Immigration reform needed to solve caregiver shortage: Brookings
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 09, 2024
Immigration reform is necessary to expand the availability of caregivers, according to experts at the Brookings Institution.
Business briefs, April 5
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 05, 2024
Occupancy closes in on pre-pandemic levels with 11th consecutive quarterly increase: NIC … Providers turn to a variety of sources when setting executive incentives: Ziegler … US Citizenship and Immigration...
Business briefs, March 28
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 28, 2024
How’s Mom, DiningRD partner … Bill would change CBO requirements for reporting financial health of Social Security … Fixing immigration system only 1 solution to workforce crisis: expert …...
USCIS increases immigration and naturalization fees for first time in 7 years
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 01, 2024
Employers will pay higher fees to submit petitions for workers and to sponsor employees for permanent residence under a final rule published Tuesday by US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Cap reached for H-2B visas as new tools are planned for H-1B visas
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 17, 2024
US Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap for the additional 20,716 visas made available for returning workers for the first half of...
Immigration fee final ruling expected by April
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 21, 2023
A final rule is expected in March or April about a proposal by the US Citizens and Immigration Services to increase the H-1B cap registration fee from $10 to $215, after a year-long delay.
Avoid ‘elephant in the room,” be direct with lenders about staffing challenges, expert says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 15, 2023
Staffing issues are a part of doing business in long-term care these days. Cambridge Realty Capital Managing Director Anthony Marino advises providers to avoid the “elephant in the room” and to be...