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Immigration 20/20s

ACIP Applauds DHS & USCIS for Making E-Verify Self Check Available Nationwide!

Wed, 02/22/2012
With the patchwork of employment verification regulations that U.S. employers must comply with from state-to-state only becoming more confusing, employers have one bright spot on the horizon … 
 

Immigration 20/20: State of the Union Attendee Shows Top World Talent America Cannot Afford to Lose

Thu, 01/26/2012
U.S-educated, U.S.  Brazilian-born, Mike Krieger, who sat with the First Lady at the State of the Union address this week, is the type of top world talent that America shouldn't shut out.

As the President asserted in his address, “Let’s also remember that hundreds of thousands of talented, hardworking students in this country face another challenge: the fact that they aren’t yet American citizens. … [They came] to study business and science and engineering, but as soon as they get their degree, we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else. That doesn’t make sense.”

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Immigration 20/20: Highly Educated Foreign-born Professionals Create More American Jobs, Increase American Economic Security and Decrease Poverty!

Thu, 12/22/2011
Between 2000 and 2007, 262 additional U.S. jobs were created for every 100 foreign-born graduates with a U.S. advanced degree working in a STEM field, according to a new report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE).

Immigration 20/20: Don’t Turn Away Critical STEM Talent with Advanced Degrees from U.S. Universities!

Thu, 12/08/2011
With more foreign-born students entering to earn degrees at America’s world-class universities in these key science and engineering fields, we need an employment-based immigration system that welcomes these highly educated professionals to stay in America and help grow the U.S. economy, create jobs and innovate.

Immigration 20/20: Exhaustion of H-1B Visa Numbers Throws A Wrench in U.S. Economic Growth!

Wed, 11/30/2011
With the FY 2012 65,000 standard H-1B visa cap being hit last week and the 20,000 exemption for advanced degree holders exhausted since mid-October 2011, U.S. employers must wait another 10 months until they can hire new highly educated, foreign-born professionals who help grow the American economy and create U.S. jobs. 

Immigration 20/20: Don’t Let Innovators Drift Away!

Wed, 11/16/2011
With the U.S. economy stagnant, employers are becoming more desperate than ever for opportunities to recruit and retain the world’s best and brightest to help them innovate and bolster U.S. economic growth and job creation. A new Silicon Valley company plans to take a radical step to help them stay afloat.

Immigration 20/20: Key Skilled Workers Hard to Find, Say 50%+ of Employers

Mon, 11/14/2011
More than half (52%) of employers have trouble finding employees for specific job openings, says a new poll released last week by the Society for Human Resource Management.

The most difficult positions to fill are in high-skilled areas, including engineers and scientists, which are critical to U.S. growth, job creation and innovation.

Immigration 20/20: A Message From America’s Business Leaders: Highly Educated Immigrants Are Critical to U.S. Job Creation and Economic Growth

Wed, 10/26/2011
Ellen Kullman, Chairman, President & CEO of DuPont
“There are jobs today that are open because we don’t have the skilled workforce here. If we want to continue to create economic growth we have to fill those jobs with the best and the brightest no matter where they come from.” – October 5, 2011

Immigration 20/20 - The Wall Street Journal: "A Better Idea for Green Jobs"

Thu, 10/20/2011
“Washington has spent years trying to force-feed green jobs, to little good effect. So here's a better idea: Expand the number of green cards, as in the number of immigrant visas for foreign-born graduates of American universities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. … 
 
“The global competition for human capital is as fierce as it is for financial capital, and the U.S. can't afford to reject either one.”