Immigrants applying for a green card might want to think before they ink. In recent years, US immigration officials have been scrutinizing the tattoos of foreigners seeking documentation in what some say is a misguided effort to prevent organized crime in Latin America from crossing the border, reports the Wall Street Journal. A section of [...] Read more »
America’s New Tiger Immigrants
Asians have arrived in record numbers in recent years and are transforming the terms of the debate Immigrants at a naturalization ceremony in Philadelphia on Sept. 16. No Country on earth is in the same league as the U.S. when it comes to the quantity of immigrants who have come here and the quality of [...] Read more »
For immigrants, recent policy changes are personal
Nancy Ayala, right, says she lived in the U.S. undocumented for 10 years Nancy Ayala arrived in the U.S. 11 years ago, at the age of 9. “Why did I move to the States? I still don’t know. For a better education, for a better life,” she said. One of her biggest dreams was to [...] Read more »
Almost 1 in 5 Small U.S. Businesses Owned By Immigrants
Immigrants own almost one of every five of the small businesses in the U.S., accounting for more than their share of the nation’s total population, according to a report by the Fiscal Policy Institute. The study released today found that immigrants own 18 percent of businesses with fewer than 100 people working for them, while [...] Read more »
Increase H-1B visa numbers for skilled workers
On April 2, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services opened applications for the coveted H-1B visas. H-1B status allows companies to sponsor immigrants with specialized skills for a set number of years. The government has received 42,000 requests so far, a number that far outpaces last year and makes it likely that the entire [...] Read more »
Immigrants experiencing quicker job growth than native-born Americans
Immigrants are experiencing a faster rate of job growth than native-born Americans in the economic recovery, data show. ?Georgia Senator Charlie Bethel “It seems that the rate of unemployment for immigrants is slightly lower than for the native group,” said Jeanne Batalova, a policy analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute, which analyzed employment [...] Read more »
Immigrants search for better life and understanding
Jorge Islas-Martinez sometimes stares at the underbelly of a passing train and wonders how he survived. “I hid underneath it,” he recalled. “Suddenly, the train started to move. The only thing I could do is hang on.” Inches off the ground, the man who now calls Whitewater home clung to the cold mass of pulsing [...] Read more »
Living the American dream: 18 sworn in as U.S. citizens
Immigration Judge John W. Davis swears in 18 candidates Friday for US. citizenship at the annual Naturalization Ceremony at Dunn IB Elementary School. In an intimate ceremony Friday at Dunn Elementary School, immigrants from 13 countries grasped the American dream. As they prepared to take the oath of allegiance and pledge themselves to the United [...] Read more »
Simplifying immigration
The U.S. immigration system is a capricious and convoluted bureaucracy. Take, for example, the rules that children and spouses of U.S. citizens must navigate to legalize their status. Currently, immigrants who qualify for a visa, and ultimately a green card, must return to their homelands to receive it. The problem is that the moment they [...] Read more »
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