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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that, as of November 22, 2011, it had received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 for Fiscal Year 2012 cap-subject H-1B visas. This service is completely ...

The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is at the center of controversy. Last week, NATO forces on the Afghan side fired across at what they thought were insurgents, and killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers. Officials are investigating. E-Mail ...

LEEDS, Ala. A judge has dropped immigration and driving charges against a Japanese employee at a Honda car plant in Alabama, the second foreign auto worker who had been charged under a new state law against illegal immigration. The worker, whose name ...

On his Fox Business show, Eric Bolling claimed that "President Obama has cut spending on the border in half." In reality, the Customs and Border Patrol budget has increased under Obama, the number of Border Patrol personnel has increased, and spending on ...

One week ago today, I arose before dawn and went to buy coffee and a newspaper at a southwest Florida 7-Eleven. I was the lone white guy in a convenience store jammed with Latinos wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the names of lawn services whose trucks ...

02/12/2011 All properly completed FY 2012 H-1B cap petitions received on or before November 22, 2011 will be processed to completion. USCIS has confirmed that it will not conduct an H-1B cap lottery for FY 2012. All properly completed H-1B cap petitions ...

Instead of getting help, Mendoza got taken when the man turned out to be a scam artist who pocketed nearly $1,000 of her money in 1999 and never submitted a single document. Now the 48-year-old mother of three is at risk of being deported. "I feel bad ...

A US federal jury has convicted a Ghanaian woman to a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison after she was found using a fake identity to get US citizenship. Lady Jacqueline Locotin, also known as Joyce Amene Obese, a native of Ghana, was convicted in ...

A judge has dropped immigration and driving charges against a Japanese employee at a Honda car plant in Alabama, the second foreign auto worker who had been charged under a new state law against illegal immigration. The worker, whose name wasn't ...

BEIJING - Chinese citizens applying for US visas will face shorter wait times in the future as the US embassy vowed to speed up the visa application process. The pledge comes amid an online campaign to stop the use of a call center which charges premium ...