Legal immigration is essential to ensuring the continued vitality of the American economy and to meeting our nation's historic commitment to family reunification. Talented immigrants have made crucial contributions to the development of next generation technologies and have founded some of the most innovative businesses in the United States. As global economic integration deepens, sustainable growth will depend in part on our continued ability to attract the best and brightest innovators.

• Doesn't America Get It? High-Skilled Talent Helps Us! from the AILA Leadership Blog

• State Department Visa Bulletin

• So Close and Yet So Far: How the 3 and 10 Year Bars Keep Families Apart a report from the Immigration Policy Center
• Employment based immigration fact sheet from the Immigration Policy Center

• AILA Resources on USCIS Proposed Stateside Processing for Unlawful Presence Waivers
• Tweak in Rule to Ease a Path to Green Card an article from The New York Times
• Entrepreneurial immigrants could mean creation of more jobs for U.S. citizens an Op-ed from the San Diego Union Tribune