Julia Preston New York Times

When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help U.S. companies grow, creating jobs to expand the economy.

Obama administration officials announced on Friday that they will propose a fix to a notorious snag in immigration law that will spare hundreds of thousands of American citizens from prolonged separations from immigrant spouses and children.

The bill eliminates limits on the number of green cards based on employment that is available annually to each country.

A giant Indian outsourcing company with thousands of employees in the United States is facing an expanding federal investigation prompted by claims from an American whistle-blower that it misused short-term visitors' visas to bring in low-cost workers from India.Accusations that the company, Infosys Technologies, repeatedly violated the terms of bu...

At a breakfast on Thursday in Washington, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, tried to tamp down a controversy that started when Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, questioned the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which grants the right to citizenship to anyone born in the United States. "I am not aware of anybo...

When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help U.S. companies grow, creating jobs to expand the economy.

Obama administration officials announced on Friday that they will propose a fix to a notorious snag in immigration law that will spare hundreds of thousands of American citizens from prolonged separations from immigrant spouses and children.

The bill eliminates limits on the number of green cards based on employment that is available annually to each country.

A giant Indian outsourcing company with thousands of employees in the United States is facing an expanding federal investigation prompted by claims from an American whistle-blower that it misused short-term visitors' visas to bring in low-cost workers from India.Accusations that the company, Infosys Technologies, repeatedly violated the terms of bu...

At a breakfast on Thursday in Washington, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, tried to tamp down a controversy that started when Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, questioned the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which grants the right to citizenship to anyone born in the United States. "I am not aware of anybo...