Archive for June, 2009
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
A serious problem is looming in the U.S. and majority of Americans are ignorant about it. There is a serious shortage of nurses to staff hospitals and nursing homes and it is plaguing the U.S for more than a decade. Presently, about 100,000 positions remain unfilled and experts say, if ...
Posted in El Centro Regional Medical Center, HCL International, Hospital Adminstration, Nurses Union, Philippines Nurses, Registered Nurses, Related News, REp. Robert Wexler, Texas Hospital Association, United American Nurses, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Wexler's Bill | No Comments »
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Highlighting the importance of fixing our broken immigration system, the Center for American Progress (CAP) suggested some guidelines that are critical to successfully addressing other key issues including health care and the economy. They stress that U.S. broken immigration system undermines its core values, disserves its economic and security interests, ...
Posted in American Identity, Center for American Progess, Globalization, Immigration Reform, Ineffective Enforcment, Legal Immigration Channels and Lobor Mobility, Local Economies, Principles for Immigration Reforms, Status of the Undocumented, U.S. Economic and Security Interests, U.S. Workers Protection | No Comments »
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Amidst the growing unemployment in the United States more and more American workers are applying for farm jobs available under the H-2A program. To overcome the shortage of domestic workers, the Congress enacted H-2A program so that farmers can recruit foreign workers to do temporary or seasonal work in U.S. ...
Posted in Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Condon's Farm, Cowork Force, Craigslist, Farming Jobs in U.S., H-2A Program, Isabella Farm, Lafayette Farm, Non-Immigrant Visas | No Comments »
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Leading law faculty members of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) have authored and submitted nine recommendations on immigration agency reforms to Obama administration. The recommendations are focused only on those areas where policy changes can be implemented using Executive Orders or regulatory or rule making authority of the ...
Posted in Asylum Seekers, Comabting Human Trafficking, Criminalization of Immigrants, Federal Immigration Enforcement Inside the Border, Ideological Exclusion, Immigration Agency Reforms, Immigration Reform, Local Police Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws, McGeorge School of Law, SALT, Society of American Law Teachers, University of Tennessee College of Law, Villanova Law School, Worker Rights Issues | No Comments »
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
The once sought after H-1B category to seek foreign employees seems to have lost its sheen as its filing limps to reach the statutory limit of 65,000. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updates, as of June 19, 2009, approximately 44, 500 H-1B cap subject petitions have been ...
Posted in H-1B, H-1B Advanced Degree Exemption, H-1B Cap, H-1B Employer Exemption, H-1B Filings, Save Our Small and Seasonal Business Act of 2005, U.S. Chile and U.S. Singapore Free Trade Agreement | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) opened its doors for visitors to take a glance at its closely guarded reports and publications under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA requires agencies to make various types of records available for public inspection in electronic form and this gives ...
Posted in American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, Collective Bargaining Agreements, Compliance, COntracts, Detention Facility Review/Audits, Detention Facility Statistics, Electronic Reading Room, FOIA, ICE Audits, ICE FY Annual Reports, Intergovermental Service Agreements, Media Request | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Finally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Napolitano took the decision to bring curtains down on National Applications Office (NAO) program, after a five-month review conducted in coordination with the Department’s law enforcement, emergency management and intelligence partners. NAO was established to facilitate access to satellite imagery for homeland ...
Posted in International Association of Chiefs of Police, Major Cities Chiefs Association, NAO, National Applications Office, National Suspicious Reporting Initiative, Related News, SAR, State Homeland Security Advisors, The Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units, The Fraternal Order of Police, The Major County Sheriffs Association, The National Native American Law Enforcement Association, The National Sheriffs Association | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Echoing strong resentments, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and the American Council on International Personnel (ACIP) registered their protest with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Privacy Officer, on proposed new system of records that would allow USCIS and ICE to data mine ...
Posted in ACIP, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Chief Privacy Officer, Compliance, Compliance Tracking and Monitoring System, CTMS, Data Mine E-Verify Records, Monitoring and Complicance Branch, National Immigration Law Center, SAVE, System of Record Notice, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The United States is witnessing a rapid surge in Naturalization rates with 2.4 million immigrants becoming new citizens between 2006 and 2008. This was established by a recently released Office of Immigration Statistics Fact Sheet Trends in Naturalization Rates: 2008 Update. The Fact Sheet disseminates updated information on the cumulative ...
Posted in DHS Administrative Systems, Immigration Statistics, Naturalization, Naturalization through 2008, U.S. Residency Requirements | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a report with five recommendations to facilitate enhancement to the existing regulatory scheme for the Special Immigrant Nonminister Religious Worker Program. After examining USCIS regulations that are aimed at decreasing benefit fraud, the OIG concluded that USCIS ...
Posted in Benefit Fraud Assessment, BFA, DHS Office of Inspector General, FDNS, Fraud Detection and National Security, Fraud Reduction, Hospitality and Home Economics Manager, Internal Revenue Service, Judeo-Christian Petitioners, Non-Immigrant Visas, Special Immigrant Nonminister Religious Worker Program, Tax Exemptions | No Comments »
