Relief from deportation and green cards for those waiting in backlogs ... “Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, a former immigration lawyer, shut down the possibility of granting 8 ...

Recapturing” unused green cards from years past may be Democrats’ best chance to make immigration policy changes through reconciliation.

Earlier, Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian ... While the bill does not seek to eliminate country-caps for green cards, nor increase the annual quota of H-1B cap Disappointed by ...

Activists placed 400 green placards in front of the United States Capitol on Wednesday to dramatize their demand that lawmakers grant permanent residence to the nearly 400,000 foreign nationals now ...

If done correctly, registry could help applicants for employment-based immigrant green cards who have already entered and are living in America. “Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ...

Democrats have sent the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough an alternative immigration ... registry that is outdated but has been used as a tool to provide green cards for some undocumented ...

It would also provide green cards to other groups of immigrants ... shot down by none other than the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, a setback that likely closes the door on efforts ...

This time, the kill came from a nonpartisan, nonelected official: the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough ... that included an increase of green cards, or permanent resident cards.

Liberals are upset, but the ruling on the reconciliation bill will help the party in the short and long term. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough issued an advisory opinion Sunday ...

WASHINGTON — Recapturing unused green cards, a policy fix in the House ... received a formal review by Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, and frustrated advocates say Democrats are ...