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DHS Proposes Certain Regulatory Immigration Reforms

On January 31, 2012, DHS announced a series of regulatory immigration reforms with a view toward attracting and retaining highly skilled immigrants. Although President Obama supports more comprehensive US immigration reform, including creation of a Startup Visa category, strengthening the H-1B visa program, and providing a Green Card to certain graduates of programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), such reform is currently a long-term goal. However, regulatory reforms are measures that agencies such as DHS can take on their own initiative. For this reason, these are shorter-term goals that may be implemented as soon as the rulemaking process for each is complete. The proposed DHS regulatory reforms are listed below. (more…)

USCIS Initiatives Promote Start-Ups, Job Creation

On August 2, 2011, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas outlined a series of policy, operational, and outreach efforts to promote start-ups. They hope this initiative will fuel the US economy and stimulate investment in the US by attracting foreign entrepreneurial talent of exceptional ability or talent who otherwise can create US jobs, form startup companies in the US, and invest capital in US areas of high unemployment. (more…)