"We must make it easier to keep critical workers who can keep America competitive and grow our economy, but we should not do so by closing the door on family-based immigrants, " she said at a hearing earlier this month.
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There is an annual limit of 140, 000 green cards for employment-based immigrants, so the ceiling means that while immigrants from small countries like Belgium and Guinea have a good chance, the waiting list for citizens of populous countries like China and India can last for decades.
Australia, Britain and Canada are outcompeting the U.S. for skilled people by using a point system based on immigrants' education and ability to invest or start companies.
This point-based system may allow the U.S. to put legal immigrants on a path to citizenship by issuing green cards to legal immigrants based on criteria such as number of years present in the U.S., level of education, employment potential, etc.
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The authors propose closing this loophole by calculating benefits for immigrants based on their average wages while in the United States.
Only 15% are for highly skilled immigrants based on employment, and half of those go to the workers' spouses and children.
The country's historic "points system, " in which the government selected immigrants based on a set of broad skills such as education, work experience and language, has not worked very well in choosing immigrants who succeed in the job market.
Reflecting their skill and education, 27 percent of Asian immigrants from major source countries get employment based green cards (for highly skilled immigrants) compared to just 8 percent of all other immigrants.
The settlement is the first of its kind because the civil suit over illegal immigrants is based on the RICO statute.
In addition to prejudice based on ethnicity, Italian immigrants also had to face an older hostility toward their religion.
To further ensure accuracy, Census also called upon community-based organizations to translate material for immigrants, she said.
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The study, based on a telephone survey of immigrants, also demonstrates that the majority of those polled find life in the US a great deal more lucrative than the life they left behind.
Apart from the somewhat obvious argument that many immigrants would prefer place-based over work-based visas, there is an economic argument for them as well.
The DIW based its estimate on the number of immigrants arriving in the UK who had never visited or worked in Britain before, he explained.
Family preferences account for two-thirds of all legal immigrants, crowding out work-based immigration and placing increased pressure on social services.
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Since 2007, HGOco has commissioned 14 operas and two song cycles, most of them based on the stories of the city's immigrants.
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To help patients, Congress should expand the number of employment-based green cards so the wait times for skilled immigrants, including nurses, physicians, and physical therapists, can be measured in weeks or months, rather than years or decades.
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More importantly, the immigrants most tempted by such a fee-based system would be those who would garner the biggest economic benefit from migrating, such as those whose wages would increase by the largest amount.
One objection to the market-based system is the financial barriers faced by low-wage immigrants.
Many countries are tightening their immigration laws, shifting to a skills-based immigration system and setting citizenship tests for would-be immigrants.
Although Coolidge admired immigrants, he feared the establishment of national political interest groups based on ethnicity that could force new laws and government expansion at the national level.
As more immigrants invest in themselves to pursue the American dream, US-based companies are looking actively to recruit them.
The point-based system will provide a more efficient and effective avenue to allow highly-skilled immigrants to remain in the U.S. and help propel the U.S. into an innovative economy.
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The Russian immigrants are purposefully assimilating into Israeli society, says Dr Yakobson, and tradition-based behaviour is part of that assimilation.
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When boatloads of immigrants began arriving on beaches near Gibraltar in the 1990s, it installed an early-warning radar system based on one that Israel developed to stop seaborne Palestinian guerrilla raids.
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