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The application period for H-1B visas begins on April 1st of any given year. For the last several years, the number of H-1B visa petitions submitted for approval exceeded the cap by the end of the first or second week in April. In fact, so many petitions ...

No Plans to Expand Control for FY 2010 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the new fiscal year begins, the Department of Homeland Security's Annual Performance Report indicates that the department has no plans to increase control of U.S. ...

By Maria Sacchetti, Globe staff Two Massachusetts law enforcement agencies - the Framingham police and the Barnstable County sheriff's department - are no longer enrolled in a controversial program that let them enforce federal immigration laws. The ...

Reflecting the dire straits of the job market and strict regulations imposed by the US Congress, more than one-fourth of the H-1B, once the most sought after visas, is yet to be grabbed. According to the latest figure update by US Citizenship and ...

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WASHINGTON -- More than 6,000 people were killed trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border illegally in the past 15 years, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday. The ACLU urged the North American neighbors to declare a humanitarian crisis in ...

The Mexican authorities should not forcibly repatriate three migrants shot and injured by security forces at the country's southern border, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The three were part of a group of seven undocumented migrants from El ...

A gigantic increase in visa applications would be expected if President Obama?s overhaul of immigration law comes to pass next year. ...

BOSTON --Two Massachusetts law enforcement agencies have announced that they are no longer enrolled in a controversial program that allows them enforce federal immigration laws. The Framingham police and the Barnstable County sheriff's department ...

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White House - Blog Post - Word from the White House: Reality Check on , Undocumented Immigrants, Rationing Additional " THE BLOG THE BLOG THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1ST, 2009 AT 10:49 AM Word from the White House: Reality Check on , Undocumented Immigrants, ...

Washington: Reflecting the dire straits of the job market and strict regulations imposed by the US Congress, more than one-fourth of the H-1B, once the most sought after visas, is yet to be grabbed. According to the latest figure update by US Citizenship ...

Climate change is the most important environmental issue facing the United States and the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that the ?scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal? (NASA Jet ...

WASHINGTON: Reflecting the dire straits of the job market and strict regulations imposed by the US Congress, more than one-fourth of the H-1B, once the most sought after visas, is yet to be grabbed. According to the latest figure update by US Citizenship ...

WASHINGTON: Reflecting the dire straits of the job market and strict regulations imposed by the US Congress, more than one-fourth of the H-1B, once the most sought after visas, is yet to be grabbed. According to the latest figure update by US Citizenship ...

The number of people who have died this year while attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico has increased to its highest level since 2006, US data and a report by human rights groups has said. The increase in fatalities comes in spite of a ...

SPARKS, NV -- (MARKET WIRE) Sierra Nevada Corporation's President Eren Ozmen is pleased to announce that SNC has been awarded a competitive contract valued at more than $600M for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Multirole ...

Once coveted by Indian techies, more than one fourth of the H-1B visas for skilled professionals are yet to be grabbed, with the US job market still to pick up as it recovers from its deepest recession in decades. By Sep 25 only about 46,700 of the H-1B ...

Andrea VM wrote: 'Look into the mirror: US is not a dream country any longer, it is quickly becoming a third world country.' ----- The US is becoming a Third World country because we've imported far too many Third Worlders with low skills, a high need ...

With the federal government set to begin its new fiscal year Oct. 1, Sen. Chuck Grassley wants the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to require that new H-1B visa applicants actually have a job waiting for them in the U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, ...