As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy On this November 11th, let us not forget these words by President Kennedy as we remember our veterans, the men and women who courageously served our country. Many …
The economy was the number one issue of most Americans going to the polls in this past midterm election. In fact, a Gallup poll released on October 26, 2010 showed that the number one issue of 43% of voters was the economy. Where did illegal immigration fall? At the bottom, with 5% of voters thinking …
On September 23, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will be adjusting fees for most immigration applications. Fees were increased by a weighted average of about 10 percent.
So, all things being equal, it may be that filing a K-1 Visa for a foreign fiancé(e) will take just as long as filing an Immigrant Visa (“Green Card”) application after the couple has married.
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about immigration detention centers. Why are they largely unmonitored and why doesn’t our political democracy care enough to find out what’s going on? Oversight of immigration detention centers falls under the jurisdiction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is an …
Unmonitored Detention Centers: An Abuse of Enforcement PowerRead More »
According to a recent blog published by the Harvard Business Review, each year 90% of 8 million legal residents eligible to become US citizens choose not to do so. Why? What is holding back this significant contingent of U.S. residents from claiming the benefits of citizenship, including the right to vote, apply for a U.S. …
The economics of filing an application for U.S. citizenshipRead More »
So will 2010 be the year that this country finally sees action on comprehensive immigration reform? It is hard to believe, considering the tough economic times the U.S. has labored through in 2009, troubles that we have yet to see our way out of. And a bad economy is an unlikely harbinger of immigrant reunification movements, or so-called amnesty.
Anti-immigrant sentiment goes by a lot of names. Most broadly, people who don’t want the presence of immigrants in the U.S. are accused of “xenophobia,” which is “an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners.” On a more localized level, individuals who disapprove of immigrants on the basis that they hurt the U.S. economy are termed …
It is disheartening to see that, despite the fact that job losses have finally started to slow, the unemployment rate remains so high that the process of applying for a job is more difficult than ever. I recently read that the U.S unemployment rate reached a staggering 10.2 percent in October. And the economy isn’t …
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