In 1990, the Diversity Visa Lottery program began disbursing 55,000 green cards to randomized foreign nationals hailing from countries with supposedly low rates of immigration. Stipulated in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990, members of Congr…
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Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) recently introduced the Responsible Practical Training Act, a bill that aims to reform the controversial and FAIR-opposed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. A part of the larger F-1 student visa program,…
One of the many unhelpful provisions in President Joe Biden’s massive immigration package would raise the diversity visa lottery’s annual ceiling to 80,000. Tucked into just three lines on Page 217 of the 353-page bill, it opens 25,000 additional slots…
Earlier this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued new policy guidance regarding inadmissibility based on membership in a communist or other totalitarian party. The agency’s policy manual was thus updated to include a step-by-…
Amid growing concerns about espionage, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving to place time limits on foreign student and exchange visas. For the first time, F-1 student visas (more than 1 million issued in 2019) and J-1 exchange visi…
America’s cash-for-visas program known as EB-5 isn’t faring well these days. Though exempt from President Donald Trump’s COVID-related restrictions, EB-5 regional centers that collect immigrant investment money for job-creating ventures and green cards…
In 2016, an investigative series published by Reuters exposed how the systemic incompetence and individual greed were contributing to the devaluing of higher education. But even the tale of two Americans selling access to college admissions officers th…
Last week, the State Department rescinded more than 1,000 visas from Chinese nationals, acting on a proclamation issued by President Donald Trump in May that suspended programs for foreign academics with ties to the Chinese Communist Par…
In the September 2020 Visa Bulletin, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs announced the results of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, or Diversity Visa Lottery, for FY 2021. The top countries “winning the visa lottery game” this yea…
The U.S. State Department’s recent move to close the Chinese Consulate General in Houston over concerns of espionage has spurred federal lawmakers to consider new measures that would prevent the entry of known or potential national secu…