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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities have seen no signs of al Qaeda trying to insert operatives into the United States from Mexico, but the militant group has considered doing so, a U.S. intelligence official said on Friday. The comments by Charles Allen, ...

Federal immigration authorities received about 163,000 petitions for temporary work visas for highly skilled immigrants for the year starting Oct. 1, officials said Thursday, nearly twice as many as the number of visas available. The government each year ...

SUKSAMRAN, Thailand - Survivors of a human smuggling tragedy in Thailand, in which 54 people suffocated in a locked container truck, will be deported back to army-ruled Myanmar, a Thai court ruled on Friday. Some of the 67 survivors were fined up to $62 ...

Eduardo Zambrano, an Ecuadorean immigrant, has a green card, a candidate he supports in this presidential election -- Hillary Clinton -- and detailed knowledge of her experience as first lady. The one thing he doesn't have, despite years of trying: the ...

H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2009 will now be subject to random lottery selection as part of the temporary work visa program. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released the preliminary numbers of applications it has received for ...

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ARRIAGA, Mexico: For thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America, the long journey to the U.S. starts here, on the groaning back of a freight train they call The Beast. But these days many don't get too far. Central Americans without documents ...

WASHINGTON: The White House on Wednesday distanced itself from the US ambassador to Iraq?s statement that Al Qaeda on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is a greater threat than Al Qaeda in Iraq. ?The president is concerned about both, but I have not ...

H-1B visa exemptions for foreign-born students who received advanced degrees from U.S. schools. USCIS accepted the petitions for five days, beginning on April 1-7. During that period, the agency received 'a high number' of petitions, although it hasn't ...

LOS ANGELES (AP)--Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is asking federal officials to rethink their policy on workplace immigration crackdowns that involve established businesses and to focus on employers that mistreat workers instead. The mayor said ...

Editor's note: This story was updated with final applicant numbers on April 10, 2008. The U.S. government said Tuesday that it has received more than enough petitions for H-1B visas to meet the annual cap for the 2009 federal fiscal year, requiring it to ...

Criticism by federal legislators is mounting against Indian outsourcing firms that use the H-1B visa foreign worker program to staff their U.S. operations. Critics claim that the Indian firms skirt regulations and use the visas to train workers in the ...

veritable flood of applications for the 85,000 H-1B visas on offer for fiscal 2009, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that it would hold a computer-generated random selection to determine the recipients. As the five-day filing ...

The internet has been quoting an article entitled 'Russian Intelligence Sees U.S. Military Buildup on Iran Border' published by RIA Novosti allegedly on March 27, 2008. The date of this article is mistaken. Information Clearing House posted it on March ...

The girl's parents apologized for their daughter in a written statement. They did not return requests for comment. 'I see that my daughter was not assaulted and put the marks on her body,' Shera Bowers, the girl's mother, wrote. J.R. Bowers, the girl's ...

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Voorhis hugged teary-eyed supporters who cheered as the verdict was read. Pointing to an American flag pin on his lapel, Voorhis told one supporter, 'This is what I represent.' His attorney, Bill Taylor, later said the verdict restores Voorhis' ...

US Immigration authorities have received enough applications for the H-1B visas coveted by Indian high-tech professionals surpassing the 65,000 annual quota within a week and a random lottery will pick the successful aspirants. Announcing that the ...

SODERTALJE, Sweden -- Behind the wheel of his old Ford Escort, Oshin Merzoian puttered happily along snowy streets. Back home in Baghdad, he said, he always drove at crazy speeds to avoid killers and kidnappers. But here in 'Little Baghdad,' as this city ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As conservative groups in mainstream and grassroots America press for tighter legislation on immigration, some business and economic experts question the wisdom of purging illegal immigrants and restricting immigration into the country ...