A bipartisan Senate immigration bill introduced on Tuesday would create two new types of visas to attract and keep immigrants skilled in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) – these are areas where U.S. skills are often at the lowest level, and the need for people with these skills is ever growing. [...]

On June 17, 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton issued a memorandum directing ICE staff to consider many of these same factors when deciding whether or not to exercise prosecutorial discretion.The new initiative involves the creation of a joint committee with the Department of Justice that will review each of the nearly [...]

*Updated May 22, 2012: Per the latest count of May 18, 2012, USCIS has received 42,000 (annual cap of 65,000) H-1B Regular Cap subject petitions and 16,000 (annual cap of 20,000) H-1B Master’s Degree Cap Exempt petitions Per the latest information from USCIS; as of April 20, 2012, the service has received a total of [...]