or more documents to prove legal residence in the United States discriminate against the poor and cause undue harm.

Judge Larry Naves granted an injunction that will prohibit the DMV from using the rules.