Category: Status & Protections
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CATO Institute reports that the US now has (full or partial) visa bans on 93 countries
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This article explains that the government’s H1B database (used to reserach and analyze the employers using H1B labor) is not longer available. The article says that DHS is working to restore the database.
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This summary (at Welcome.US) describes a recent DHS memo which says ICE will arrest refugees who have been in the U.S. longer than one year who have not applied for their green card. Typically, refugees enter the U.S. after months of thorough vetting overseas and, after one year, apply for a green card which they…
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DHS Secretary admits to having detained 261 DACA recipients and deporting 86 of those. Read here
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Temporary Visas (like H1B visas) allow for “derivative status” benefits for spouses and children under 21. These benefits are controversial. Read The Dallas Express article here
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Read the explainer from the National Immigration Forum here.
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The Dallas Express newspaper published this article with the # of H1B visas by employer.
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Read this Travel Ban Explainer by Immigration Monitor (a credible guide to global immigration). This lists countries with full and partial travel bans that affect various kinds of immigration and non-immigration visas – and the rationale for restricting travel and visas from these countries. Some exceptions make be available for some people with these reasons:…
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Here’s an AI summary of the Border Act of 2024. The Border Act of 2024 (S. 4361), negotiated by Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), was a proposed bipartisan bill that aimed to significantly reform the U.S. immigration and asylum systems. It was not enacted into law, as it failed to pass…
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A recent NPR podcast shares these statistics about U.S. doctors: So far, the U.S. government has not agreed to waive the new $100,000 application fee for new H1B visas for doctors. Listen (4 minutes) or read here.
Immigration Insight 