Update from AILA: Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Reid filed cloture on the DREAM Act (H.R. 5281) setting the bill up for the critical cloture vote in the Senate expected for Saturday, December 18. The Senate will need 60 votes for the DREAM Act to move forward. This is the vote…
Kuwait’s Labour Ministry has submitted three proposals to the government to help put an end to the controversial sponsorship system. The proposals are based on studies and recommendations prepared by the ministry, the Arab Labour Organisation and the International Labour Organisation, a source from the ministry has said. “The ministry…
Great news to report today about private Bills. A private bill is one providing benefits to specified individuals (including corporate bodies). Individuals sometimes request relief through private law when administrative or legal remedies are exhausted, but Congress seems more often to view private legislation as appropriate in cases for which…
Client just called and asked for a change of status from B2 visitor to F1 student. I said, great we can help, but when does your status expire. He said, no worries I am good for 10 years!!! Been here for 4 only. I said: No you are not, the…
New York Mayor Bloomberg said on Friday that the economy is suffering because of Washington’s failure to change restrictive policies, he said, and talented entrepreneurs were taking their ideas to other countries that are only too happy to host them. He was right on the ball with his statements. “If…
UPDATE: Facing GOP objections, Democrats are putting aside the Dream Act. They’re short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure. Democratic officials say they’ll to move the House-passed version after the Senate acts on funding the government and extending tax cuts. Republicans have said they won’t agree to…
The House voted and passed H.R. 6497, while the Senate moves to a vote on whether to proceed to its own version of the DREAM Act, S. 3992. The senate will be a much more difficult task. The 216-198 vote, mostly on partisan lines, sends the DREAM Act to the…
Here is a quick update from the field. Processing waiver applications is the main work of the USCIS office at the consulate. Naturally, the consulate makes an initial determination of inadmissibility. If the applicant is eligible to submit a waiver, he or she is instructed to phone the Teletech Call…
A couple of years ago BusinessWeek published an article about Visas and the Challenges of graduates facing the job market. This post is a quick summary for our readers. For foreign MBAs, PHD’s and other students in the US, most commonly heard immigration term on school campuses these days is…
This great summary is provided by AILA with the guidance of Tammy Fox-Isicoff. The EB5 program is of great interest to many applicants, especially those with the means to participate. he EB-5, Green Card through investment, was created to promote investments in businesses and to create and preserve jobs in…