On Friday, September 25, 2015, the U.S. Department of State released a revised October Visa Bulletin, significantly cutting back the new “filing cutoff date” for applicants in backlogged immigrant visa categories to file their Applications to Adjust Status. On Monday, September 28, 2015, a class action lawsuit was filed in […]
By Charles Foster It is no exaggeration that Chinese immigration to the US has played a significant role in our mutual history. Starting with Chinese labor coming to California to provide labor for the 1848 California Gold Rush to Chinese investors immigrating to the US today through EB-5 Regional Center […]
Share of Immigrants in U.S. Nears Highs of Early 20th Century, Report Finds
28 Sep
by Foster, on News
In the 50 years since Congress broadly reconfigured immigration to open the country to newcomers from around the world, 59 million foreign-born people have come to the United States, more than quadrupling the number of immigrants who were in the country in 1965 and bringing their share of the population […]
Everyone born in Texas has a birth record filed with the state and is a U.S. citizen. But since January 2014, three months after Ellie was born in a children’s hospital in rural Edinburg, the state of Texas has denied her mother’s request for a certified copy of her birth […]