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Family reunification and the immigration multiplier: U.S. immigration law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of immigrants
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 291–311.
Published: 01 August 1986
... combine longitudinal data on the 1971 cohort of legal immigrants and data from the 1970 Census Public Use Tapes. The results suggest that the actual multipliers differ importantly by visa category and that they are substantially lower than the potential multipliers and lower as well than previously...
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The New System of Mexican Migration: The Role of Entry Mode–Specific Human and Social Capital
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1071–1092.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and permanent residents. Drawing on data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican Migration Project, we specify multinomial event-history models to predict the likelihood of departure on first and later trips via four entry categories: no documents, noncompliant tourist visas, temporary...
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Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 2 Number of temporary work visas issued to Mexicans by category, 1997–2020. Source: U.S. Department of State ( 2021 ).
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The new immigrant survey pilot (NIS-P): Overview and new findings about U.S. Legal immigrants at admission
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 127–138.
Published: 01 February 2000
... available on the schooling and language skills of new immigrants and their earnings gains from immigration. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2000 2000 Purchase Power Parity Administrative Record Visa Category Permanent Residence Legal Immigrant References Borjas...
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Number of immigrants born in the former Soviet Union awarded permanent resi...
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Fig. 1 Number of immigrants born in the former Soviet Union awarded permanent residency by major visa entry category and year (in thousands), 1980–2006. Data are based on year granted permanent residency, which may not reflect actual year of entry to the United States. Some refugees initially
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Immigrants and natives in U.S. science and engineering occupations, 1994–2006
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 801–820.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., employers wishing to hire skilled foreigners have made extensive use of nonimmigrant visa categories. Of these visas, the H-1B is the only one subject to an annual cap set by Congress. With data from the Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division of the Department of State,4 Figure 1 shows the number...
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Estimates of long-term immigration to the United States: Moving US statistics toward United Nations concepts
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 613–626.
Published: 01 November 1992
...; it measures actual (or intended) migration behavior-that is, length of stay in the country of arrival (see Simmons 1987; Zlotnik 1987). INS concepts reflect the interaction of aliens with the INS administrative systems during a given period; visa category becomes the proxy for permanent settlement...
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Does Skin Tone Matter? Immigrant Mobility in the U.S. Labor Market
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 705–726.
Published: 20 March 2020
...-related surveys: (1) cross-sectionality, with a lack of pertinent information on individual immigrants’ dynamics; (2) small sample sizes, which limited the number of immigrant groups that could be analyzed; and (3) missing data on crucial variables, such as specific visa categories, in earlier surveys...
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Immigration data and national population estimates for the United States
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 262–272.
Published: 01 March 1967
... Service. The secondary categories of net arrivals of civilian citi- zens from abroad and from Puerto Rico were estimated as separate categories. The Immigration and Naturalization Service compiles data from the visa forms surrendered by aliens at the port of entry (Forms FS-510 and FS-511), from...
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Effects of U. S. immigration law on manpower characteristics of immigrants
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 179–191.
Published: 01 May 1975
... of Immigration and Naturalization . ( 1961 ). Washington, D. C. : U. S. Government Printing Office . 1972 Report of the Visa Office . ( 1973 ). Washington, D. C. : U. S. Government Printing Office . DEMOGRAPHY@ Volume 12, Number 2 May 1975 EFFECTS OF U. S. IMMIGRATION LAW ON MANPOWER CHARACTERISTICS...
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Africans in the American Labor Market
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
Published: 25 August 2015
... ( 1982 –2001); and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Yearbook of Immigration Statistics ( 2002 –2011) The number of employment-based visas quadrupled in the mid-1990s. This category includes diversity visas that go to winners of lotteries conducted in countries underrepresented in recent...
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Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 1–24.
Published: 05 December 2018
... visas. Excluding H-2A visa holders makes our analysis of temporary visa holders nongeneralizable to all temporary visa-holding farm workers but should not bias our results for other legal status categories. 4 We compared our results for health conditions for all years (2000 to 2015...
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Migrant Selection and the Health of U.S. Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 425–447.
Published: 16 March 2012
...Fig. 1 Number of immigrants born in the former Soviet Union awarded permanent residency by major visa entry category and year (in thousands), 1980–2006. Data are based on year granted permanent residency, which may not reflect actual year of entry to the United States. Some refugees initially...
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Immigration policies and trends: A comparison of Canada and the United States
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 February 1976
..., immigration is managed primarily by two governmental departments. The Visa Office, which han- dles the issuing of visas, is part of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs of the Department of State. Other matters pertaining to immigrants are handled by the Immigration and Naturalization Serv- ice...
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Effects of the immigration act of 1965 on selected population characteristics of immigrants to the United States
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Demography (1971) 8 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 1971
.... The effects that did occur were important for other rea- sons, however. (1) Changes in the prefer- ence system and labor certification re- quirements led to the slight increase in the proportion of immigrants in the professional category, many of whom benefited from the visa pool. This was especially true...
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Uncertainty About the Size of the Unauthorized Foreign-Born Population in the United States
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2315–2336.
Published: 01 December 2021
... visa categories. For example, international students (F-1 visa holders) can be identified from age of arrival to the United States, full-time school enrollment, and lack of full-time employment. H-2A workers can be identified on the basis of years in the country, country of birth (nearly all...
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The Value of an Employment-Based Green Card
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 219–237.
Published: 13 December 2011
... mobility of workers while on a temporary visa. In this article, we estimate the wage gain to employment-based immigrants from acquiring permanent U.S. residency. We use data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003) and implement a difference-in-difference propensity score matching estimator. We find...
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Coming to stay: An analysis of the U.S. Census question on immigrants’ year of arrival
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 721–738.
Published: 01 November 2004
... up in each category (compared with the likelihood of having consistent estimates of U.S. experience). We combined indicators of whether the respondent reported having overstayed a visa or having been apprehended by INS into a single indicator of prior experience as an illegal immigrant. Rather than...
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The Gravity of High-Skilled Migration Policies
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 603–630.
Published: 13 March 2017
... the conjunction of H1B and EB visas because few applications for EB visas are made by new arrivals. With a processing and wait time of several years for the EB2/3 categories (and only a very narrow band of applicability within EB1), such policies are unlikely to allow migrants to respond to immediate...
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 237–261.
Published: 01 February 2025
... visa admission categories for immigrants from the FSU and Middle East. Figures A3–A5 in the online appendix display the top sending countries within each region (FSU, Middle East, and Europe). 3 The FSU includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia...
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View articletitled, Hidden Heterogeneity: How the White Racial <span class="search-highlight">Category</span> Masks Interethnic Health Inequality
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