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Wipro has topped the list of firms that got the coveted US visas for highly skilled professionals. Microsoft with 1,318 visas came next, with Intel (723) in third place, while Google with 211 in 25th place brought up the rear. IBM India (695), Infosys ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A new poll suggests that American Jews are more conflicted about the challenges of immigration than their communal leaders -- but that's to be expected, the Jewish leaders say. The poll, commissioned by the pro-enforcement Center for ...

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that all 65,000 H-1B cap subject visas have all been fully used up for the fiscal year of 2010. Any H-1B visa applications properly filed by 21 December 2009 will be subject to a computer ...

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Map of Arabia and North Africa with Yemen's location highlighted (Wikipedia Commons). (CNSNews.com) - The State Department has awarded 1,011 special diversity visas allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 ...

The United States has lifted a 22-year immigration ban that prevents anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country, according to the BBC. The ban was imposed at the height of the HIV global panic at the end of the 1980s. President Barack Obama, in ...

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawaii GAO to explore risks, vulnerabilities of current arrangement WELLINGTON, New Zealand (RNZI, Jan. 4, ...

lamabad, Jan. 5 (ANI): General Stanley McChrystal, the top US military commander in Afghanistan, has revealed that Pakistan and the US are planning to take joint military action against the Taliban on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border. "In fact, we are ...

A four member team from the US General Accountability Office is due in American Samoa next week to study the territorys customs and immigration systems. The team is to identify potential risks or vulnerabilities for American Samoa and the rest of the ...

security expert told Al Jazeera: 'We need to be looking at all high risk flights irrespective of where they come from or where they're going to, for that matter, and apply all the appropriate measures to all passengers.' On the other hand some human ...

DOUGLAS, Ariz. --Authorities say an illegal immigrant was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was attacked with rocks in southern Arizona. Border Patrol spokesman Omar Candelaria says the shooting occurred Monday after the agent and his dog ...

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Pittsburg, Texas-based Pilgrim's Pride announced it will pay the federal government $4.5 million over three years to settle a two-year investigation into identity theft and hiring people not authorized to work in the United States. As part of the ...

Four British Columbia men are the latest to face U.S. charges in a multimillion-dollar cross-border drug smuggling case that has links to a gang member. ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- As 30,000 U.S. troops begin to deploy to Afghanistan, fears are rising in Pakistan that a stepped-up war just over the border could worsen the increasingly bloody struggle with militancy here. Residents in border areas such as the ...

Starting January 4, people who have been tested positive to HIV virus can make their trip to the United States after the Obama administration overturned a 22 year ban that refused entry to immigrants who were suffering from AIDS. The ban was placed ...

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