Synopsis
The US Department of Homeland Security has published a final rule in the Federal Register to make changes to the H-1B visa process, a move that will impact how the visa lottery is carried out in March this year.
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The US Department of Homeland Security has published a final rule in the Federal Register to make changes to the H-1B visa process, a move that will impact how the visa lottery is carried out in March this year. The rule replaces the random selection process with a wage-based selection process. However, lawyers said that President Elect Joe Biden could rescind or delay the implementation of the rule. As per the new rule, applications would be selected based on ‘the highest Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) prevailing wage level that the proffered wage equals or exceeds for the relevant Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code and area(s) of intended employment.’ The rule would be effective within 60 days of publication.
7 Jan 2021
The GOP’s failure in the two Georgia Senate races dramatically raises the likelihood that Joe Biden’s pro-migration, anti-enforcement nominee will be confirmed as head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), say activists.
President-elect Joe Biden announced in late November he would nominate Cuban-born immigrant Alejandro Mayorkas.
“His previous activities as [United States Citizenship and Immigration Services agency] USCIS director should preclude him from getting the job, but with the results in the Georgia race yesterday, it does not appear that that will be an impediment,” said Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA. Mayorkas’ activities, she said, included delivering valuable green cards to political allies and opposing enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.
DHS Releases Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Lifecycle Report
DHS Releases Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Lifecycle Report
Explaining the methodology behind some significant statistics
January 5, 2020
Andrew R. Arthur
On December 31, DHS released the Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Lifecycle Report (available from DHS here and to download from the CIS site here). Why is this significant? Because those 19 datasets combined tell a story connecting encounters and outcomes, but up until now, they have existed independent of one another, and have not been examined as a whole.
If you have never worked in the Rube Goldberg contraption that is the federal government and reviewed its various datasets, you might not appreciate that each is siloed in D.C.-speak. Simply, each dataset is a snapshot, not a movie, and only by linking all of them together can you see the whole picture.