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US government donations strengthen Tajikistan's border security 01.04.2008 10:07Author: Bahrom MannonovDUSHANBE, April 1, Asia-Plus -- On March 31, the US Ambassador, Tracey Ann Jacobson and Gurez Zaripov, Chairman of the Customs Service of Tajikistan, ...

Sridhar Kora's Tuesday morning began as an anxious waiting game, a roll of the dice that the success of his business depends upon. Kora, vice president of Oceanapps, a Houston software consulting company, spent a portion of the day keeping tabs on a ...

WASHINGTON In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will waive federal environmental laws to meet that goal. The two waivers, which will allow ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State released the complete details of the WHTI initiative on Thursday and announced an effective date of June 1, 2009. At that time, a passport or other WHTI-compliant document (see ...

WASHINGTON In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will waive federal environmental laws to meet that goal. The two waivers, which will allow ...

Passover connects us Published: 04/01/2008 The CEO of HIAS draws on the upcoming holiday of Passover to defend the American Jewish community's support for immigration. ...

CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. - As in politics, timing is everything in tomatoes. Finding and keeping the field hands who can pick 10,000 tomatoes a day during the hot months of August and September is no less a test of organizational traction than any ...

The mad dash has begun. Employers on Tuesday began filing H-1B visa petitions in hopes their applications are among the 85,000 that will be randomly selected by the U.S. government allowing those companies to hire foreign tech workers for fiscal 2009 ...

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - The U.S government waived environmental and other regulations that it said on Tuesday threatened to delay completion of nearly 500 miles of a planned barrier fence along the border with Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary ...

The window for U.S. companies to submit their H-1B visa applications for next year opens today and ends on Monday. And Google's not very happy about the details. Neither are Microsoft and other tech companies. They want the government to increase the ...

AUSTIN, Texas - (Business Wire) Today is the first of five busy days at the Vermont Service Center. Located in the sleepy town of Saint Albans, VT, the service center is the primary federal office for filing most new H-1B Specialty Occupation ...

Says witnessed atrocities in Iraq Size: A A A Share: +Help TORONTO ? An American army deserter who says he witnessed U.S. military atrocities against civilians in Iraq hopes to persuade the courts Wednesday that Canada was wrong to deny him refugee ...

The weakening of the U.S. dollar has provided a boom for three cities' economies on the U.S./Canada border, especially in tourism.For two rust-belt cities--Buffalo, N.Y., and Detroit--the massive influx of Canadian tourists have provided a boost to their ...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of 2008, federal officials said Tuesday. Invoking the two legal ...

WASHINGTON, DC - April 1 - Today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that he is imposing a blanket waiver of environmental and land management laws along 470 miles of the U.S./Mexico border. and the Sierra Club have ...

WASHINGTON In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will waive federal environmental laws to meet that goal. The two waivers, which will allow ...

WASHINGTON- The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of 2008, federal officials said Tuesday. Invoking the two legal ...

The Department of Homeland Security will bypass environmental and land-management laws to build hundreds of miles of border fence between the United States and Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday. 'Criminal activity at the ...

The H-1B fiasco is back! Last year, faced with 123,480 applications in two days for a pool of just 65,000 H-1B visas, the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services was to see who would get a visa and who wouldn't. With a full year to decide what to ...

A highly skilled Canadian telecommunications specialist who worked in Utah for more than a decade has suddenly been denied entry into the U.S. in a case he and others say highlights the increasing difficulties Canadians are facing at the American border. ...