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WASHINGTON In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will waive federal environmental laws to meet that goal. The two waivers, which will allow ...

Passover connects us Published: 04/01/2008 The CEO of HIAS draws on the upcoming holiday of Passover to defend the American Jewish community's support for immigration. ...

WASHINGTON, DC - April 1 - Today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that he is imposing a blanket waiver of environmental and land management laws along 470 miles of the U.S./Mexico border. and the Sierra Club have ...

The window for U.S. companies to submit their H-1B visa applications for next year opens today and ends on Monday. And Google's not very happy about the details. Neither are Microsoft and other tech companies. They want the government to increase the ...

WASHINGTON- The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of 2008, federal officials said Tuesday. Invoking the two legal ...

Says witnessed atrocities in Iraq Size: A A A Share: +Help TORONTO ? An American army deserter who says he witnessed U.S. military atrocities against civilians in Iraq hopes to persuade the courts Wednesday that Canada was wrong to deny him refugee ...

The H-1B fiasco is back! Last year, faced with 123,480 applications in two days for a pool of just 65,000 H-1B visas, the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services was to see who would get a visa and who wouldn't. With a full year to decide what to ...

The weakening of the U.S. dollar has provided a boom for three cities' economies on the U.S./Canada border, especially in tourism.For two rust-belt cities--Buffalo, N.Y., and Detroit--the massive influx of Canadian tourists have provided a boost to their ...

The mad dash has begun. Employers on Tuesday began filing H-1B visa petitions in hopes their applications are among the 85,000 that will be randomly selected by the U.S. government allowing those companies to hire foreign tech workers for fiscal 2009 ...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of 2008, federal officials said Tuesday. Invoking the two legal ...

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - The U.S government waived environmental and other regulations that it said on Tuesday threatened to delay completion of nearly 500 miles of a planned barrier fence along the border with Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary ...

WASHINGTON In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will waive federal environmental laws to meet that goal. The two waivers, which will allow ...

AUSTIN, Texas - (Business Wire) Today is the first of five busy days at the Vermont Service Center. Located in the sleepy town of Saint Albans, VT, the service center is the primary federal office for filing most new H-1B Specialty Occupation ...

The Department of Homeland Security will bypass environmental and land-management laws to build hundreds of miles of border fence between the United States and Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday. 'Criminal activity at the ...

Based on last years experience, in which the cap for H-1B visas was exceeded on the first day it began accepting applications for them, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is probably dreading tomorrows beginning of this years lottery. There will ...

New Delhi: The application process for the temporary H-1B visas is beginning on April 1. Since the visas are limited in number and would be granted through a lottery system, IT services companies are set to compete to bag them, reported The Economic ...

The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials said Tuesday. Invoking the two legal ...

To his right stands a steel wall, 20 feet high and reinforced by cement-filled steel piping. To his left another tall fence of steel mesh. Ten yards beyond, a shorter cyclone fence is topped with jagged concertina wire. Visible to the north, through the ...

WASHINGTON: U.S. officials say the Bush administration will bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to complete 670 miles (1,050 kilometers) of fence along the U.S. border with Mexico by the end of this year. The legal waivers ? which ...

WASHINGTON - Federal officials say the Bush administration will bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to complete 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year.The legal waivers -- which Congress authorized -- ...