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This article appeared in the Washington Post, and is an opinion piece written by two lawyers. Stacy Caplow is a professor and director of the Safe Harbor Project at Brooklyn Law School. Lauren Kosseff is a third-year student there.
We recently learned that U.S. immigration policy is, in fact, capable of fast action and flexibility. It just depends on who the immigrant is.
The US' H1B visa has frequently appeared in workpermit.com's news section, usually regarding the popular visa's quota of 65,000, which many in the high tech industry wish to raise.
Although the quota hasn't yet been raised, we'd like to take a moment to remind you that if you are planning to apply for an H-1B visa, the time for submitting your application is approaching.
The European Union and several eastern European countries are calling on Washington to allow visa-free travel to the US from all EU countries, warning on Feb. 8 that the issue is festering and could poison pro-American public opinion in those countries.
US President George W. Bush has urged the Congress to raise the number of H-1B visas that allow companies to hire foreign workers for scientific and high-tech jobs.
The issue of overcrowded housing in some US towns is playing a large role in the debate on U.S. immigration.
The overcrowding problem has become an issue as these towns try to prevent landlords from permitting many unrelated people to occupy single-family homes.
Local officials in New York, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia have evicted residents, threatened landlords with fines or jail time or legally narrowed the definition of family to combat a problem they say disrupts neighborhoods, reports USA Today.
U.S. government agents say they will speed up the removal of illegal immigrants caught near the border with Canada, extending a program already in effect along the Mexican border.
The practice, called "expedited removal," speeds up the rate of deportations and makes it less likely that illegal immigrants will slip into the country because immigrant detention centres lack bunk space.