Nationality

A person walks through a parking lot at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022.

Mass Bay Area tech layoffs thrust thousands of H-1B visa holders into frantic job hunt

Jobs

An unemployed H-1B visa holder has to find a new employer, or “sponsor,” within 60 days, or leave the country. Thousands of Bay Area tech and biotech workers have surged onto sites like LinkedIn, frantically looking for friendly faces, like 36-year-old Vidhi Agrawal of San Francisco.

woman walking through courtroom hallway

WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9 years in prison in Russia. How likely is a prisoner swap?

Justice
Animesh Namjoshi poses for a graduation photo after receiving his diploma at Seven Lakes High School

This Houston student grew up in the US. Now he may be forced to self-deport to India due to a visa backlog.

Immigration
Immigrants are sworn in as new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles, Aug. 22, 2019.

Immigration experts sound alarm over new federal office on denaturalizations

Immigration
New citizens stand during the National Anthem at a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library in Manhattan, New York, on July 3, 2018.

Under Trump, immigrants face increasingly long and complicated road to citizenship

Immigration
A close-up photo of two mothers holding their two sons.

How a US policy is tearing apart this same-sex couple and their children

Immigration

It’s one of three recent high-profile case where the US government has denied citizenship to children born overseas to a same-sex married couple because the child did not share biological ties with the US citizen parent.

Four men sit in a row in front of a green backdrop.

Brazil’s new far-right government issues decrees across sectors

Global Politics

In his inauguration address on Tuesday, Brazi’s new President Jair Bolsonaro said his election had freed Latin America’s largest nation from “socialism and political correctness.”

Young woman in plain room, dirt floor, holding birth certificate

There are about 600,000 children in Mexico who were born in the US but struggle to claim citizenship

Immigration

It’s not so simple as legal and illegal for children who want to claim their US birthright citizenship.

A woman looks at photographs on the wall.

It was once easier to go unnoticed, but some DACA recipients from Europe and Canada say they are ready to join the immigration fight

Justice

Most DACA recipients are from Mexico, but those who are not say it’s important that they speak up.

einstein note

Einstein’s handwritten secrets for a happy life auctioned for $1.56 million

Culture

A note on happy living by Einstein encourages ‘modest living’ over ‘constant unrest’ just sold for $A note on happy living by Einstein encourages ‘modest living’ over ‘constant unrest1.56 million.