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In the wake of a report claiming up to 20 percent of H-1B applicants may be fraudulent, the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services will look more closely at H-1B visa applications. The agency responsible for granting H-1B visa applications ...

Wasting little time after the election before jumping ship, Julie L. Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will leave the Bush administration on Nov. 15, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announcement Thursday. Myers, 39, did not ...

After witnessing history in the making with the recent result of this month?s U.S. presidential elections, I?ve been asked by people how undocumented Filipinos in the U.S. will be affected by the approach of the new administration of President-elect ...

New America Now: Stories from the Ethnic Media This week: One of the many surprises of Barack Obama's win was who voted for him. There was a dramatic shift in voter demographics in some states, including Virginia, which has been Republican for decades. ...

?In western Kenya, relatives, friends and a bull ready for slaughter were massed around the homestead of Barack Obama's late father, awaiting a hoped-for victory for their new favourite son?Leading in US opinion polls over Republican rival John ...

Synopsis IBM has won a five-year $491.1m contract from the Department of Homeland Security for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS, agency to build a system for processing applications and determining immigration benefits. ...

Islamabad: Pakistan condemned a suspected US missile strike that killed 13 people near the Afghan border and indicated that American's new general for the region is pressing on with attacks on Taliban and Al Qaida targets in Pakistani territory. A surge ...

The Bush administration has launched a major overhaul of the nation's immigration services agency, selecting an industry consortium led by IBM to reinvent how the government handles about 7 million applications each year for visas, citizenship and ...

on both sides of the US border near Juarez City, in memory of the 337 illegal immigrants known to have died this year in their attempt to cross the border into the United States. The majority of these immigrants lost their lives in the desert, dying of ...

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Immigration officials deported almost 350,000 foreign nationals in the past year in an effort to lower the number of illegal migrants in the U.S. El Nuevo Herald U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported a record number of undocumented immigrants ...

IBM wins contract to help Bush administration in the digitalization mission Email ThisPrint This Comments RSS WASHINGTON: The Bush administration has launched a major overhaul of the nation's immigration services agency, selecting an industry ...

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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey should not fear that U.S. President-elect will recognize the Armenian Genocide, a Turkish expert said. What needs to be done is further improving the relations with Yerevan and marginalizing the Armenian diaspora in the United ...

Does Obama support the H-1B visa program? Obama supports the temporary visa program but also wants it reformed. It needs reform. A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service report released in October said as many as one-in-five visa applications are ...

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ews Nov 6 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp: * Says wins contract with U.S. government immigration agency worth up to $491 million over 5 years ((Boston newsroom; tel: +1 617 856 4344)) (For more news about International Business Machines ...

*Contract worth up to $491 million over 5 years *IBM beat out Accenture, CSC in bidding process (Adds details on bid, background) BOSTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - IBM, the world's biggest technology services company, won a $491 million contract to help ...