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Foreign students from US universities were previously required to leave the country and apply for the highly competitive H-1B visa. This s is due to change. /24-7PressRelease/ - April 13, 2008 - The influx of petitions for highly skilled foreign migrants ...

Comitan (Mexico), April 14: Mexican police has rescued 83 illegal migrants being transported in a hidden compartment of a truck carrying animal feed, Spain's EFE news agency reported Sunday. The migrants, 76 Guatemalans, five Salvadorans and two ...

NEW YORK: They risked their lives for America, but federal red tape is strangling the citizenship hopes of a new generation of foreign-born veterans. Just ask Feyad Mohammed of Queens - it took him four tries and more than a year to become a citizen, and ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reports that it has already received enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap for fiscal year 2009. USCIS has also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of ...

Nikolaj Pedersen is receiving fewer visitors at his New Brunswick farmhouse, after friends, family and delivery people were told that getting there could be in violation of international laws. The 85-year-old lives outside of Aroostook, N.B., off a dusty ...

(Seoul) - Three North Koreans defectors left Thailand for the United States early Monday, becoming the latest refugees accepted by Washington under a 2004 law, officials said. A South Korean activist said the three were among 29 North Korean refugees who ...

SEOUL, South Korea: Three North Koreans defectors left Thailand for the United States early Monday, becoming the latest refugees accepted by Washington under a 2004 law, officials said. A South Korean activist said the three were among 29 North Korean ...

DALLAS - A US District Court judge has ordered a Texas woman to let the government survey her land for a border security fence, the latest round in a series of skirmishes to arise from the immigration-control measure. Eloisa Tamez has been been a ...

Employers hoping to hire highly skilled foreign workers will need patience and luck as they wait for results of a federal lottery system for H-1B visa applications. On April 8, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said that applications for H-1B ...

The SAVE Act is touted by proponents as an 'enforcement' bill, but it would in fact put us on a slow, painful path toward detention and deportation. The bill is championed by hard-line groups that advocate a strategy called 'deportation by attrition.' As ...

But since the attempted immigration reform bill faltered in Congress, a sometimes vicious assault against undocumented workers has ensued in many places across the country, where the draconian measures against illegal immigrants and their families have ...

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U.S. officials are tracking more Cuban migrant smuggling voyages across the Florida Straits, but a more popular route has emerged across the Yucatan Channel. Though the Yucatan crossing takes longer than the Florida Straits stretch, Cuban migrant ...

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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says he feels the pain of employers pinched by intensified efforts to control illegal immigration, but adds that until Congress enacts broad immigration reforms they shouldn't expect any changes in ...

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Biometrics technology has begun to gain acceptance throughout the US government. The need for immigration control and enhanced security drives the need for focused products and services to meet the needs of clients. Higher accuracy and developing ...

US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher has said that his country was in favour of holding parleys with the 'reconcilable' elements in the tribal areas along the Pak-Afghan border. He admitted that there were some in the tribal region who were ...

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says he feels the pain of employers pinched by intensified efforts to control illegal immigration, but adds that until Congress enacts broad immigration reforms they shouldn't expect any ...