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By Staff (SP) Toronto - Harper's government has launched a campaign to help prevent immigration fraud and cut the number of immigration scams being perpetrated. The government is conducting an online survey to uncover dishonest behaviour by immigration ...

MINNEAPOLIS (Workday Minnesota) It?s too late for hundreds of workers in Postville, Iowa, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that charges of aggravated identity theft cannot be based on giving a false Social Security numbers to an employer. The ...

China has tightened visa rules for citizens from the United States, which has reported the second highest number of A (H1N1) flu cases in the world. Special coverage: Related readings: M A notice dated May 3 on the website for the Chinese Embassy and ...

ATLANTA -- Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a divisive law Tuesday making the state only the second after Arizona to require prospective voters to prove their U.S. citizenship, a practice opponents say would keep the poor, elderly and minorities away ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe only an outsider could mimic former first lady Laura Bush , Renee Zellweger and polygamous wives on American television and get away with it. But British comedy transplant Tracey Ullman says it's been only since she became a ...

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Ontario residents can now apply for an enhanced driver's licence to use instead of a passport when crossing into the United States, Transportation Minister Jim Bradley announced Tuesday, even though the new documents won't be ready for weeks. The U.S. ...

In a dispute between Sprint Nextel Corp. and the State of Michigan over ??allocation? of some of the public safety channels in the reconfigured 800 MHz band in the geographic area near the U.S.-Canadian border, the Federal Communications ...

China has tightened visa rules for citizens from the United States, which has reported the second highest number of swine flu cases in the world after Mexico. A notice dated May 3 on the Web site for the Chinese Embassy and its consulates in the US said ...

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Islamabad (PTI): The US is expected to mount 'intense pressure' on Pakistan to 'shift its strategic focus' from its eastern border with India by redeploying 'much of over 250,000 troops' to the frontier with Afghanistan to carry out counter-insurgency ...

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BEIJING - CHINA has changed visa rules for citizens from the United States, which has reported the second highest number of swine flu cases in the world. A notice dated May 3 on the Web site for the Chinese Embassy and its consulates in the US said that ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court returned an important piece of justice to Americas immigration struggles yesterday. In Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the Court, explained federal statute 18 U. S. C. 1028A (a)(1) imposes: a mandatory consecutive two-year ...

Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe only an outsider could mimic former first lady Laura Bush, Renee Zellweger and polygamous wives on American television and get away with it. But British comedy ...

An American Samoa health team boarded Monday night?s Hawaiian Air flight to check on arriving passengers for swine flu. This is the start of the territory?s border surveillance in response to the H1N1 outbreak. American Samoa?s Medical Director for ...

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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a favorite tool of prosecutors in immigration cases, ruling unanimously that a federal identity-theft law may not be used against many illegal workers who used false Social Security numbers to get jobs. ...

In an effort to crack down on illegal labor, the Department of Homeland Security intends to step up enforcement efforts against employers who knowingly hire such workers. Under guidelines to be issued Thursday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement field ...