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For whatever reason, rumors are flying all over the Internet that the end of H1B and EAD employment authorization is at hand. This is complete nonsense. The purported basis for these rumors is an amendment offered in the Senate (S. Amdt. 4319) to a tax bill previously passed by the House (HR 4213). As written, this proposal would prohibit companies from filing H1B petitions if the company has laid off any employees in the last year. It would also void all existing H petitions for a company if the ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally acknowledged this week what everyone has known for the last month: CIR is dead. Sen. Reid said that he will not bring CIR up for a vote during this Congress. The good news is that this now opens the door for piecemeal immigration reform legislation. Two bills that were mentioned as likely to be brought up in the next few months are the DREAM Act and AgJobs.

The DREAM Act is a limited amnesty that will benefit children of illegals who have ...

Yesterday, Senators Schumer and Menendez released their draft outline for comprehensive immigration reform. This outline is being circulated in the Senate in the hope of attracting Republican co-sponsors. The first three parts of the outline deal with enforcement of existing laws, border security, and removal of illegal entrants and visa overstays. Indeed, the provisions dealing with legal immigration reform are quite cursory.

When a bill is drafted, it will undoubtedly have more robust ...

The President is scheduled to meet with Senators Schumer and Graham today, along with more than a dozen representatives from interested organizations. The meeting will be to discuss whether and when to bring a comprehensive immigration reform bill up for consideration in the Senate. The Wall Street Journal reported that the two senators, negotiating for their respective parties, have finally reached an agreement on a comprehensive bill. Senator Graham has said that he wants a definite commitment ...

I participated in today's teleconference hosted by the USCIS on the subject of their recent memo about H1b employer-employee relationships. At the outset, I want to acknowledge that they didn't have to host this conference. They did so because they have received so many complaints from the public. That they did host it shows that they are interested in learning more about the concerns held by the public.

I don't think that they were prepared for the buzz saw that they encountered. The ...