It was a joyful day when Kashmir Shahi's parents came to live with him in Fremont 10 years ago. The long-married couple had left Hoshiarpur, in northern India, to spend their golden years with their only son, his wife and their two grandchildren.
"We were a happy family," said Shahi, 41, a Sikh engineer who came to the United States in 1992 when he married a U.S. Read More

The great majority of immigrants to the U.S. are young and of working age. But in recent years, an increasing number of immigrants are in their 60s, 70s and older. Read More