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The U.S. Provides Employment-Based Green Cards to 140,000 People a Year, With Each Country Limited to 7,000 Visas.
The U.S. Provides Employment-Based Green Cards to 140,000 People a Year, With Each Country Limited to 7,000 Visas.;...
Like Any Immigrant Experience, We Have Had to Traverse Thousands of Miles Just for a Chance to Be Here (Ben Lumicao, Adviser on Chicago’s Commission on Human Relations)
Like Any Immigrant Experience, We Have Had to Traverse Thousands of Miles Just for a Chance to Be Here (Ben Lumicao,...
The Demand for Migratory Workers Is Essentially Two-Fold: To Be Ready to Go to Work When Needed; To Be Gone When Not Needed (Presidential Commission on Migratory Labor, 1940S)
The Demand for Migratory Workers Is Essentially Two-Fold: To Be Ready to Go to Work When Needed; To Be Gone When Not...
Going Out of Your Way to Help Your Friends: Aireale Rodgers and the New American Initiative
Aireale Rodgers: I started in high school about three years ago. I'm from Chicago from the southeast side, but I went...
How Does It Work? Immigration Attorney Amelia Wilson About Us Asylum Laws
Excerpted interview with Amelia Wilson, attorney with Davidson & Schiller, LLC, an immigration law firm in Chicago...
One-Way Ticket to Quebec
A version of this story won second prize in the 2007 Daniel Pearl Award, a competition sponsored by The Wall Street...
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