Immigration Blog

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OPT: No Longer a Foreign Student Free-for-All

Topics: Optional Practical Training Program (OPT)

Unpacking 'Court Packing'

Will a 'switch in time save nine' again? And what it might mean for immigration

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Politics

New Census Bureau Data Indicates There Was a Large Increase in Out-Migration in the First Part of the Trump Administration

Topics: Current Numbers

Trump vs. Biden: Amnesty

Both favor it, neither says it, but the difference is between 1.8 million aliens or 11 million (-plus?)

Topics: Politics, Amnesty and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Border Shutdown Slows Influx of Gang Members

Topics: Gangs

DHS Announces OPT Enforcement Moves, Opening 1,100 jobs for Citizens

Topics: Optional Practical Training Program (OPT)

U.S.-Bound Yemeni Migrants and Their Smuggler Busted in Brazil

Topics: National Security

State Department (a Bit Late) Makes the Right Move on 'B-1 in Lieu of H-1B'

Topics: U.S. Department of State, H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Trump vs. Biden on Asylum

One campaign wants to expand eligibility, the other has instituted actions to plug what it deems a 'loophole'

Topics: Politics, Asylum

August Migration Numbers Continue to Show Large, if Uneven, Reductions

Topics: Covid-19 and Immigration, Current Numbers