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Colin Perkel, THE CANADIAN PRESS POINT EDWARD, Ont. - Canadians are well-prepared for a new rule in June requiring passports at land crossings into the United States, but Americans may not be quite so ready, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday. ...

WASHINGTON: In a blow to Indian professionals, the US on Friday announced additional measures for hiring of foreign specialists under the H-1B visa work programme making it more difficult for the companies receiving federal aid money to hire overseas ...

President Barack Obama is playing a bit of divide and conquer this week, pitting his Republican critics in Washington against GOP governors and mayors eager for the federal money that his hard-fought stimulus plan will bring. Next on the list of ...

H-1B visa application process start date just weeks away, suggest that even though the number of US citizens on unemployment benefits recently hit a new high, high-tech employers will still lineup for H-1B applications seeking to claim an H-1B worker in ...

Tags: Startups, Economy, Online, Big Tech, Politics, H-1B, India If you think the H-1B issue has been controversial in America, in India they're apoplectic. So when a delegation of Indian CEOs visited the White House yesterday to discuss economic and ...

U.S. and Mexican officials met today to report significant progress in improving the border area's environmental health at the National Coordinators' Meeting of the Border 2012 Program. Accomplishments to date include: Implementation of the first air ...

(RTTNews) - India's corporate leaders raised issue on the new H-1B norms during their maiden high-level interaction with officials of Obama Administration, reported PTI. The leaders were assured that there would not be a notable setback unless ...

Two American TV journalists and their guide were taken into custody by North Korea while shooting video near the sensitive border region between China and the isolated state, The Los Angeles Times reported. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were on assignment with ...

Washington: The US has denied it asked or advised India to pull back its troops from the India-Pakistan border recently. 'I'm not aware that there have been any conversations recently about that,' State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters on ...

Category : US (World) News Alerts by Email click here ) US World News | Home Washington - The United States has deported to Austria an accused Nazi war criminal who settled in Wisconsin following World War II, the US Justice Department announced ...

Washington, Mar 20 (UNI) The United States virtually denied a media report suggesting Washington has asked New Delhi to reduce the strength of its troops on the India-Pakistan border apparently to enable Islamabad to effectively deal with the terrorist ...

In an online Spanish language chat room, people from all over the East Coast seek tips on how to get driver's licenses in Maryland even though they don't live there. Businesses run classified ads in Spanish-language publications in Washington, D.C., ...

MILWAUKEE, March 19 -- A former Nazi concentration-camp guard was deported from Wisconsin to Austria on Thursday, despite objections from his attorney that the guard was simply present at the camp but committed no acts of persecution. Prosecutors said ...

Amid reports that the United States has asked India to pull back troops from the Pakistan border, New Delhi [Images] has said that Washington has already been told that it has not mobilised troops along the border. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon ...

Posted: March 20, 2009 12:00 am Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., says the Democratic Party is watching out for illegal aliens, not American citizens, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, condemned immigration ...

OneWorld US, Human Rights Watch, Kaiser Family Foundation WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (OneWorld.net) - Medical care in U.S. women's immigration detention centers is sorely lacking and some cases of poor or denied care have resulted in suffering and even death, ...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama renewed his campaign promise to tackle the immigration system in a meeting with Hispanic lawmakers Wednesday. 'The president made clear to us that he is a man of his word,' said Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., who ...

Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the detention of two American woman journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, by the North Korean authorities since 17 March 2009, when they were arrested by border guards near the Tumen river, which marks the ...

Reporting from Beijing At a time of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, two American TV journalists and their guide were taken into custody by North Korea while shooting video near the sensitive border region between China and the isolated ...

Banner Northrop Grumman has been awarded a US$357 million contract by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to continue providing biometric capture services in support of US citizenship applications and green card renewals. The contract is ...