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The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa sponsored by a US company for a foreign worker they intend to employ in “specialty occupations” which requires theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields like scientists, engineers, or computer programmers. H-1B work visas are important because they are typically the best way for a company to hire…

A controversial international matchmaking company with the aim of arranging marriages between U.S. men and Russian women, lobbied the House of Representatives to reform the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), by removing confidentiality protections for immigrant victims of abuse and forcing them to tell their alleged abusive husbands that they’re applying for protected immigrant status.…

Fox News Latino reports New York Yankee All-Star second baseman Robinson Canó has become a U.S. citizen. The Dominican Republican native enthusiastically signed documents making him an official citizen, following in the footsteps of many of his fellow Latino ballplayers. The 30-year-old first moved to the U.S. to attend middle school in New Jersey before

In 2008, FBI and immigration agents arrested Maribel Rodriguez Vasquez, a 28-year-old Guatemalan woman in Los Angeles. She with five of her relatives and three other Guatemalan nationals were charged with 50 counts, alleging that they lured at least a dozen young women, including five minors as young as 13 years old, to the United

The New York Times reports that so far this year, more than 11,000 unaccompanied minors have been placed in deportation proceedings, nearly double last year’s numbers. But with the help of immigration lawyers, some of these children were able to avoid being deported. Eduín Rodríguez, abandoned by both parents in Honduras, rode the tops of