Dear Readers:

This past week, a two year project to use immigration policy to help deliberate vital health care services to one of the more impoverished sections of the US moved into an exciting new phase. The Delta Regional Authority, a commission charged with promoting economic development in an eight state region along the Mississippi River, has launched a major program to sponsor J-1 physicians to work in medically underserved areas in the region.

Along with various others, I played an advisory role to the DRA in establishing this program and I am very pleased that the program has gone from the drawing board to reality. Communities throughout the Delta region are going to benefit and the program demonstrates how government can use immigration policy to deliver tangible benefits to Americans. For more information on the DRA program, read the ABCs of Immigration article this week or visit the DRA web site at www.dra.gov.

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The firm has gotten more good press this week. Last week the National Law Journal published a story on our tenth anniversary online. This week, Lawyers Weekly, the legal profession’s other major newspaper has a nice story profiling our web success as well. The DRA also quotes me in the latest communiqué on that agency’s web site. Both articles are available on our In the News section on our web site at www.visalaw.com/news.

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Congratulations to Arda Beskardes, an attorney in our Memphis office. Arda is speaking this week at the national meeting of NAFSA – The Association for International Education in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Finally, as always, we remind readers that we're lawyers who make our living representing immigration clients and employers seeking to comply with immigration laws. We would love to discuss becoming your law firm. Just go to http://www.visalaw.com/intake.html to request an appointment or call us at 800-748-3819 or 901-682-6455.

Regards,

Greg Siskind