" Foreign-trained professionals in the United States often encounter significant obstacles on their path to professional practice, among them difficulties in demonstrating the value of their past work experience and qualifications. Many must be formally recertified...
" Few issues over the last 35 years have shaped and defined the US relationship with Mexico and, increasingly, much of Central America than migration. Thus, getting migration and the issues that fuel and surround it right is vital to the region’s long-term...
"This updated profile examines Mexican migration to the United States and Mexicans in the United States, US immigration policy affecting Mexican immigrants, Mexico's role as a transit country, remittances, government policy toward the Mexican diaspora...
"The current US legal immigration system includes few visas for low-skilled* workers — 5,000 visas for lawful permanent residence out of an estimated 140,000 employment-based green cards annually — and employers have relied heavily on an unauthorized workforce...
" US policy debates about unauthorized immigrants have tended, until recently, to focus on adults and adolescents. Yet several million children, a majority of them born in the United States, would be affected by legalization and feel the effects of current...
" The relationship between the United States, Mexico and Central America is shaped and defined in key ways by issues of migration. Thus, understanding migration and the deeper trends that fuel it is important to a more complete view of this increasingly interconnected...
"Contrary to popular belief, there is not one “line” that leads to lawful permanent residence; current immigration law provides multiple paths to permanent residency. This brief , the first in a new series of issue briefs related to the ongoing comprehensive...
"Throughout its history, MPI has placed major focus on analysis of the US immigration system and the complex demographic, economic, political, foreign policy, and other trends that affect immigration to the United States. Through its US Immigration Policy...
"The E Pluribus Unum Prizes are a national awards program that provides prizes annually to exceptional initiatives that promote immigrant integration. In 2012, the program has awarded three $50,000 prizes and one Corporate Leadership Award. Read about...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 9:30 to 11:00 AM EST If you would like to livestream the event, click below at 9:30 AM ET on March 19. No registration necessary to watch the livestream . "While the immigration reform frameworks released by a bipartisan...
"The U.S. government spends more on federal immigration enforcement than on all other principal federal criminal law enforcement agencies combined, with the nearly $18 billion spent in fiscal 2012 approximately 24 percent higher than collective spending for...
"This Spotlight examines the data on persons admitted to the United States as refugees and those granted asylum in 2011. It also provides the number of refugees and asylees who received lawful permanent resident (LPR) status in 2011." - MPI, Sept. 2012...
"Beyond imparting political and social rights, naturalization appears to confer economic gains for immigrants in the United States, with a wage premium of at least 5 percent, according to a new Migration Policy Institute study (MPI) released today." ...
"As many as 1.76 million unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children could potentially be eligible for a grant of relief from deportation, according to a Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis that takes into account the more...
The New Deferred Action Program: Strategies for Success "This event has reached capacity. Walk-in registration will not be accepted. However the livestream of the event can be viewed at : http://events.powerstream.net/002/00592/2012-MPI-PowerPlay/...