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Immigration officials held a cancer patient for four hours before they allowed him to enter the USA because one of his cancer drugs caused his fingerprints to disappear. His oncologist is now advising all cancer patients who are being treated with the ...

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PM ET RELATED NEWS TOP MARKET NEWS (RTTNews) - Tuesday, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC: News ) announced that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services awarded the company a task order to conduct scanning, indexing and file management operations at a ...

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(Computerworld) WASHINGTON -- As unemployment among tech workers increases with the recession, the U.S. government is raising broad questions as part of a federal case over H-1Bs about the connection of visa fraud to the unemployment of IT workers. The ...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is in Ottawa today to meet with Canadian officials and discuss 'challenges' along the Canada-U.S. border. Our political leaders ought to take the opportunity to tell Napolitano that the main challenge is ...

(Computerworld) WASHINGTON -- As unemployment among tech workers increases with the recession, the U.S. government is raising broad questions as part of a federal case over H-1Bs about the connection of visa fraud to the unemployment of IT workers. The ...

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Americans and Canadians heading to the United States from Canada on vehicles or cruise ships will face new entry requirements beginning next week, the Homeland Security Department said. Next Monday, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative will begin ...

The pact, known as the Shiprider program, will allow officers from the RCMP and the U.S. Coast Guard to team up and ride in each others' vessels for specific operations or joint patrols. At present, vessels must stop at the border and call upon the other ...

The Texas Supreme Court is being asked to void a $15.8 million damages award to a family which lost four members in a truck accident because the driver's illegal immigrant status was mentioned during the trial, and purportedly inflamed the jury. Chuck ...

DETROITPublic Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano signed an agreement to allow the nations to help enforce each others' laws on the waterways along the shared border. Napolitano and Van Loan formally ...

By The Canadian Press DETROIT - Canada's public safety minister says an agreement with the U.S. that allows the two countries to help enforce each other's laws isn't an affront to Canadian sovereignty. The pact, known as the Shiprider program, would ...

(CNN) -- Americans and Canadians heading to the United States from Canada on vehicles or cruise ships will face new entry requirements beginning next week, the Homeland Security Department said. Next Monday, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative will ...

DETROIT About 50 feet before a car from Canada reaches the border inspection booth, the screenings begin. A camera snaps your license plate. An electronic card reader mounted on a yellow post scans your car for the presence of any radio-frequency ID ...

WITH a wry nod to his problems with American immigration authorities, British folk singer Yusuf Islam performed his first US concert in 33 years this month, treating 400 fans to classics from the days when he was known as Cat Stevens. The 60-year-old ...

A few Americans managed to sneak past Microsoft's virtual US-Canada border over the weekend to get in on some 1 vs. 100 beta action., all that was needed to sneak into the Canada-only beta was one Canadian Xbox Live account. From that account, reminders ...

A group of master of fine arts students and recent graduates from the University of California, San Diego are busy organizing the Freephone Art Project, an unusual art 'installation' that will provide people who may have been deported from the U.S. via ...

HYDERABAD: The National Association for Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) appears to be more worried about the impact in India of proposed changes in immigration laws in the United States than the tax reforms recently mooted by President Barack ...

(AKI) - Italy's conservative prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has sought to deflect criticism of Italy's harsh immigration policies by stressing potential migrants are welcome in his country. In an interview broadcast on the US television network, CNN, ...