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If your H-1B visa petition was among the 163,000 filed earlier this month, you've got about a 50/50 shot that you're application was selected in the government's H-1B lottery the other day. Fifty-fifty odds look great if you're playing lotto. But they're ...

Federal immigration agents raided Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in five states Wednesday in a crackdown on an alleged scam to provide fake identification for illegal immigrant workers, authorities said.More than 100 people were expected to be charged in ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark ICE agents also were serving arrest warrants in New York Black would not say how many people were arrested at Pilgrim's Price or describe the nature of the investigation. 'We anticipate agents and officers will be on the premises for ...

(Reuters) - U.S. immigration agents arrested workers on Wednesday morning at five Pilgrim's Pride Corp (PPC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) chicken plants from West Virginia to Texas as part of an ongoing probe, immigration and company officials told ...

SEOUL (AP) - A former South Korean intelligence agent said Wednesday he has been granted political asylum in the United States. The decision came just days before South Korea's president is to attend his first summit with his U.S. counterpart. In his ...

DALLAS U.S. federal immigration agents raided Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in five states Wednesday in a crackdown on an alleged scam to provide fake identification for illegal immigrant workers, authorities said. More than 100 people were expected to ...

Cairo - The US military attache to Egypt visited Wednesday the Rafah border crossing point to inspect the security situation along the 14-kilometre Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Locals told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that Egyptian ...

DALLAS: Federal immigration agents raided Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in five states Wednesday in a crackdown on an alleged scam to provide fake identification for illegal immigrant workers, authorities said. More than 100 people were expected to be ...

0 The arrests related to alleged identity theft and so far no civil or criminal charges have been filed against the company, said Ray Atkinson, Pilgrim's Pride spokesman. Pilgrim Pride had been working immigration officials prior to Wednesday's action, ...

If your H-1B visa petition was among the 85,000 applications the U.S. government randomly selected yesterday for fiscal 2009, keep a close eye on your snail mail. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says it will be mailing out notices no later than ...

CofCC.org News Team A new enforcement only immigration bill, called the Save Act, could come up for a vote in the US House of Representatives. 49 Democrats and 98 Republicans have cosponsored the bill. A similar bill introduced by Tom Tancredo and Duncan ...

Benedict had broached the most sensitive issue surrounding his trip when he told reporters he felt 'deeply ashamed' by the child abuse scandal that has rocked the US Catholic church, and would 'do everything possible to heal this wound'. He also vowed to ...

PHILADELPHIA, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Americans overwhelmingly want their next President to focus more on improving their standard of living, providing universal healthcare, and stemming the outsourcing of jobs overseas than making it easier ...

VLADIVOSTOK, April 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and U.S. border guards have agreed on joint measures to counter poaching and smuggling in the northern sector of the Pacific Ocean, the Russian Far East customs authority said on Wednesday. The agreement, ...

In his 2003 application for asylum, Kim Ki-sam said he would face persecution and prosecution if he was forced to return to South Korea, and the judge agreed, said Kim's lawyer, Janet Hinshaw-Thomas. 'I have been waiting for five years,' Kim told The ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. A sheriff in northern Arkansas says federal agents have raided a poultry plant over suspected immigration violations. Independence County Sheriff Keith Bowers tells The Associated Press the raid at the Pilgrim's Pride poultry plant in ...

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NEW YORK - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) finished April 14 the random selection process of whom to issue H-1B work visas of the 2009 fiscal year, reported the World Journal. USCIS selected 85,000 applicants to give H-1B ...

Immigration agents raided a poultry plant in north Arkansas Wednesday morning and made some arrests for suspected immigration violations. Agents also were serving arrest warrants in five other states, authorities said.The raid in Arkansas was part of an ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Immigration agents raided a poultry plant in north Arkansas Wednesday morning and made some arrests for suspected immigration violations. Agents also were serving arrest warrants in five other states, authorities said. The raid in ...