The immigrant investor program, known as EB-5, is facing crisis point with lawmakers continuing to argue over changes to the program and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) making no move on regulations first proposed under Barack Obama’s administration. Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Bob Goodlatte have continued to call for the regulations to be […]

The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has made a commitment to hearing a tough new immigration bill in June, which would temporarily resolve the deferred action issue. This is according to Republican Congresswoman, Martha McSally, who helped to craft the bill. A new report from the Arizona Republic states that McSally informed voters

The House of Representatives rejected a sweeping farm bill worth $867 million on Friday after leaders in the Republican Party failed to come to terms with conservative lawmakers who wanted the bill held off until after they had been allowed to consider a tough new immigration bill. It is unclear what the future now holds

Any decision made about H-4 US visa cannot be final until after the process of rulemaking has been completed, according to a top US official. The comment came days after 130 lawmakers urged President Donald Trump to continue giving work authorization to some dependent spouses of H-1B US visa-holding non-immigrant workers. The Trump administration intends

On Thursday, the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, defied increasing criticism of his state’s sanctuary policies by signing a new bill that places strict limits on the manner in which the immigration status of an individual can be disclosed in open court. The Senate approved Bill 785 last week with bipartisan support in response to

On Thursday, the US House Appropriations Committee within the 2019 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations (CJS) Bill, approved the hiring of 100 new immigration judges. Representative, Henry Cuellar, pushed for the bill to include language for the funding to hire new judges, workspace, technology, and support staff. In a news release, Cuellar said that the new

On Tuesday, a panel of three California appeals court judges requested that the federal government give better reasons for their decision to close the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects from the threat of deportation undocumented immigrants who came to the US as minors. The 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals has

On Wednesday, Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, attempted to prevent revolts within the Republican Party as lawmakers argued over legislation that would prevent young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as minors, known as ‘Dreamers’, from deportation. Ryan used a morning news conference to tell a small number of moderate

On Tuesday, John Kasich, the Governor of Ohio, announced the creation of a new state Office of Opportunities for New Americans. It will be an information hub to aid legal immigrants to connect to jobs, education, and solutions to practical problems, such as finding a doctor in the US. Kasich says the office is a

Democrats are looking to push Congress into preventing the Trump administration from incarcerating more undocumented immigrants by placing a moratorium on the expansion or construction of immigration detention facilities. On Tuesday, Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Pramila Jayapai were expected to file bills to that effect, as well as asking for $45 million to improve

The number of audits carried out by immigration officials on businesses to prove that their employees have the legal right to work in the US has increased. This increase signals the desire of the Trump administration to move their illegal immigration crackdown into the workplace to ensure that firms reliant on immigrant labor are complying