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International Education in Louisiana in 2024

Jan 22, 2025

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One area of immigration that the incoming president didn't address in his executive orders was education. That's good because international students are good for the economy.  In November, ...

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Refuting H-1B Visa Misconceptions

Jan 14, 2025

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Let’s clean up some misconceptions about the H-1B visa. Recently, the visa “people who wish to perform services in a specialty occupation, services of exceptional merit and ability” according to USC...

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It's Time to Make Plans, Not Panic

Dec 27, 2024

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It’s useful to remember that the incoming president says many things. He doesn’t have any actual power until he is inaugurated, and then he will encounter the machine that is the government. It slowed...

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The Time to Act is Now

Nov 11, 2024

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[Updated] Short answer: act now. The incoming president campaigned on a hard line approach to immigration, and while some of his more draconian proposals sound so cataclysmic that it’s hard to belie...

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Diversity Visa Lottery Is Open Now

Oct 2, 2024

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The annual Diversity Visa Program has opened for fiscal year 2026 and will close on November 5. Each year, the program uses a computer-based lottery system to offer 55,000 visas to applicants from cou...

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