Every fiscal year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allocates up to 85,000 visas for the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program to temporarily fill specialty occupations in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields and other…
H-1b visas
State-controlled propaganda outlets from China are exploiting a U.S. visa program to embed reporters, editors and producers in America, according to Axios News. Ironically, China is tapping H-1B “skilled” visas, which are intended to bolster U.S. compe…
A California company was charged last month in a multimillion-dollar visa fraud and money-laundering scheme that filled U.S. tech jobs with foreign workers. The case was the latest in an ongoing string of immigration scams involving H-1B “skilled” visa…
Eliminating virtually all immigration enforcement is not the only “accomplishment” the Biden administration has achieved in its first year in office. While illegal migrants were streaming across our borders at a record clip over the past 12 months, the…
Microsoft settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding claims that the company discriminated against non-citizens during its hiring practices. The Justice Department claimed that Microsoft “discriminated against non-U.S. citizens based on the…
The Department of Homeland Security is conducting a third lottery for H-1B visas this year after U.S.-based Indian managers allegedly sold multiple tickets to their countrymen. A lawsuit charges that companies have swamped the system with fraudulent vi…
If you ask the average American – regardless of political views – whether the United States should be prioritizing Big Tech and its foreign workers at a time when 11 million Americans are unemployed, the reactions would most likely be a mix of bewild…
Employing the legislative legerdemain of “unanimous consent” to dispense with floor hearings or debate, the U.S. Senate quickly passed an amended version of the “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act” last week. The action, conducted in a virtually …
As predictably as the sun rises and sets each day, efforts to curb ongoing abuses present of America’s immigration laws are met almost immediately with litigation. Whether the plaintiffs are individuals, vested anti-enforcement interests or deep-pocket…
The Trump administration recently took decisive action to reform the controversial H-1B guestworker program at a critical time. The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a rule changing the way that the department sets wage levels for H-1B workers, who for …