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National experts and scholars on U.S.-Mexico security will gather at UTEP Monday and Tuesday for a two-day conference. The fourth annual Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence Colloquium will delve into the theme of intelligence and ...

THE United States (U.S.) Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has begun accepting the H-1B nonimmigrant petitions that are subject to the 2012 fiscal year cap. The agency in a statement made available to The Guardian over the weekend said it was ...

CHICAGO - Federal officials are taking steps to overhaul the nation's immigration courts - adding judges, improving training, and trying to reduce the influence of politics. But critics say these changes are too little and long overdue. The efforts ...

H/T to the ever -fruitful blog Refugee Resettlement Watch for alerting me to a seminal Australian article which, with the North African fiasco now brewing, is liable to be all too relevant to America: How I lost faith in ...

the United States began accepting Fiscal Year 2012 (FY 2012) H-1B petitions from US employers wishing to hire overseas workers in specialty occupations. The overseas workers are mainly in professional level jobs that require you to at least have a ...

Shortly after her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident in India, she arrived in Chicago. It was early 2003 and she'd left her nearly 4-year-old son home for what she thought would be a short separation until she launched her nursing career. ...

Not targeted but not safe, young illegal immigrants push for a new policy Young activists had pinned their hopes on the Dream Act. When it was put to bed, they started a new strategy: 'Coming out' as illegal immigrants and protesting their uncertain ...

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FollowSubscribeSponsor an Examiner Do you like this Article? United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced they started accepting H-1B specialty worker visa petitions on a first come, first served basis starting April 1 for ...

10 de abril de 2011, 12:47Washington, Apr 10 (Prensa Latina) Immigrant rights groups in the United States are considering backing a national immigration reform patterned after legislation in Utah. In tha southwestern U.S. state, lawmakers passed ...

National experts and scholars on U.S.-Mexico security will gather at UTEP Monday and Tuesday for a two-day conference. The fourth annual Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence Colloquium will delve into the theme of intelligence and ...

The U.S. needs this man. But it wont let him in. The Orwellian tale of an immigration ordeal. ...

Kesnel Sineus thought he was following all the rules in his bid for asylum. The Haitian native filed an application, wrote letters to nudge his case along, had an interview, then waited for the next step. It turned out to an unexpected one: Federal ...

Colombo, Apr 10 (PTI) Sri Lanka today said a. humanitarian gesture in view of its ties with India had been. inappropriately dubbed by a section of media here as a willful. violation of immigration rules. Sri Lankan Navy spokesman Kosala Warnakulasuriya ...

According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and as is detailed on the USCIS website (www.uscis.gov), USCIS has published a proposed rule that could save U.S. businesses more than $23 million over the next 10 years by establishing an ...

- U.S. Travel Association Calls on Congress, Obama Administration to Create Jobs by Reducing Barriers to International Travelers, Create Smarter Visa System. The single greatest roadblock to increasing international travel to the United States is an ...

SALT LAKE CITY ? Pro-immigration activists are looking to Utah as a compassionate and logical model for shaping the nation's future policies toward illegal immigrants. Utah leaders ? including government, education, business and religious groups ? came ...

For the past nine months, an organization in Princeton, N.J., has issued municipal identification cards to anyone who can prove they live or work in the city, regardless of their citizenship status. On most Saturday mornings, people start lining up ...

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In Arizona, no city has declared itself an official "city of refuge" or begun to issue municipal identification cards. But some cities have been informally labeled sanctuary cities because of their illegal-immigrant-reporting practices. Shortly after ...