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  • July 2, 2012

    Universities Seek US Residency for Foreign Grad Students

    WRAL
    June 29, 2012

    More than 100 university presidents nationwide have asked President Barack Obama and Congress for legislation that would allow foreign-born students to remain in the U.S.…

  • July 2, 2012

    Green Card Waits Grow Worse for Skilled Immigrants

    India West
    June 29, 2012

    Skilled foreign nationals have seen no improvement in their prospects of obtaining Green Cards and wait times will likely increase in employment-based immigration categories,…

  • July 2, 2012

    Immigrants and Small Business

    New York Times
    June 30, 2012

    Immigrants are known as entrepreneurial people, for obvious reasons: those with the ambition and energy to uproot themselves and build new lives in…

  • July 2, 2012

    Ohio’s Immigrant Workforce Lags U.S.

    Dayton Daily News
    July 1, 2012

    In the last 20 years in Ohio, the number of immigrant workers has more than doubled and the number of immigrant small business…

  • July 2, 2012

    Another Thing Immigrants Do for the Economy: Invent Cool Things

    Bloomberg BusinessWeek
    July 1, 2012

    Each year the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awards about 200,000 patents to inventors. Last year a Stanford student built a camera that lets…

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