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The Bush administration is bulldozing environmental laws to build a controversial fence designed to block illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border. To force through its construction, the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, waived ...

WASHINGTON: With US immigration authorities getting enough applications for H1-B visas coveted by Indian IT professionals within a week, a random lottery will pick the 65,000 lucky winners for 2009. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ...

BOULDER, Colo. - (Business Wire) American Craft Beer Week (May 12-18), which is celebrated annually, highlights the industry and culture of craft beer. This year, breweries and beer makers will also recognize their collective charitable contributions. ...

petitions in hopes that the U.S. government will approve their applications to hire foreign tech workers in fiscal 2009. analyzed the list of companies that had their H-1B visa applications approved last year and the number of approvals they got. Among ...

The Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee offered a scathing report Tuesday on the now-infamous Halloween party at Immigration and Customs Enforcement last fall that stirred controversy over race issues at the agency. The report, entitled ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday said it received more than enough H-1B visa petitions to meet the annual cap of 85,000 for fiscal 2009 beginning Oct. 1. The cap includes 65,000 general H-1B visas and 20,000 H-1B visa exemptions for ...

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Washington, April 9: The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has said that it has received enough H-1B visa applications, for high-tech professionals and highly in demand among Indians, to meet the congressionally mandated cap for fiscal ...

This month, President Bush will host the leaders of Canada and Mexico to advance the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a project Lou Dobbs has predicted will 'end the United States as we know it.' Lou sounds downright blas, though, compared to ...

As the debate continues over foreign-born students educated in America taking their skills to other countries, the US continues to limit the number of non-citizen students working here to a number that can be met in under one week's time. Last Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON: With US immigration authorities getting enough applications for H1-B visas coveted by Indian IT professionals within a week, a random lottery will pick the 65,000 lucky winners for 2009. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ...

WASHINGTON: With US immigration authorities getting enough applications for H1-B visas coveted by Indian IT professionals within a week, a random lottery will pick the 65,000 lucky winners for 2009. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Rafael Guzman-Mateo, Ricardo Dominguez and Luis Reyes were among a group that committed an armed assault and robbery in Hazleton last year. Last month, a Luzerne County judge ruled that the three could remain free on probation as long ...

Federal immigration officials said they arrested 59 foreign-born workers in a raid yesterday at the Lansdowne Resort in Loudoun County. The officials said the detainees, all from Latin America, were suspected of having used fraudulent or stolen documents ...

WASHINGTON: With outsourcing becoming an election issue, two US senators have questioned 25 top H1-B visa users, including nine Indian firms, about their recruitment process for professional workers, a majority of whom come from India. The nine Indian ...

US technology and other companies flooded the government last week with an estimated 200 000 visa applications for highly skilled foreign workers in what has become an annual lottery for just 65 000 visas. The competition is for so-called H-1B visas, ...

An anti-illegal immigration group issued a call to arms Tuesday against a prominent Swedish vodka brand. Americans for Legal Immigration PAC President William Gheen is in a tizzy over an Absolut vodka advertisement that ran recently in Mexico. While it ...

The U.S. government said today that it has received more than enough petitions for H-1B visas to meet the annual cap for the 2009 federal fiscal year, requiring it to again issue the available visas through a lottery. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the cap on H-1B immigrant worker visas for the 2009 fiscal year, just a week after the agency opened the application period. USCIS announced Tuesday that it reached the H-1B cap for the ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the cap on H-1B immigrant worker visas for the 2009 fiscal year, just a week after the agency opened the application period. USCIS announced Tuesday that it reached the H-1B cap for the ...