As expected, the US Department of State (DOS) has confirmed that employment based EB2 visas priority date have retrogressed and moved back to 15 August 2007, from May 01, 2010 for Indian and Chinese nationals. The DOS will not issue any new visas to applicants from these areas with priority dates after 15 August 2007. [...] Read more »
White House Jobs Council Proposes More Visas for Skilled Immigrants
Dallas, TX – A recent White House Jobs Council Interim Report issued in October, 2011 calls for more skilled immigrants as a key component to economic recovery in the United States. Citing Google, Intel, Yahoo! and Home Depot as successful American companies started by immigrants that employ hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers, the report [...] Read more »
Startup Visa Act Looks Towards Senate
Google is just one of several prominent tech companies with an immigrant co-founder (Sergey Brin). Under the terms of the bill, immigrant entrepreneurs will be able to receive a two-year visa if their start-ups have received at least $100,000 in capital from investors. After two years, the business must have created at least five new [...] Read more »
To create U.S. jobs, bring in immigrants
In tandem with the $447 billion jobs plan President Barack Obama announced on September 8, his administration is breathing new life into an old program to draw job-creating foreigners to the United States.It’s known as the EB-5 investor program, has a clouded history, and can’t bring much relief to America’s unemployment misery. But with 27 million people unemployed [...] Read more »
Technology sector wins big with US immigration changes
At a meeting in May at Stanford Law School, academics, executives, and lawyers were asked by US Federal chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra and USCIS director Alejandro Mayorkas what they could do to help Silicon Valley; The leading hub for high-tech innovation and development in the United states . The overwhelming answer was to ask for [...] Read more »
USCIS suggests improvements to US Immigrant Investor EB-5 Visa Scheme
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently proposed significant improvements to the USCIS Immigrant Investor Program, the EB-5 Program. This should lead to faster processing of immigrant investor applications. There are 10,000 immigrant visas available each year under the immigrant investor scheme. You can come under the EB-5 immigrant investor scheme if you create [...] Read more »
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