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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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If you were born in the United States, you didn't have to do anything to become a citizen. But each year, thousands of people have to take a test to gain citizenship. Recently the exam was updated to include a more diverse group of contributors to ...

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Militants in Pakistan have killed two people they claimed were spies for the United States. An official says the bodies were dumped in a Pakistani border region at the centre of a campaign of suspected American missile strikes. ...

ICE spokeswoman Nicole Navas said 96 immigration fugitives and 15 violators were arrested during the operation, which ended Friday; 43 lived in Miami-Dade County, 23 in Broward County and the rest in Palm Beach County, Orlando and Tampa. Those arrested ...

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 ...

/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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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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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 ...

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Washington, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) Julie Myers, assistant secretary of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resigned from her post, the first of the George W. Bush administration to resign after elections, the CNN TV channel reports ...