US Immigration News

The Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS), which is the fraud unit of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has announced plans to increase further the number of site visits made to L-1 visa employers which are employers that employ overseas nationals on both L-1A managers and Executive visas and L-1B visas for specialized knowledge employees during the current fiscal year.

A report published by daily US newspaper, the New York Post, says that Trump 'loves immigrants if they're hot chicks.'' His modelling agency – Trump Model Management has according to Reuters employed 250 models on visas such as the O-1 exceptional talent visa and H-1B visa.

During an interview with the New York Post, Ivana Trump the ex-wife of frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, put forward some interesting views on US immigration, saying that the country needs immigrants because "who's going to vacuum our living rooms and clean up after us? Americans don't like to do that."

The most recent data available shows that the US, E-1 Treaty Trader visa and E-2 Treaty Investor visa bring four times more immigrants into the US than the much publicised EB-5, immigrant investor program, according to the Center for Immigration Studies [CIS] - an anti-immigration research organization. While the CiS is an anti-immigration organisation their report despite containing numerous inaccuracies is actually quite interesting.

According to data from the 2013 Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) 'Yearbook of Immigration Statistics', 680,000 US green cards were issued to immigrants from Muslim-majority nations between 2009 and 2013. Among those receiving the green cards were refugees, sparking calls from one anti-immigration US senator for a reduction in the number of green cards being granted.

For the fourth consecutive year, demand for H-1B foreign skilled worker visas has greatly exceeded the H-1B visa quota. There is now a lottery for the available visas. Having allowed H-1B visa submissions from April 1, 2016, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on 7 April 2016 that petitions received for H-1B visas had exceeded the 85,000 available.