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For concise and recent immigration information watch our news. USCIS announced on 28 August 2009 that H-1B visas are still available; Approximately 45,100 H-1B cap-subject petitions and approximately 20,000 petitions qualifying for the advanced degree ...

(EFE via COMTEX) -- (Updates with identity of former U.S. soldier killed at motel) ).- Seven men were gunned down in separate incidents in Ciudad Juarez, located just across the border from El Paso, Texas, including four killed at a motel, one of whom ...

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view results WASHINGTON -- will not immediately begin enforcement this month of a new rule requiring exporters and carriers to stipulate on electronic manifests nearly the exact amount of residual chemicals inside portable tank containers. According ...

Computerworld - The U.S. government late last month filed a new, expanded 18-count indictment that now seeks $4.9 million from a New Jersey IT services firm it has accused of fraudulently using H-1B visas. The government alleges that South Plainfield, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ' A Tennessee sheriff is balking at renewing his departments participation in a program that lets local authorities enforce federal immigration laws because new rules could keep secret basic information about whos being detained. ...

Hundreds of U.S. criminals and lawbreakers are being banned from Canada now that criminal-record checks are the norm at Windsor-Detroit border crossings, immigration officials say. The number of applications for Rehabilitation and Temporary Resident ...

Many people worry that health care changes could leave taxpayers footing medical bills for illegal immigrants. Member ID orE-Mail Address: Password: Remember me on this computer. ...

Heritage Lecture #1132 Chair Sandra Harwood, Vice Chair Mark Schneider, Ranking Member Matthew Dolan, and committee members--thank you for this opportunity to share my thoughts and answer your questions to the best of my ability. The topic of this ...

In an attempt to better understand and target organized retail crime activity, the National Retail Federation announced a new partnership with the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read the release. (09/04) ...

American Apparel terminated 1,600 workers in its Los Angeles operations after the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement examined company records and ruled the employees ineligible to work in the U.S. The company's owner says when workers get proper ...

By August end, USCIS had received nearly 50,000 visas, five months after opening the counters, a far cry from the days not so long ago when visas used to get exhausted within 48 to 96 hours ...

Early one morning last June, fully two hours before his appointment, Mustafa Salih arrived at a federal office here in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. He wore the new suit he had bought for the occasion. A friend, accompanying him, carried a camera to ...

By Read the Original Article at // targetAction rating 0 ) else U.S. and Mexican agencies will work together to build a voice, data, and video network that will be used for cross-border public safety and law enforcement. An agreement signed this week ...

On his recent trip to Mexico, President Barack Obama held out hope for action on a comprehensive immigration bill -- but perhaps not this year. 'I would anticipate that, before the year is out, we will have draft legislation along with sponsors ...

TUCSON, Ariz. --Authorities say a former high-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was stationed in Mexico before retiring in 2007 has been arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling. Richard Padilla Cramer was arrested Friday at ...

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Next week, government contractors will have to verify the citizenship of their employees by entering them into a database. But the process comes with its share of costs and complications. John Dimsdale reports. U.S. passports (IStockphoto) More on Jobs, ...

The United States hopes Kazbegi-Zemo Larsi border crossing point on Georgia-Russia border will be reopened and the two countries will be able to resume commercial and tourist links in the future, the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi said. The statement was made ...

MEXICO CITY --Mexico's Health Department says it will launch a pilot program to encourage migrants working in the United States to sign up their families in Mexico for the Mexican government's low-income health insurance program. The department says the ...