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When I blogged about the (then-pending) rush for H-1B visas in February, I mentioned a couple of proposals designed to satisfy Americas growing need for high-tech talent . One of those ideas, advocated by Cleveland immigration lawyer Richard Herman, is ...

Pope Benedict XVI was expected Wednesday to raise sensitive issues such as the Iraq war and Hispanic immigration when he meets with President George W. Bush on the second day of a US visit that began under the cloud of a clergy sex scandal. On the flight ...

in Warsaw, the nations of the world joined Poland in commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a signal event in the modern history of the Jewish people. Unwilling to buckle to their oppressors, the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto ...

Overwhelmed by a flood of citizenship applications, some immigration offices in Southern California are staying open on weekends to get though a backlog of more than 180,000 people hoping to become U.S. citizens. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...

The violence may be driving Tehran's efforts to back its own allies in Iraq. Baghdad - A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran's borders may be impelling Tehran to back its own allies in Iraq in what it regards as a proxy war with the ...

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With Robert C. Meltzer, founder and CEO of VISANOW, which has redefined the way immigration services are delivered with a process that consistently provides faster responses, allows greater access to information and saves time. Meltzer has been a member ...

The recent incident involving Cuban reggaeton star Elvis Manuel (photo at left) has drawn attention once again to the Cuban migrant smuggling issue. Elvis Manuel?s mother in Havana, Irioska Maria Nodarse, indicated in a telephone interview with The ...

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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 ...

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Dept. has issued a travel alert for Mexico because of a spike in drug-related violence in several border cities. The alert issued Monday says U.S. citizens who are visiting or live in Mexico should be on their ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 8, 2008, that the number of H-1B visa petitions received had reached the congressionally mandated cap in the general category (65,000) and under the advanced degree exemption ...

A recent Reuben Navarratte Jr. editorial says, 'Anyone who thinks there is no racism in this [immigration] debate should read my e-mail. You'd find that readers say things to me they'd probably never say to a columnist who wasn't Latino.' For the full ...

WASHINGTON Christina Lucatero Diaz, born in Mexico, wants to become an officer in the U.S. Navy.But by law, officers must be U.S. citizens, so she was ineligible -- until Monday.When she was 6, her family crossed the border in search of a better life, ...

general elections, had brought an election petition against Vaz, claiming that the Jamaican Constitution does not allow Vaz to sit in Parliament because of his status as a US citizen. Dabdoub had also asked the court to hand the seat over to him but was ...

More than 60 suspected illegal immigrants detained at the Prince William County jail have been picked up by federal immigration authorities since Friday, officials said yesterday. The transfers follow complaints by county officials that crowding at the ...

BAGHDAD A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran's borders may be impelling Tehran to back its own allies in Iraq in what it regards as a proxy war with the U.S., according to security experts and officials in the U.S., Iran and Iraq. ...

Government Minister Daryl Vaz yesterday began the process of renouncing his United States citizenship in order to contest a pending by-election in the West Portland constituency from which he was disqualified as member of parliament by the Supreme Court ...

MEXICO CITY - The State Department on Monday issued a new travel alert warning of rising violence in northern Mexico, but stopped short of suggesting that Americans avoid traveling in the border region. The alert detailed an uptick in drug-related ...

Mexican police have rescued 83 illegal migrants being transported in a hidden compartment of a truck carrying animal feed. The migrants, 76 Guatemalans, five Salvadorans and two Brazilians trying to illegally cross over into the US territory were rescued ...