Contents: (1) Overview; (2) Current Law and Policy; Worldwide Immigration Levels; Per-Country Ceilings; Other Permanent Immigration Categories; (3) Admissions Trends: Immigration Patterns, 1900-2008; FY 2008 Admissions; (4) Backlogs and Waiting Times: Visa Processing Dates: Family-Based Visa Priority Dates; Employment-Based Visa Retrogression; Petition Processing Backlogs; (5) Issues and Options in the 111th Congress: Effects of Current Economic Conditions on Legal Immigration; Family-Based Preferences; Permanent Partners; Point System; Immigration Commission; Interaction with Legalization Options; Lifting Per-Country Ceilings. Charts and tables.

Job creation. Job Growth. Economic recovery. These urgent issues in America and Immigration law is a tool for recovery if only Congress would create a Startup Visa.

This simple, easy-to-understand guide to one of the most complex, confusing, and misunderstood areas of U.S. law helps readers navigate the bewildering and intimidating world of U.S. visa and immigration laws. The book simplifies complex concepts, defines common terms, and provides information on avoiding missteps while meeting with a U.S. immigration inspector, at a U.S. embassy abroad, or in a filing with a governmental agency. Anyone--whether foreign visitor, human resources staff, student, or lawyer--seeking a straightforward explanation of the U.S. visa process will find this an invaluable manual.

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Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa - his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami. American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler ... a smart, exotic crime fiction offering.' - George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener'