Visas

USCIS, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, stopped taking new H-1B visa applications about a week after the application process started. (AP Photo/Department of Homeland Security)

H-1B visa cap hit in first week of application season

Anna Giaritelli · April 8, 2016 11:21 am

ICE Director Sarah R. Saldaña said the group was among the "system's most egregious violators." (AP Photo/LM Otero)

ICE nabs 1,076 foreign students in ‘egregious’ visa scam

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2016 11:31 pm

Cyberdefense experts found holes in the State Department's system that could have allowed hackers to steal, edit or falsify visa information of a half-billion records, ABC News reported. (AP Photo)

Report: Holes in State Department’s visa system

Kelly Cohen · March 31, 2016 8:21 pm

Hillary: Solution to ISIS and Brussels Attack Is Our Visa Program

Jim Swift · March 22, 2016 5:04 pm

Cruz push for doubling of immigrants raised again

Cruz push for doubling of immigrants raised again

Paul Bedard · March 22, 2016 4:36 pm

In this photo made Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015, Ailu Xu, a graduate student from China, posts a sign directing Chinese students to a new student orientation meeting at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. The U.S. Census Bureau research shows immigrants from China and India, many with student or work visas, have overtaken Mexicans as the largest groups coming into the U.S. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Labor Dept. blames Congress for immigrant worker visa delays

Sean Higgins · March 15, 2016 7:42 pm

"[T]he continuing threat of removal and other uncertainties facing undocumented individuals weaken our economy," read the brief. (AP Photo/Manu Fernadez)

Mark Zuckerberg backs Obama on amnesty

Anna Giaritelli · March 9, 2016 2:21 am

"I'm changing it and I'm softening the position because we have to have talented people in this country," Donald Trump said during the Fox News debate in Detroit. (AP Photo)

Trump: ‘I’m softening’ my policy on high-skilled foreign workers

Joel Gehrke · March 4, 2016 3:15 am

"Today's hearing is not an indictment of immigration reform, it's an indictment of doing nothing," Schumer said. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer laughs about Rubio’s Gang of Eight work

Joel Gehrke · February 25, 2016 10:21 pm

The IT industry fires more people in a year than it hires from the federally provided H-1B guest worker pool. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Senate witness: U.S. has no STEM worker shortage

Anna Giaritelli · February 25, 2016 8:36 pm

Under the new law, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson may waive restrictions on a case-by-case basis if he determines that doing so is in the national security interest of the United States. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

U.S. restricts visa-free travel from Libya, Somalia, Yemen

Susan Crabtree · February 18, 2016 4:19 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan said his top concern is improving labor force participation, which remains at the lowest rate in decades. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ryan: Let Congress ‘work its will’ on green cards

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 14, 2016 6:07 pm