Friday, April 17, 2009

1/8/2009: Interview with Immigration Attorney Ann Allott


"Our legal immigration system at this moment is broken," says immigration attorney Ann Allott. The visa numbers have remained virtually the same since 1952. There are not enough visas issued every year to meet the demand for people to legally come to the U.S. For example, of the 1 million visas issued every year, 250,000 are employment-based. However, let’s say an architect is issued a work visa, his wife and children are also issued visas from the work-based pool. One step toward a meaningful solution to the inadequacies of the present system, Ann believes, would be to have a Presidentially-appointed board to determine the visa numbers on a yearly basis.

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