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The government has termed as 'economically irrational' the provisions that debar US companies from hiring people holding H-1B visas if they take help under $787 billion economic bail out package, which President Barack Obama has signed into law. 'The ...

NEW YORK (NNPA) - Anytime a school is lucky enough to have such a prestigious alumnus as Colin Powell return to campus, it's a major event. Powell, whose military and governmental credentials are extraordi-nary by any standards, was at City College ...

Hiroshi Motomura. Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, (Oxford University Press, 2006). ISBN:9780195336085 Some days, when I get off the downtown trolley stop, I alight into a crowd of well-dressed, ...

A 2250-passenger survey by online travel network Where Are You Now? suggests Australia has the friendliest immigration staff, and the USA the rudest. London Heathrow airport, UK had the longest passport queues and the longest baggage carousel wait time, ...

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The United States government and the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe have presented IT and office equipment along with special software to State Border Service of Ukraine (SBSU) under the international project 'Helping to reform and ...

UBS is resolving investigations relating to its US cross-border business by entering into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a Consent Order with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ...

The protests in Ciudad Juarez blocked traffic for about two hours on Tuesday across three bridges connecting the city to El Paso, Texas. Similar protests broke out on bridges in the border cities of Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa. Demonstrators blocked city ...

What's this MIAMI (AFP) - Activists called a protest for Saturday as the United States moved closer to carrying out deportation orders for more than 3, Haitians. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Tuesday that deportation orders ...

SEATTLE - It's not exactly grass-fed beef, but U.S. authorities in Seattle say a man hid a huge stash of marijuana in a cattle trailer he tried to drive across the border from Canada. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Brown says a man was driving a ...

MANHATTAN, Kan.?Securing the borders is one way of insuring the safety of food imported from other nations, but the best way to secure the border is to focus on countries? regulatory systems and harmonize them, as reported by Newswise. Research by ...

SEC files civil suit versus UBS (NYSE: UBS), says company advised U.S. cross-border clients without registering. SEC claims UBS reaped ill-gotten gains of at least $380 million. Headlines from Bloomberg ...

UBS is resolving investigations relating to its US cross-border business by entering into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a Consent Order with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ...

Father Raymond J. De Souza, Full Comment North Dakota is a long way from Nogales; the former borders Manitoba, the latter Mexico. But Canadians should pay attention to what is going on here on America?s southern edge as a sign of future developments up ...

The $787 billion economic stimulus bill signed into law Tuesday by President Obama will make it more complicated for financial services companies and banks that received federal bailout money to hire foreign workers on H-1B visas. The new stimulus ...

UBS is resolving investigations relating to its US cross-border business by entering into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a Consent Order with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ZURICH, ...

A Redwood City man has been accused of posing as a federal agent and threatening to deport his immigrant relatives if they didn't pay him $50,000, court records show. Frank Salvador Solorza, 45, allegedly orchestrated the scheme over the phone and in ...

* US president says war against Taliban is 'still winnable' * White House says troops to be deployed ahead of Afghan elections WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has ordered an additional 17,000 US soldiers to be sent to Afghanistan, saying 'the ...

Feb 18 (Reuters) - UBS AG: * Settles US cross-border case with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ((Bangalore Equities Newsroom; +91 80 4135 5800; within U.S. +1 646 223 8780)) (For more news, please click ...

OTTAWA - Travel to the United States declined again in December, with more Canadians opting to spend their travel dollars in other countries, Statistics Canada said Thursday. In that month, Canadians took 3.2 million trips to the U.S., down 4.0% from ...