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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
