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The State Department is apologizing for a computer error that led thousands of people to believe they had been selected as finalists in a U.S. immigrant visa lottery. The selection process, involving nearly 15 million visa applicants, will be re-run. The ...

By Matthew Lee WASHINGTON -- For a few joyful days, more than 20,000 people worldwide thought they had won a chance to come and live legally in the United States. Oops, the State Department said Friday, we had computer problems and have to run the ...

The residents of the Chiricahua-Peloncillo drug and human smuggling corridor that runs from the Mexican border north through eastern Arizona and western New Mexico are circulating a petition to send to the White House in response to President Obama's ...

WASHINGTON - US OFFICIALS revealed on Friday they had cancelled an annual visa lottery for citizens of poor nations, after a computer program failed to make a random selection among some 20 million applicants. 'Regrettably, the results that were ...

WASHINGTON - President Obama assured Hispanic Christians on Thursday that he hears their pleas for immigration reform, calling it a "moral imperative" that requires action from the pews and the White House. "What I can do is sign a law," he told more ...

WASHINGTON -- For a few joyful days, more than 20,000 people around the world thought they literally had hit the lottery and won a chance to come and live legally in the United States. Oops, the State Department said Friday, May 13. There was a computer ...

Click here to view this media Republicans inside the Beltway were all bent out of shape this week over the fact that President Obama, in his speech on immigration earlier this week, called them out over their absurd gamesmanship on the issue: ...

Roughly 22,000 would-be immigrants to the U.S. have had their hopes shattered. That's because a computer glitch corrupted the State Department's annual worldwide lottery for 50,000 U.S. immigrant visas and the results will be scratched, the Obama ...

(AFP) Travel industry leaders in the United States called Thursday for an end to the burdensome visitor visa program, saying it drives tourists and their job-creating dollars to other countries. The United States imposes unnecessary barriers ...

Another sign that the campaign for 2012 is in full gear is that President Obama is once again sounding the clarion call for immigration reform. Every so many years, Democrats and the usual suspects in the Republican Party go to the greatest of ...

ATLANTA -- On the day Governor Nathan Deal signed the immigration bill into law downtown Atlanta was bustling with visitors, but opponents said that may not be the case after news spreads."We know that whenever there is something like this passed, there ...

A computer glitch at the U.S. Department of State means there's some bad news for thousands of people who thought they'd been selected in this year's green card visa lottery, which gives a select few a bump to the front of the immigration line. It turns ...

The Obama administration has made it possible for more foreign students studying in the U.S. on visas to stay and get practical training in their career fields. The administration expanded the list of science, technology, engineering and math degrees ...

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The Obama administration has made it possible for more foreign students studying in the U.S. on visas to stay and get practical training in their career fields. The administration expanded the list of science, technology, engineering and math degrees ...

ATLANTA -- A Fox 5 reporter was not allowed in to watch Governor Deal sign the immigration bill on Friday because the governor's office disagreed with the reporting of a story Thursday night.Watch the confrontation below. ...

GILA BEND, Ariz. - Two Border Patrol agents rushing to help capture some suspected illegal immigrants were killed yesterday when their SUV entered a marked railroad crossing and was struck by a train. The crash happened in a rural farming area near ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has relented on deporting a Los Angeles woman who called 911 to report that her boyfriend was beating her up. Isaura Garcia, 20, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, made the desperate call for help in February, ...

WASHINGTON - A computer glitch corrupted the State Department's annual worldwide lottery for U.S. immigrant visas and the results will be scratched, the Obama administration said Friday, disappointing tens of thousands of would-be immigrants who were ...

in Los Angeles, California. Thousands of people marched for immigration reform, among other issues. (Eric Thayer - ) Support from both a Republican and a Democratic president, from a growing electoral bloc interested in the issue and from elites in both ...