As many Americans are about to celebrate 4th of July, we have to remember that many others among us who truly feel American, can not legally state they are one of us. Let us hope that by the end of this year we could allow many many good people among…
The Senate has voted to approve of the Immigration Bill they have drafted and allow the House to consider its proposal by a strong vote of 68-32. With 14 Republicans voting in favor, the Democratic leadership and the bipartisan group of eight senators who drafted the original bill seemed determined…
The Senate’s immigration-reform bill this week moves into its most critical stretch, with a major border-security amendment under consideration and a final vote on the landmark legislation expected before senators leave Washington for their Fourth of July break. “It is the crucial week — the crucial week,” Sen. John McCain,…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is roiling the Senate immigration debate by offering several amendments that could give him an edge in a future Republican presidential primary. Paul, who could square off against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), one of the bill’s primary authors, in the 2016 GOP presidential primary, is taking…
The Senate pushed contentious immigration legislation over early procedural hurdles with deceptive ease on Tuesday as President Barack Obama insisted the “moment is now” to give 11 million immigrants in the United States illegally a chance at citizenship. As a full debate and suggested amendments are made to the bill,…
Introduced by Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Darrell Issa, the SKILLS Visa Act Will create a new visa program – the STEM visa program – which allocates up to 55,000 green cards to foreign students of U.S. Universities with advanced STEM degrees. Additionally, it provides up to 10,000 green cards…
The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to pass a proposal Tuesday meant to improve information-sharing on foreign students – a direct influence of last month’s bombings at the Boston Marathon – on the ongoing immigration debate on Capitol Hill. The amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill from Sen.…
This Summary will outline the key provisions of the Immigration Reform Bill “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” and will focus mainly on the third large section of the Bill, Future Immigration. This part of the Bill encompasses the provisions covering new Merit-Based Immigration System, Family-Based Immigration and…
As a lot of our readers inquired about the detailed provisions of the Immigration Reform bill, we have prepared summaries of the key provisions of the 844 page bill introduced on April 16, 2013 “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” (S. 744). We would like to remind our…
The first significant steps in the process that may lead to a comprehensive overhaul of the United States immigration system have been made by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. Senators. Some ten weeks after this group announced broad goals and an outline for compromise legislation in the U.S., they…