by Nick Urick | Aug 3, 2022 | Cuba, Immigration to the US
Timeline illustrating Cuban Immigration to the US Symbols of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Havana, Cuba (Photo Credit: Adam Solow) Stories of Cuban immigration to the United States have sprawled the front pages of American newspapers for nearly 75 years. Just last... 
by Nick Urick | Jun 26, 2022 | immigration & culture, Immigration & Race, Immigration to the US
Meet Ribhia Abdelhady, my grandmother: a Palestinian-American whose migration narrative taps into the nuanced history of the Arab movement from the Middle East to the United States. On the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli military forced Abdelhady out of her... 
by Nick Urick | Jun 15, 2022 | Immigration & Race, Refugees
The United States and Europe historically favor white immigrant and refugee groups. Enshrining some coagulated, indiscriminate whiteness, the West has pushed global immigration to the nexus of racial politics. From each corner of the historically and racially... 
by Matt Hartnett | Jun 15, 2022 | visas
American businesses have struggled for years to hire qualified workers for seasonal positions, a problem that has worsened as the economy rebounds from the pandemic amid a general labor shortage. The H2B visa program, which allows the hiring of qualified foreign... 
by Salam Bustanji | Feb 20, 2022 | h-1b, Immigration News, Immigration to the US, l-1
“Cheap labor” believers often forget to acknowledge the expensive fees that go along with filing H-1B petitions, or the large number of much needed job openings in their profession. H-1B visas could become more expensive if the House reconciliation bill becomes law,...