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('=UPDATE: US Clears Virgin America On Citizenship Issue,' published at 12:45 p.m. EST, misstated the year when the put option was exercised in the fifth paragraph. The correct version follows:) Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES U.S. regulators on Friday ruled that ...

(Updates with DOT comment and information from Virgin America on ownership) By Ann Keeton Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES U.S. regulators on Friday ruled that low-cost airline Virgin America meets citizenship requirements to operate as a U.S. carrier. The ...

Why should Congress enact comprehensive immigration reform in the current economy? Is legalizing undocumented immigrants really the best solution? How will legalizing undocumented immigrants affect native workers in the United States? ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has returned a group of Cuban migrants who were stopped eight miles away from the shores of Miami. ...

eWeek: According to the report, 'Claims of shortages necessitating these programs, especially in the STEM fields, have been widely disputed and are not borne out by basic economic indicators. A Congressionally-mandated study released by the National ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday urged the United States government to remove Pakistan from the list of 14 countries, whose citizens will undergo enhanced security checks at the airports across the world. Talking to the US ...

Why should Congress enact comprehensive immigration reform in the current economy? Is legalizing undocumented immigrants really the best solution? How will legalizing undocumented immigrants affect native workers in the United States? ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected U.S. missiles have killed four people in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border. The strike Friday was the sixth attack in eight days, an unusually intense bombardment. Two ...

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that as of December 21, 2009, sufficient H-1B petitions were received to reach the statutory cap for Fiscal Year 2010. ...

Three U.S. citizens arrested at the Iran-Iraq border will not be relieved soon, Iranian Parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Chairman Aladdin Burujerdi was quoted as saying by the Iranian Mehr news agency. In summer 2009, Iran ...

WASHINGTON: Contrary to India's position that it has a legitimate boundary with Afghanistan, a top US official has said both the countries do not share a common border. 'If you look at the map, Afghanistan has a lot of neighbours. I mean, bordering ...

Pakistani police said on Thursday that the Americans were carrying out suspicious activities along the border. They were driving in a car with fake license plates, police added. The five Americans were freed after the US consulate in Karachi intervened ...

Pakistani police have impounded a vehicle belonging to the US consulate in Karachi for having a false license plate in Gwadar, near the Iranian border. District police officers stopped three Americans who were travelling from Turbat to Gwadar in a Land ...

Contrary to India's position that it has a legitimate boundary with Afghanistan, a top US official has said both the countries does not share a common border. 'If you look at the map, Afghanistan has a lot of neighbours. I mean, bordering neighbors. You ...

Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger Advocates said the bill lacks the support of several senators needed for passage. They will continue lobbying through the Senates next meeting on Monday. Knowing Gov. Jon Corzine supports the bill and Gov.-elect Chris ...

She was 14 when her mother smuggled her into Los Angeles. She met her future husband, a legal resident, two years later. A Guatemalan immigrant now has legal United States residency after helping the authorities prosecute her husband for abuse. She asked ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has returned a group of Cuban migrants who were stopped eight miles away from the shores of Miami. Fifteen migrants and two smugglers were aboard the Abbey Road. The migrants were sent back last week to Bahia de Cabaas in Cuba, the ...

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawaii Increasing effort to dismantle criminal organizations SAIPAN, CNMI (Marianas Variety, Jan. 8, 2010) - ...

Washington (CNN) -- Legalization of the more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue, two policy institutes say in a joint report Thursday. The report ...

by WebMemo #2746 In 2009, 90 counties across the country became participants in the Secure Communities program. This program provides a modern means for state and local law enforcement to share information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ...