This December marks the one-year anniversary of our Chatting with Charlie series! We are extremely proud of what we’ve been able to develop throughout the year and hope you continue to Journey Forward with us. WR Immigration invites you to attend this amazing webinar series with Director of Visa Consulting Charlie Oppenheim to gain insights to the immigration industry. Get a sneak peak of what’s in store for 2024 with this evaluation of the newly released January 2024 Visa Bulletin.
As a part of Black History Month, WR Immigration is releasing a series of posts dedicated to highlight some of the incredible stories of exceptional people from the annals of Black History. Many are unfamiliar with the story of Charlotte E. Ray, Esq. – the first Black woman to become an attorney in the United States. Ms. Ray was born in New York City in 1850 and was one of six children. Her father was a prominent Black abolitionist, clergyman, and journalist; her mother played the role of housewife and was devoted to the education of her children. A progressive upbringing instilled the virtues of courage, hard work, and justice in Ms. Ray, who went on to study law at Howard University, a private, historically black research university that was federally chartered during the Reconstruction Era. In 1872, nearly 50 years before women even had the right to vote in the United States, she became the nation’s first Black woman attorney. Her admission to District of Columbia’s Bar followed Arabella Mansfield, America’s first female attorney, by only three years. Ms. Ray’s childhood values guided her in the legal practice. She championed women’s rights and successfully argued a divorce plea for Martha Gadley, a victim of […]
With the reduction in available U.S. jobs due to the pandemic and a slowdown in hiring, ways to create “good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced” are a high priority, as President Joe Biden told Congress in April. It is often said that H-1B workers displace American workers and that restrictions on foreign workers create American jobs. The opposite is actually true. H-1B workers create jobs for U.S. workers and benefit the American economy, and restricting H-1B visas leads to companies offshoring jobs from the United States to other countries. It may seem a common-sense assumption that restricting and discouraging H-1B workers would necessarily lead to companies hiring American workers. But that assumption would be wrong. Consider these facts: Research shows that in many cases, multinational companies simply moved workers around or hired them at foreign affiliates overseas if they couldn’t obtain a sufficient number of H-1B workers here, rather than hiring U.S. workers instead to fill all of those positions. Foreign affiliate employment as a result of H-1B restrictions has increased in Canada, India, and China in particular, as evidenced by decisions like Microsoft’s to open an R&D affiliate in Vancouver, Canada. According to the National Foundation for American Policy […]
