EB-5 US visas issued to the Chinese   The United States has exhausted its annual supply of EB-5 immigrant investor visas for the first time in the program’s history following a surge of applications from Chinese nationals. The State Department’s chief of visa control, Charles Oppenheimer, told lawyers at an industry conference earlier this week […]

By Bruce Einhorn and Olga Kharif Cuc Duong is used to being the only female engineer in the room. In 2012 the 24-year-old Vietnam native was the sole woman to complete her electronics and telecommunications engineering program at Da Nang University of Technology, alongside 23 men. But as she finished a two-year program at Portland […]

Student Visa SEVP

WASHINGTON – “SEVIS by the Numbers,” a quarterly report of international students studying in the United States, was released Tuesday by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The report is based on data from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), […]

By Cat Barton (AFP – July 19, 2014) For years Nguyen Huu Son has guided Chinese tourists around Vietnam’s popular coastal city Danang, but a bitter maritime dispute between Hanoi and Beijing means he is now out of work.Relations between the communist neighbours plunged to their lowest point in decades when Beijing moved a deep-sea […]

Written by Patrick Taurel Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the renewal process for hundreds of thousands of young noncitizens who received a grant of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Renewal of DACA ensures current DACA holders will continue to be safe from deportation for another two year period.  In addition, they […]

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary Arne Duncan today announced updated guidance to assist public elementary and secondary schools to ensure enrollment processes are consistent with the law and fulfill their obligation to provide all children –  no matter their background –  equal access to an education. In 2011, the Departments of Justice and Education […]