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@Forbes reported on immigrant entrepreneurs marking milestones and the role of foreign-born founders in U.S. business.
montrealgazette.comKam Ghaffarian rang Nasdaq’s opening bell on April 24, 2026, for the public listing of X-Energy, the small nuclear reactor manufacturer he founded in Maryland in 2009. The 68-year-old Iranian-born entrepreneur had previously taken Intuitive Machines public in 2023. Intuitive Machines landed an unmanned spacecraft on the lunar south pole in 2024.
U.S. , in 1976 and became an American citizen in 1983. His six companies employ approximately 3,500 people. “It was emotional for me,” he said of the Nasdaq ceremony.
U.S. In 2012 at age 24 and, with Haya Odeh, founded Replit in California in 2016. Replit was valued at $9 billion in March 2026. “We wanted to create Replit in Jordan and we couldn’t,” Odeh said. Masad added that America was the place to be.
U.S. in 1983. He cofounded Moderna in Massachusetts in 2010 and has been granted more than 100 patents. “Patents are the lifeblood of protecting and promoting innovation,” Afeyan said.
U.S. in 1992 to attend graduate school at Ohio State after earning a master’s degree in physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He founded Aelita Software in Columbus, Ohio, and sold it for $115 million in 2004.
He founded Veeam, which was acquired by Insight Partners for $5 billion in 2020. U.S. in 2014. U.S. Citizen in 2025 after renouncing Russian citizenship in 2024. He is investing $100 million into a VC firm that covers sales and marketing costs for 24 months for startups based in Columbus, Ohio.
U.S. Embassy helped him and his family leave Burma. U.S. Navy including two years in the Persian Gulf, won three combat medals, and is now 40 years old.
His company Havoc closed a $100 million funding round. U.S. visa eight times before approval on the ninth attempt.
In computer science and founded Perplexity AI in 2022. 1 billion as of early 2025. U.S. In 1994 to pursue a master’s degree at Stanford and holds more than 35 patents. U.S. at age 16 from Germany and earned degrees from Purdue, Stanford, and Harvard.
U.S. Nearly 60 years ago from Pakistan. U.S. in the 1960s and settled in Miami. 4 trillion.
U.S. are now citizens. U.S. citizens increased by 16 from the previous year and is 53% higher than in 2022.
U.S. residents were born in Mexico as of 2024. U.S. population, were born abroad. Since 1820, approximately 90 million people have immigrated to the United States. U.S. economic growth would have been 15 percentage points lower between 1990 and 2016 without migration, according to Citi Research.
U.S. 5 trillion in real 2024 dollars between 1994 and 2023, according to the Cato Institute. U.S. patents, according to Deloitte Insights.
U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. Immigrants are 80% more likely to start new businesses than native-born citizens, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
U.S. 3 million people—are immigrants, according to the Immigration Research Initiative. Immigrants or their children founded 46% of America’s 500 largest corporations by revenue, according to the American Immigration Council.
U.S. fell by 20% for undergraduates and 24% for graduate degrees over the past year, according to NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
U.S. For up to 12 months after graduation, or three years with a STEM degree. 4,831 H-1B visas were issued in fiscal year 2026 to Amazon. Amazon received 13,265 H-1B visas the previous fiscal year.
U.S. Administration set a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas in September 2025. Nvidia received 1,767 H-1B visas in fiscal 2025 at a total cost of $177 million under the new fee structure. Nvidia posted a $120 billion profit in the most recent reported year.
400,000 H-1B applications were approved in 2024, according to the Pew Research Center. The refugee ceiling set by President Trump for fiscal year 2026 is 7,500. The refugee ceiling was 125,000 for each of the previous four years.
U.S. were foreign-born as of 2021, according to the American Immigration Council.
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snopes.comPresident Donald Trump spoke at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on July 3, calling communism the greatest threat to the United States. The address occurred as the country marks the 250th anniversary of independence amid heat-related disruptions to events.
nbcnews.comA Belgian diamond industry group delivered a custom gold ring featuring 321 diamonds and the numbers 45 and 47 to U.S. officials for President Trump. The gift follows the removal of U.S. tariffs on diamond imports from Antwerp.
Laura Pinho, 51, wed Salem S.E. Abu Amra in a virtual Utah ceremony. Federal officials said they will examine the case after her webinar comments on equalizing opportunities.