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US federal authorities have claimed to have unearthed a major H-1B visa racket with the arrest of at least 11 persons, most of them suspected to be of Indian origin. Though the officials did not reveal the citizenship of those arrested, the names ...

Federal agents on Thursday said they arrested 11 people in several states in a crackdown on H-1B visa fraud and unsealed documents that detail how the visa process was used to undercut the salaries of U.S. workers. Federal authorities allege that in some ...

A report released Oct. 8 by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) reveals that 13% of petitions filed for H-1B visas on behalf of employers are fraudulent. Another 7% contain some sort of technical violations. The study, released to members ...

After a decades-long campaign to memorialize Angel Island Ellis Island's West Coast counterpart the immigration processing center in the San Francisco Bay reopens to the public Sunday. CITY GUIDE: More to see and do in San Francisco During a dark ...

LOS ANGELES ? Several times a day, Shaukat Ali prays in the garden of his daughter's home ? for his family and his health and now, for the economy. 'There is no alternative but to ask our God,' said Ali, 70. Like many elderly immigrants, Ali dreamed ...

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edition of 'WorldTrade Interactive'. President Obama will make his first formal visit to Canada Feb. 19, and two U.S. lawmakers are asking him to restart negotiations on a shared border management [SBM] accord. Reps. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., and John ...

Alaska Airlines has reopened the debate on whether Virgin America qualifies under foreign ownership and control restrictions on US domestic carriers, by petitioning the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to conduct a public inquiry into the San ...

Shortly after the November election, a few congressional offices privately acknowledged that it would be smart for the Obama administration to try to include pro-immigration provisions in the upcoming stimulus package. Some policy staffers were reading ...

By Lucia Leal. ).- U.S. religious leaders and members of Congress on Wednesday announced a campaign supported by hundreds of religious organizations around the country to ask the new administration this year to get started on a 'humane reform' of the ...

WASHINGTON - An immigration policy group said Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Securitys immigration mission has been undermined by wasteful spending along the southern border, law enforcement efforts that focused on snaring illegal workers ...

Deloitte Consulting and the studied the issue of the Skills Gap in 2005. They concluded at that time that 90% of employers were experiencing a shortage of skilled production employees, with 18% calling that shortage severe. The study recommended a ...

One of the worst messes facing the Obama administration is the disgraceful state of the federal government's immigration detention centers. There are 350 of these centers around the country, housing almost 30,000 men, women and even children waiting for ...

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. figure skater, ethnic Armenian Pierre Balian is training for the oncoming World Figure Skating Championship due Mar. 20-25 in LA, Armenian Figure Skating Federation President Samvel Khachatryan told PanARMENIAN.Net. The issue of ...

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illegal immigrants home last year. (Common Dreams) The nondescript 737 jet taxied to the front of the runway line at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Aboard the flight, 53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico ...

The immigration agency has a chronic shortage of detention beds, and must juggle detainees among available spaces. This means that within weeks of an arrest, an immigrant may find himself transferred halfway across the country, far from family and ...

Jin Kyu at 22Jin Kyu Robertson has come a long way since she immigrated to the United States as a housemaid when she was 22. Since then, she rose to the rank of major in the U.S. army and completed a doctorate at Harvard University. Jin Robertson says ...

As if the Obama administration didn't have enough on its plate with a recession, bank troubles and any number of foreign policy crises, a non-partisan immigration think tank has offered the new president a roadmap to mend the country's dysfunctional ...

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - An American fugitive accused in a $100-million (U.S.) mortgage fraud was caught at the Canadian border after taking a taxi from Toronto with $1-million in Swiss bank certificates and $70,000 stuffed in his shoes, authorities said ...