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By: IANS Date: 22/12/2009 Britain and the US have officially protested changes to India's visa regime that bar tourists from returning to the country within two months of a visit, a report said on Tuesday. The new rules, which also apply to holders of ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2010. USCIS is hereby notifying ...

Without new immigrants, by the middle of the century the United States' population would begin to decline, the elderly would account for nearly 1 in 4 Americans and non-Hispanic whites would remain a majority, according to new projections by the Census ...

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More than 5,000 Mexicans have died over the last 15 years while crossing deserts, mountains, and rivers in order to reach the United States, according to a report by the National Committee on Human Rights of Mexico (CNDH). During 2007 and 2008, the ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Two Pennsylvania teenagers pleaded not guilty in federal court to a hate crime in the death of an illegal Mexican immigrant. Eighteen-year-old Brandon Piekarsky and 19-year-old Derrick Donchak were arraigned Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre ...

Veteran actress Dame Julie Andrews has revealed that shes planning to take up US citizenship. The Mary Poppins star is married to American filmmaker Blake Edwards and divides her time between houses in Los Angeles and Switzerland, reports the ...

NEW DELHI: Britain and the United States have lodged a diplomatic protest with India after the government in Delhi introduced rules barring tourists from returning to the country within two months of any visit. The new visa rules, which also apply to ...

Federal prosecutions reached a record high in the 2009 fiscal year, with the surge driven by a sharp increase in cases filed against immigration violators. The 169,612 federal prosecutions were a jump of nearly 9 percent from the previous year, according ...

protest new Indian visa rules, NRIs affected' AfricaLeader.com Tuesday 22nd December 2009 Edition 356/2009 Get Breaking International News headlines emailed to you daily. 'Britain and US protest new Indian visa rules, NRIs affected' Africa LeaderTuesday ...

Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy claimed that one of the things conservatives hate about the Senate health care bill is that it "does provide insurance for illegal aliens. Sorry, Joe Wilson." But the language of the bill ...

LONDON: Britain and the US have officially protested changes to India's visa regime that bar tourists from returning to the country within two months of a visit, a report said Tuesday. The new rules, which also apply to holders of Person of Indian Origin ...

London, Dec 22 : Britain and the US have officially protested changes to India's visa regime that bar tourists from returning to the country within two months of a visit, a report said Tuesday. The new rules, which also apply to holders of Person of ...

The star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music is married to Blake Edwards, the American film director, and divides her time between houses in Los Angeles and Switzerland. While conceding that she would love to have a third home in the UK 'if time and ...

Previous Issues Comment Enforcement Boom reports that though the administration claims that it has been focusing its enforcement efforts on employers instead of immigrants, statistics of federal criminal prosecution shows otherwise. 'The result is that ...

Desperate to save money, Arizona will transfer illegal immigrants who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes to federal custody for the last three months of their sentences, saving the state the cost of housing them. Currently, prisoners who are not ...

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Federal prosecutions reached a record high in the 2009 fiscal year, with the surge driven by a sharp increase in cases filed against immigration violators. The 169,612 federal prosecutions were a jump of nearly 9 percent from the previous year, according ...

A string of little-noticed initiatives by the Obama DHS has made significant changes to some of the most controversial enforcement policies of the past decade. ...