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Demand is off at the federal agency that handles everything from citizenship applications to work visas. The slump follows fiscal year 2008, when there was a tight contraction in citizenship requests at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. ...

A pair of eyes peers out from underneath the bushes where about 20 people crouch in silence, hiding from men in uniforms waving search lights on the other side of a barbed-wire fence. 'We are federal agents and we know you are there,' an amplified voice ...

New driver's licence will be accepted instead of passport at land crossings Quebec Premier Jean Charest showed off his 'smart' driver's licence near the Canada-U.S. border on Monday as his province became the first in the country to issue the new ...

The recent economic downturn has caused companies across the country to downsize and restructure workforces, including H-1B employees. Employers of H-1B workers often are unaware of specific immigration compliance obligations when ending the employment ...

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WASHINGTON ??' Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan on Monday said he's convinced early worries that the new Obama administration might impose new security measures at the Canada-U.S. border have been overblown. At the start of a three-day visit to ...

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A special border-patrol unit consisting of RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency agents will soon take shape in Quebec under a pilot project which could herald a new nationwide efforts to beef up border security. The patrol will monitor Quebec-U.S. ...

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This story appears in the March 16 print edition of Transport Topics. President Obama signed legislation last week that killed the Transportation Department??s controversial test of longhaul cross-border trucking with Mexico, but the administration ...

Carlos Garcia Hernandez stepped out of a U.S. immigration van at the Mexico border, his sixth deportation, and bragged hed be back. Then the skinny tattooed teen was escorted across the Rio Grande bridge into Matamoros by U.S. agents, where in an ...

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(Houston Chronicle - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Carlos Garcia Hernandez stepped out of a U.S. immigration van at the Mexico border, his sixth deportation, and bragged he'd be back. Then the skinny tattooed teen was escorted ...

SAN DIEGO -- Eight suspected illegal immigrants, including a 16-year-old boy, were found inside a drainage pipe at the nation's busiest border crossing late Saturday after a daylong search by authorities. None of the six males and two females appeared to ...

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THE UNITING American Families Act would allow gay and lesbian Americans and permanent residents to sponsor their foreign-born partners for legal residency in the United States. The bill, introduced last month in the Senate by Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and in ...

Graciela Barrios, an undocumented immigrant, has long relied on her Sacramento County health clinic for the advice, medication and tests that keep her diabetes under control. But next month, Barrios and thousands like her will be on their own as ...

At least 62 Nigerian deportees from the US [United States of America] yesterday arrived the country aboard a charted aircraft which torched down at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. Reports say 14 of the deportees were sent home for ...

_Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer_ (mailto:kzito@sfchronicle.com) Sunday, March 8, 2009 SFGate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined hundreds of families Saturday evening at a church in San Francisco's Mission District demanding an end to the immigration ...