The Statue of Liberty stands tall in New York Bay, a beacon to immigrants worldwide. Q. How can I be sure U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received my form N-400, Application for Naturalization? A. Mail your naturalization application Certified Mail/Return Receipt Requested. The post office will send back proof USCIS received it. Q. How much [...] Read more »
Entrepreneurs Can Help the USCIS Attract Foreign Talent
Dallas, TX – As part of its Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) initiative, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is recruiting business experts for a new tactical team to help the organization improve its immigrant entrepreneur policies and practices. President Obama wants to make it easier to start a U.S. company and attract world-class leaders to [...] Read more »
New immigration office opens in Queens
Andrea Quarantillo, the New York District Director for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, walks through a room in the agency’s new field office in Long Island City that is filled with hundreds of color-coded boxes of Queens immigrants’ files. Instead of making immigrants come to them, the feds are setting up shop in the [...] Read more »
More Green Cards, Not H-1B Visas, Is the Real Fix
U.S. News & World Report asks: “Should H-1B visas be easier to get?” It’s the wrong question. A bit of historical perspective may help. I was the chairman of the immigration subcommittee in 1990 when we defined the basic structure of the H-1B category in the Immigration Act of 1990, including the original 65,000 annual [...] Read more »
Be An Entrepreneur In Residence To Help Create A Startup Visa
As many of you know, I’ve been involved in advocating for the Startup Visa since the idea was first conceived in the fall of 2009. While it’s frustrating to me that some leaders in Congress are much more interested in trying to jam through bills, such as SOPA and PIPA, that fundamentally censor and undermine the structure of [...] Read more »
CSC U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service Contract Extended
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) awarded CSC a task order to continue to operate and maintain USCIS’ Verification Information System (VIS). The task order, which was awarded during CSC’s fiscal 2012 second quarter, has a one-year base period, a one-year option and two six-month options, bringing the estimated total three-year value to $67 million. [...] Read more »
Businesses, Academics Urge USCIS To Improve Entrepreneur Visa Adjudication
A variety of business groups and academics Nov. 17 sent a letter to the Homeland Security Department’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services suggesting steps the agency can take to improve immigration adjudications for entrepreneurs and start-up businesses. “Foreign-born entrepreneurs have been responsible for driving much of the economic growth and job creation in the United [...] Read more »
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