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Between 1995 and 2005, immigrants started more than half of the new businesses in Silicon Valley. As of 2011, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were started by immigrants or their children.March 16
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Some firms are now refocusing on workers who don’t need permits, though they still use the visa program for engineers and quantitative analysts.February 23
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Similar legislation hasn’t advanced in the Senate and prospects for Congress passing the measure are in doubt as lawmakers debate more pressing immigration issues.February 13
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The strands of fiber, routers, servers and seemingly endless lines of code that compose our digital highways and hubs are quickly becoming the backbone of U.S. infrastructure -- and it too is deteriorating.February 5
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Industry groups including the Information Technology Industry Council, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and BSA-The Software Alliance have urged the government to keep the H-4 program.January 19
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The number of application challenges — officially known as “requests for evidence” or RFEs — are up 44 percent compared to last year, according to statistics from USCIS.November 8
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The U.S. government has received more than 300,000 visa petitions and extensions so far this year, compared with a total of 399,349 in all of 2016.August 2
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The White House said it plans to rescind an Obama-era program that would allow foreign entrepreneurs who launch companies in the U.S. to live in the country.July 12
