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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 ...