On 1 Aug., the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that 47,395 new H1B petitions had already been filed against the fiscal year (FY) 2006 cap. The United States H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa, which allows a US company to employ a foreign individual for up to six years.
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Two of the United States Senate's most important politicians have urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to pass immigration reform legislation. Their Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act (SAOIA) was introduced in the Senate earlier this year. The bill has remained under Senate Judiciary Committee consideration since early May. Another version of SAOIA is also under consideration in the House of Representatives.
A published report says that US President George Bush will attempt to gain Hispanic voters for the 2006 elections by "relaxing immigration policies."
Strategists told the Los Angeles Times that the plan will attempt to bring Hispanic businesses and immigration advocates into the Republican party, while marginalizing hard-liners in the party.
A report released on 25 July found that immigrants are not swamping the U.S. health care system and use it far less than native-born Americans. The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found that immigrants accounted for 10.4 percent of the U.S. population but only 7.9 percent of total health spending and 8 percent of government health spending.
A special feature from the Washington Post.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers are trying to stay in the United States. The wait is often long.
The backlog of foreign workers seeking green cards, which allow immigrants to live and work in the United States permanently, numbers more than 330,000. In September, the Department of Labor set up centers in Philadelphia and Dallas to quicken the first step of processing for employment-based green cards.
workpermit.com brings you an opinion originally printed in the San Diego Union-Tribune, about immigrant cleaning personnel in the United States.
It is usually a good thing that a group of people is considered highly employable in the United States. But not when the people are illegal immigrants, and the reason they're employable is because they're exploitable.