Andrew Kreighbaum is a Reporter at Bloomberg Law. He focuses on workplace immigration, social issues, and lawsuits, with a particular interest in the implications of policies under the Biden administration and their impacts in Maine. Andrew's work has been featured in Bloomberg-Quint, Bloomberg Law, and Bloomberg News.
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Andrew's focus is on legal policy regulation, government announcements, and human resources & employment. He covers a wide range of topics related to immigration, visas, labor rights, and government policies. When reaching out to Andrew with pitches or expertise in these areas, consider providing insights into recent legislative or administrative changes affecting employment law or immigration regulations in the United States.
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The Biden administration is extending removal protections and work authorization for Cameroonian nationals in the US.
By: Andrew Kreighbaum, Bruce Rolfsen
Nearly 16 months into OSHA’s heat stress emphasis program the agency has inspected about 4,700 workplaces but only issued comparatively few citations for heat-related violations. Instead, the agency has focused on educating businesses and issuing warning letters that stop short of citing employers. Meanwhile, state and local leaders make a plea to get work permits to migrants more quickly.
US employers submitted enough petitions for seasonal H-2B work visas to exhaust the cap for the first half of the 2024 fiscal year, US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Oct. 13.
A proposed H-1B rule from the Department of Homeland Security that would address fraud in the visa program’s annual lottery and implement other updates has cleared White House review.
A State Department rule to establish a domestic visa renewal pilot program is under White House review.
Private prison operator CoreCivic Inc. has agreed to provide every detained person at a Georgia immigrant detention center with a document detailing their rights as workers as part of a deal to settle a forced labor case.
A Biden administration task force aims to address illegal fees and other recruiting violations in temporary work visa programs by improving data sharing between agencies.
A Department of Homeland Security proposal aims to clamp down on abuse of the annual H-1B visa lottery by selecting registrations based on unique beneficiary, regardless of how many registrations are submitted on their behalf.
Migrants who enter the US uninvited at the nation’s southern border dominate the political debate over immigration. But there’s a fight as well over tens of thousands of people who enter the US legally every year as part of a visa program, known as H-1B, largely designed to attract guest workers with science, math and computer skills. Technology and engineering companies say they need more of those workers, but they’ve faced opposition from critics on the political right and left who say the pro
US President Donald Trump’s plans to curb immigration by reducing the inflow of undocumented foreigners and deporting those already in the country have broad public support, particularly within his Republican Party. When it comes to restricting work visas for highly-skilled foreigners, a goal Trump pursued in his first presidency from 2017 to 2021, those in his inner circle are sharply divided. And Trump himself has indicated he’s changed his view on the H-1B visa program designed to allow US co
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