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  1. Immigration 20/20: ACIP’s Trusted Employer Concept Makes MPI Policy List

    Wed, 07/13/2011
    In the recently released report, “Eight Policies to Boost the Economic Contribution of Employment-based Immigration,” the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) recommended many of the smart solutions that ACIP supports for driving economic growth and competition through employment-based immigration reform, including ACIP’s long-advocated “Trusted Employer” concept, a streamlined system for more timely and predictable immigration processing.

  2. Immigration 20/20: Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Calls for Improvements Long Identified by ACIP as Critical to Efficient System

    Thu, 07/07/2011
    Improvements long identified by ACIP as necessary for efficient delivery of employment-based immigration services top the list of issues USCIS needs to address in the 2011 Annual Report of the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, which was submitted last week to Congress.

  3. Immigration 20/20: Employers Welcome Bill Creating Single, Federal Employment Eligibility Verification System

    Thu, 06/23/2011
    The latest round of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement audits serves as a reminder that American employers need one, federal, reliable electronic employment eligibility verification system so that they can hire with certainty, knowing that those they employ are in fact authorized to work in the United States.

  4. Immigration 20/20: New Report from Mayor-CEO Group Released Same Day NYC Mayor Says Broken U.S. Immigration System is ‘National Suicide’

    Wed, 06/15/2011
    NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, co-chair of the Partnership for a New American Economy, delivered a stark message today on the need for immigration reform this year.  Also highlighting the importance of welcoming foreign-born talent to America, the Partnership today released a new report, “The ‘New American’ Fortune 500."

  5. Immigration 20/20: U.S. Employers Tell Congress and Agencies: Create, Innovate and Compete

    Fri, 06/10/2011
    Immigration experts from organizations across the country spent this week urging policy makers to permanently fix this year the U.S. immigration system for highly educated professionals – and help America create, innovate and compete.

  6. Immigration 20/20: America Needs ‘Specialized Knowledge’ to Support U.S. Job Creation and Economic Growth

    Wed, 06/01/2011
    As the President said in El Paso last month, in a global marketplace, America needs “all the talent we can get,” for the benefit of all Americans. We must ensure that America’s employment-based immigration system enables the employers that will drive U.S. job creation, innovation and economic growth to ‘take root,’ as the President said, in America. One tool that is critical to U.S. employer efforts to keep the economy strong and growing is the intra-company transfer (ICT) visa that allows key employees to work in the United States for a limited period of time, encouraging international trade and foreign investment in the United States

  7. Immigration 20/20: Children of Immigrants Excel at U.S. Science Competition

    Wed, 05/25/2011
    An analysis of the finalists of the Intel Science Talent Search, previously known as the Junior Nobel Prize, further proves the importance and value of welcoming immigrants to America. The National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) study looked at the birth country of the parents of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition.

  8. Immigration 20/20: Highly Educated Foreign Nationals 'Crucial' to Economy, Says New York City Mayor

    Wed, 05/04/2011
    In a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "In the global economy, the countries that attract the world's best, brightest and hardest-working will grow and succeed. Those that refuse them entry will not. America has long understood this. We would not have become a global superpower without opening our doors to immigrants—and we cannot long remain one without continuing that practice. Smart, self-motivated immigrants spur the innovations and create the jobs our economy needs to thrive."

  9. Immigration 20/20: Without U.S. STEM Education and Employment-based Immigration Reform, America Risks Losing Innovators and its Innovative Edge

    Thu, 04/28/2011
    As the President said in his recent Facebook Town Hall meeting, the next Andy Grove, the foreign-born co-founder of Intel, needs to be in the United States. He also highlighted the need to improve U.S. math and science education so that America has the talent needed in these fields to keep our country on the cutting edge of technology and innovation – leading the world economy.