USCIS Receives 163,000 H-1B Applications for Fiscal Year 2009 April 15 — MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on H-1B visas, Real ID regulations, proposed guest worker programs in Arizona and Colorado, and more. How are the Costs and Impacts of Migration Policies Evaluated? April 9 — The impact and costs of migration policies are often unknown. Solon Ardittis of Eurasylum and Frank Laczko of the International Organization for Migration look at the obstacles to evaluation and how governments should evaluate their migration policies.    Macedonia: At a Quiet Crossroads Spared the interethnic conflict that ripped through the Balkans in the early 1990s, Macedonia is now a candidate for EU membership. As such, Macedonia's approach to emigration, transit migration, trafficking, asylum, and ultimately immigration will receive more scrutiny in the future.

Spotlight on Temporary Admissions of Nonimmigrants to the United States March 17 — There were nearly 34 million temporary admissions to the United States in 2006, twice the number in 1990. MPI's Jeanne Batalova outlines the definition of nonimmigrants and takes a detailed look at admissions data and data limitations. North Korea January 7 — Economic, social, and political conditions have pushed North Koreans to illegally leave their country and migrate to South Korea, China, Russia, and elsewhere. MPI's Hiroyuki Tanaka examines humanitarian and economic migration flows from North Korea, and the situation of North Koreans living abroad. North Korea Resource Page. Past Week Past Month Elections Bring Policy Changes China and Africa: Stronger Economic Ties Mean More Migration South Africa: Policy in the Face of Xenophobia Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States Temporary High-Skilled Migration Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants in the United States Bush Proposes New Temporary Worker Program Chinese Immigrants in the United States Foreign-Born Wage and Salary Workers in the US Labor Force and Unions

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