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The Return of the ASSET Bill in Colorado (Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow)
January 27th, 2012 by Amber Blasingame
Posted in: Uncategorized
Colorado State Senators Angela Giron and Michael Johnston re-introduced the Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow (ASSET) bill to the Colorado senate on January 11, 2012. The ASSET bill proposes a “standard-rate” tuition for qualifying students who received an education from Colorado public schools and have “requested documentation of, [have] applied for, or will [...]
Ingenious Plan or Sinking Ship? – The Elusive H-1B Visa.
January 20th, 2012 by Melanie Corrin
Posted in: Employer Compliance, H-1B, Immigration, Uncategorized
Even with a down economy, the need for highly educated, skilled workers remains high. Each year the Federal Government allows for only 85,000 total professional foreign workers to enter the United States as temporary workers, and each year that number is completely exhausted well before the next fiscal year begins. This is the elusive H-1B [...]
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Immigration Laws Deter Needed Workers from Entering the US to fill Blue Collar Work
January 18th, 2012 by Amber Blasingame
Posted in: Immigration, Uncategorized
Washington apple orchards reported a record growing year in 2011. Unfortunately, due to a late harvest and reduced labor force, otherwise edible fruit was left on the trees to rot. Growers explained to National Public Radio that migrants who tended the orchards during the growing months were unable to stay for the late harvest. According [...]
H-1B Cap Almost Reached
November 23rd, 2011 by Melanie Corrin
Posted in: Uncategorized
United States Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS) reported on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 that as of November 18, 2011 it has received a total of 61,800 petitions for H-1B applicants with Bachelor’s Degrees and 20,000 H-1B visa petitions for applicants with Master’s Degrees for the 2012 fiscal year; which began on October 1, 2011.
Each year [...]
Business Leaders Request More Work Visas From Congress
July 28th, 2011 by Aaron Hall
Posted in: Uncategorized
On July 26, U.S. business leaders pressed a Senate panel to reform immigration laws to allow more work visas for highly skilled workers.
NASDAQ Chief Executive Robert Greifeld said that largely due to restrictive immigration policies, each year 17,000 American-trained masters and doctoral students leave the U.S. to find work elsewhere. Mr. Greifeld indicated that job [...]
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Increase in Immigration Work Force’s Skill Level
June 10th, 2011 by Aaron Hall
Posted in: Uncategorized
A recent report by the Brookings Institutions indicates that highly skilled immigrants in the United States now outnumber lower skilled immigrants. The report shows that the shift has been in the works for at least 30 years.
According to the report, “30 percent of the country’s working-age immigrants, regardless of legal status, have at least a bachelor’s [...]
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Remembering the 1995 Government Shutdown
April 6th, 2011 by Amber Blasingame
Posted in: Immigration, Uncategorized
If Congress fails to agree on the federal budget by Friday, April 8, 2011, the government has announced a possible shutdown as of midnight Friday. This will not be the first time that the government has been shut down due to disagreements among federal offices.
In 1995, a disagreement arose between former President Bill Clinton and Congress [...]
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USCIS to Issue one Document to be Valid for Both Employment Authorization and Travel Permission
February 14th, 2011 by Melanie Corrin
Posted in: Uncategorized
The Untied States Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS) announced today in an “Interim Memo for Comment” that it will eventually begin issuing one document to cover both employment authorization and travel permission, rather than an employment authorization card and a paper advance parole document. The comment period closes on February 28, 2011 and the [...]
The House Judiciary Committee’s Immigration Panel Schedules a Hearing on E-Verify; Many Businesses Strongly Opposed
February 11th, 2011 by Koby Polaski
Posted in: E-Verify, Employer Compliance, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, State Law, Uncategorized
As reported recently in the Washington Post, nationwide implementation of E-Verify is on the agenda of several House Republicans in the first session of the 112th Congress. E-Verify is an electronic system that allows employers to run the information of potential employees through federal databases to confirm it and therefore identify people who are not legally [...]
Joseph Law Firm, P.C. Sucessfully defends Employer in Worksite Enforcement Federal Contract Debarment Case
February 9th, 2011 by Jeff Joseph
Posted in: Uncategorized
Worksite enforcement cases are clearly on the rise and the potential sanctions for employers go well beyond civil fines. Joseph Law Firm successfully defended a corporate client today after the client received a Notice of Proposed Debarment which would have prevented the client from entering federal contracts. The client had previously settled a worksite enforcement [...]
