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In order to accommodate students who plan to study in the United States and reside in our consular district, the U.S. Embassy has reserved over 1,000 appointments in the month of August for applicants seeking an F1 or M1 visa. The next available ...

A 24-acre stretch of land in Southwest Ranches, just off of U.S. 27 bordering Pembroke Pines, may be the future home to one of the nations largest immigrant detention facilities.The proposed center will have 1,800 beds, far surpassing the Broward ...

Approximately 20,500 United States H-1B non-immigrant visa applications have been lodged as of 15 July 2011, leaving an estimated 44,500 regular H-1B visas available for Fiscal Year 2012. 10 July 2011 US skilled immigration needed for mining and tech ...

New Delhi: Annoyed with the US visa rules, CNR Rao, the Science Advisor to Prime Minister, has threatened to boycott visiting the US. Mr Rao has been affected by the US visa norms that allow a one year visa to some Indian scientists, as opposed to the ...

CHICAGO ? The spark that led Fanny Diego Alvarez to political activism ignited in Mexico as her father and uncle campaigned in a local election. During the 1989 race, both men were ambushed by rivals and assassinated. Fearing for their lives, Alvarez and ...

01:01AM Mexicans staying in Mexico good news monday A growing body of academic research and journalistic enterprise is sketching a picture of how illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States is dropping sharply. The number of undocumented ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities have deported a French lawyer representing a human rights group alleging corruption in the government's $1.2 billion purchase of submarines from French shipbuilder DCNS. The case could embarrass Prime ...

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SEATTLE WASHINGTONstate has cancelled the drivers license of a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who publicly said he is an illegal immigrant. Officials opened an investigation after Jose Antonio Vargas essay about his background was published in ...

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A new report says activists defending undocumented migrants in Mexico face spiking levels of threats and violence. A study by the Mexican Council of Bishops says there have been 15 cases of threats, intimidation or violence so far in 2011. The group ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maryland election officials said on Friday that opponents had collected enough signatures to force a state referendum on a law allowing some undocumented immigrants to pay in-state college tuition. Opponents of the Maryland law ...

Borders has announced it is in last-minute talks to transfer as many as 35 stores to Books-A-Million. Reuters file pic NEW YORK, July 23 Going-out-of-business sales began yesterday at all of Borders Group Incs 399 stores, according to a ...

Desert Center, Calif. -- U.S. Border Patrol agents from the El Centro Sector saved the lives of 9 illegal aliens yesterday afternoon after they became severely dehydrated while traveling through rough desert terrain. The incident occurred around 4:00 ...

Face to face. U.S. presidential science adviser John Holdren (left) meets with Ashwani Kumar, Indias junior science minister, during the second annual session of the India-U.S. Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi on 19 July. Credit: Government of India ...

WASHINGTON The U.S. deported nearly 393,000 people in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, half of whom were considered criminals. Of those, 27,635 had been arrested for drunken driving, more than double the 10,851 deported after drunken driving ...

Huge increases in deportations of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk helped the Obama administration set a record last year for the number of criminal immigrants forced to leave the country, ...

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- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. Hector Pena (45, of Miami), charged with the smuggling of illegal aliens into the United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Pena pled guilty on ...