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the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") announced that, as of November 18, 2011, it had received 61,800 new petitions that count against the 65,000 standard H-1B cap, and all 20,000 H-1B petitions that count against the H-1B master's ...

Gov. Martin O'Malley and his leader, President Obama, have unilaterally decided not enforce the country's immigration laws. They have told the Justice Department to leave law-breakers alone because they don't consider the laws significant. Thus they ...

annual H-1B cap has been reached for this year, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and at a pace that is two months ahead of last year. U.S. issues 85,000 H-1B visas each year under its cap, with 20,000 of that number set aside ...

An illegal immigrant who falsely claimed to be a tortured Afghani refugee with a severe disability and fraudulently claimed almost 400,000 in benefits has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Mohamed Bouzalim, 37, a Moroccan national, has admitted ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. The Canada's immigration enforcement officials do not inspect their visa system to protect their country from foreign criminals and people with chronic or deadly diseases, according to a report released ...

- Tres trabajadores migrantes Mexicanos han interpuesto una demanda contra el gobierno Canadiense y contra un operador agrcola de Ontario por incumplimiento de contrato y daos, luego que los trabajadores fueron repatriados sin haber tenido ninguna ...

Civil rights groups say a judge's decision to halt part of Alabama's strict illegal immigration enforcement law averted a Thanksgiving weekend exodus of Hispanics from the state. Some portions of Alabama's law, known as HB 56 and described by supporters ...

Newt Gingrich has charged into the fray over illegal immigration, risking conservative ire just as his Republican presidential campaign once declared all but dead has vaulted into front-runner status. The firebrand former House speaker broke with what ...

Plans are afoot to construct a US-Mexico border fence on the lines of the Great Wall of China to stop illegal immigration. The yet-to-be built US-Mexico wall could be named the Great Wall of Mexico or the Great Wall of Arizona. The final decision could ...

U.S. IMMIGRATION GRANTS REPRIEVE TO CNMI NONRESIDENTS Case-by-case extension of legal status worries Governor SAIPAN, CNMI (Marianas Variety, Nov. 25, 2011) Thanksgiving got more meaningful for thousands of nonresidents and their families when U.S. ...

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Taiwan News, Website Editorial Staff Fonts Size TAIPEI (Taiwan News) When People First Party Chairman James Soong and his running mate, Lin Ruey-shiung, completed their election registration on November 24, Lin showed a document from the United ...

View full sizeDemonstrators protest after arrests were made when protestors blocked traffic outside the Alabama Statehouse during a demonstration against Alabama's immigration law in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011. Federal courts have blocked ...

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Michael Fenrick, a Toronto lawyer who is part of the team handling the case, says this is the first suit of its kind by migrant workers invoking their charter rights. The three men are seeking $25,000 each in damages for breach of contract, Fenrick said. ...

The American group Northrop Grumman has run into serious competition from China to supply an electronic surveillance system along the Algerian-Moroccan border.(...) [156words] [5] Want to read more ? Please consider subscribing or ...

WASHINGTON - Influential conservatives in early-voting states sharply criticized Newt Gingrich yesterday for declaring that some illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country legally, a stance that could imperil his new position atop ...

TIJUANA, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) -- Mexican security forces have discovered an underground tunnel holding nearly eight tons (16,000 pounds) of marijuana in the country's northwestern area near the U.S. border, officials confirmed on Thursday. Mexican second ...

Civil rights groups say a judge's decision to halt part of Alabama's strict illegal immigration enforcement law averted a Thanksgiving weekend exodus of Hispanics from the state. Some portions of Alabama's law, known as HB 56 and described by supporters ...