Yes, hurry up Congress and pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) so we can put all those under-employed immigration lawyers back to work. Oh brother!
From Immigration Daily:
The economic downturn has hit immigration lawyers across the country badly. One of the indications of the depressed conditions for immigration attorneys is the state of this year’s H-1B quota. We discuss our quota forecast below and then make general observations about the immigration law business today.
By the way the H-1B visas are the ones that bring educated immigrants into the country to compete with your recently graduated college student—the one that just cost you a small fortune to educate and who is back in the basement unemployed.
Read on and weep for those immigration lawyers. But there is hope. Comprehensive Immigration Reform should bring business back and remember Pelosi and Obama are fighting the good fight to keep lawyers in work.
It is entirely possible that the dim economic conditions may continue for many more months, until CIR, or economic recovery, whichever comes earlier. CIR, when it comes, is likely to change the fundamental shape of the immigration law field….
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Recent statements by President Obama, Rep. Pelosi and Sen. Reid extolling immigration and decrying the view that immigration is primarily about enforcement could not have come at a better time. CIR cannot come fast enough.
Was it only last summer I told you that the immigration law field was booming? My, my how times have changed!