US Immigration News

The government has reached the limit on H-1B visas (the "high-tech worker visa") for 2007, which begins 01 October, 2006.

The leed from the official press release reads "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced [01 June, 2006] that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap for fiscal year 2007 (FY 2007)."

Residing in the U.S. (or any country) illegally can create quite a number of problems. One that has recently come to be noticed is that sometimes younger people who perform well in school actually, well, perform too well.

They are usually the children of foreign-born parents who came into the country with less than proper paperwork. There are many reasons and methods, but people should seriously consider the consequences of entry by illegal methods.

Many families in the US have decided to birth their children at home in recent years. Conventional hospital births have become expensive with dramatically rising medical costs in the US and have contributed to the trend.

However, many people are finding that hospital births are not necessarily much safer than home births. With information available today and people generally being more educated, much of the risk of home births traditionally associated with the practice has been reduced.

U.S. authorities will be able to keep trawling through personal data on passengers flying from Europe, even though the European Union's highest court found problems recently with the accord that made airlines share the information.

The court ruling requires EU and U.S. officials to change the legal foundation of the deal before the end of September, but it has no immediate effect on a program that lets U.S. officials see dozens of pieces of information about each passenger - including name, address and credit card details.

There are a number of hidden details in the immigration reform bills passed by each house of the US Congress in the past weeks. The Senate bill alone is over 600 pages, with dozens of amendments added during the final days before being passed.

Nearly all specifics will be negotiated before a bill from both houses is sent to the president to sign into law, but here is a preview of some changes that are likely in the coming month.

Each house of the US Congress passed bills in the past weeks. These will now be negotiated into a final bill which will be presented to the president to sign into law. Quite a bit of confusion and rhetoric exists, largely because the bills represent several hundred pages each (the Senate bill is over 600 pages).