Immigration

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...

Fitch downgrades Saint Anne’s Retirement Community’s revenue bonds to BB; outlook stable … Growing share of CNAs in nursing homes are immigrants … Pennsylvania operator must issue back pay after...

More inventory, investment needed to meet coming demand for senior living … Number of nursing home residents drops 12% despite increasing needs: KFF … OIRA codifies Labor Department interpretations...

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.

Supportive environments to increase retention, domestic and immigration policy reform, and solid data-gathering measures are among the recommendations coming out of a new report addressing the direct care...

US Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued a temporary final rule to increase the cap for H-2B nonimmigrant visas by up to 64,716 additional visas for fiscal year 2024.

DHS announces countries eligible for H-2A and H-2B visa programs … Assisted living residents, others, had $1.5 billion+ stolen in a year, DOJ says … Senators, attorneys general defend proposed staffing...

Future of senior living requires new blueprint: panel … Home care deals drop to 18 in Q3 2023, Mertz Taggart reports … Clearing backlog of green card applications could add $39 trillion to GDP over...

Congress reintroduces nursing, immigration bill … Online training program for assisted living develops out of home care program … Fitch Ratings affirms John Knox Village at BBB; outlook stable …...

CHICAGO — Three keys to solving workforce shortages in senior living and skilled nursing are changes to the country’s social safety net, reforms to immigration policies, and the use of technology,...