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H-1B visa exemptions for foreign-born students who received advanced degrees from U.S. schools. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday said it received more than enough H-1B visa petitions to meet the annual cap of 85,000 for fiscal 2009 ...

DALLAS: Attorneys for a Pakistani imam seeking asylum in the U.S. said Tuesday they want immigration proceedings against him stopped. Safdar Razi Amir Ali, 43, appeared via videoconference before an immigration judge, who didn't rule in the case and set ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the cap on H-1B immigrant worker visas for the 2009 fiscal year, just a week after the agency opened the application period. USCIS announced Tuesday that it reached the H-1B cap for the ...

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USCIS received enough H-1B petitions to conduct random lottery for 65,000 slots and 20,000 additional master's degree applicants Share/Email Print Social Web Email Feedback Close Digg Technorati del.icio.us MIXX Slashdot Reddit Newsvine Facebook Stumble ...

Bell: Maria Crail, a 59-year-old Latina woman, was found dead inside her home at 7004 Corona Ave. at about 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 2. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene at 9:14 a.m. According to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, officers ...

Despite an over 50 per cent drop in the number of H1-B visas issued to some Indian IT firms in 2007 against 2006, US Democrat senators Richard J Durbin and Charles E Grassley have written to nine Indian companies that figure among the top 25 recipients ...

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Last week, Chertoff issued waivers suspending more than 30 laws he said could interfere with 'the expeditious construction of barriers' in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. The list included laws protecting the environment, endangered species, ...

LITTLE ROCK Arkansas State Police troopers will be trained on how to examine and detect forged identity documents carried by suspected illegal immigrants, but will not have the power to make immigration arrests, officials said Tuesday. Troopers in the ...

Washington: With outsourcing becoming an election issue, two US senators have questioned 25 top H1-B visa users, including nine Indian firms, about their recruitment process for professional workers, a majority of whom come from India. The nine Indian ...

MIAMI An Ecuadorean couple facing deportation are appealing a judge's refusal to hear their claim that they were unfairly targeted because their daughter is an immigration activist. The parents of Gabby Pacheco, 23, a Miami-Dade College student, say they ...

In a change to its regulations, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to extend F-1 student visas for non-nationals from 12 months to 29 months. The ruling extends the time period for non-immigrant students graduating with technical degrees in ...

Securing the nations borders is so important, Congress says, that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, must have the power to ignore any laws that stand in the way of building a border fence. Any laws at all. Last week, Mr. Chertoff issued ...

In a change to its regulations, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to extend F-1 student visas for non-nationals from 12 months to 29 months. The ruling extends the time period for non-immigrant students graduating with technical degrees in ...

Robert Menard (photo) will be presented the award by Rami Khouri Arab Americans award Reporters Without Borders for 'spirit of humanity' Reporters Without Borders to receive award for institutional excellence at AAIF's 10th Annual Kahlil Gibran 'Spirit ...

As the debate over Indian outsourcing firms pocketing most H-1B visas rages, their share of the temporary worker visas has actually come down by over 8,500. Leading Indian IT companies Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Satyam received fewer H-1B approvals in 2007 ...

NEW DELHI: With the exception of Infosys Technologies, there was a drop of over 50 per cent in the total number of visas bagged by Indian technology firms in 2007 compared to 2006. The number of firms in the top 10 also came down to seven from nine in ...

WASHINGTON: With outsourcing becoming an election issue, two US senators have questioned 25 top H1-B visa users, including nine Indian firms, about their recruitment process for professional workers, a majority of whom come from India. The nine Indian ...

The words came out of her young mouth as biting, harsh truths.American-born kids, the ones who are legally here, they waste it, the teenager told me. They do drugs, they drink, they don’t study. They join gangs or simply ...