Written by Foreign nationals living in the United States are subject to federal income tax laws. Permanent residents, even those residing outside the U.S., are also responsible for filing federal income tax returns each year. The Internal Revenue Service publishes several helpful guides each year for employers and foreign nationals: U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens (Publication 519) [...]
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H-1B Filing Season
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced it continues to accept H-1B nonimmigrant petitions that are subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2012 cap. The agency began accepting these petitions on April 1, 2011. USCIS is monitoring the number of petitions received that count toward the congressionally mandated annual H-1B cap of 65,000 and [...]
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Through the H-1B program, U.S. employers are able to hire, on a temporary basis, highly educated foreign professionals for “specialty occupations”—jobs that require at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in the field of specialty. Examples include doctors, engineers, teachers and researchers in a wide variety of fields, accountants, medical personnel, and computer scientists. [...]
READ MORE »Status Extensions
What is my status while an extension application is pending? Foreign nationals stay busy tracking numerous expiration dates related to their ability to live and work in the United States. Consider the burden of ensuring passports are kept current, that foreign travel is completed before the visa issued by a consular post expires, and that [...]
READ MORE »Immigration Basics: Permanent Work
The U.S. labor market has been struggling through a devastating economic downturn, but there is still demand for highly skilled, talented individuals to fill key positions. One of the surest ways to stop the migration of job opportunities overseas is to ensure we can attract the best and brightest individuals from around the world. Read [...]
READ MORE »Christianity and Immigration
Our public debate on immigration is more about who we are as individuals than it is about who belongs in the United States. Name-calling, protesting, and demonizing are not exclusive to either side of the debate. Where do you stand as an individual? What principles guide your view on how our nation should resolve the [...]
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The declaration of five principles adopted by community leaders in Utah yesterday is a clear model of how each state should approach the growing debate on immigration. Utah’s staunch conservative political arena has not been immune to the growing swell of anger over enforcement of immigration laws that has been fueled by those who would [...]
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