Immigration

Convicted Vegas bomber gets life without parole

LAS VEGAS: An illegal immigrant from Nicaragua has been sentenced to life in Nevada prison without parole for killing a hot dog stand vendor with a pipe bomb he built and hid in a coffee cup outside a Las Vegas Strip casino in 2007.

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Mass. immigration reforms in peril after Brown win

BOSTON: For months, immigrant advocacy groups like the Chelsea Collaborative and Berkshire Immigrant Center have been gearing up to push lawmakers on state and federal immigration reforms. ...

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Controversial USCIS memo on H-1B petitions

Donald Neufeld, Associate Director for US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Operations, released a memorandum on January 8, 2010, that provides guidance concerning the requirement that an H-1B petitioner establish that an employer-employee relationship exists and will continue to exist with the beneficiary throughout the duration of the requested H-1B validity period. ...

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Report highlights benefits of immigration reform

WASHINGTON DC: As the US slowly pulls free from a deep recession, a groundbreaking new study concludes that comprehensive immigration reform would provide just the type of boost the economy needs. ...

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Fate of derivative family members discussed

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sometimes approves a Form I-485 (Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status) for a principal applicant, but the derivative family members' (spouse or minor children) I-485 applications remain pending. ...

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US Shiites tentatively make a home in America

DEARBORN, Mich.: Sayyid Haider Bahar al-Uloom paces before his students seated in two neat rows men in one, women in the other. They meet each week in a small but growing office in an old storefront downtown, its shelves lined with Arabic texts on Islamic jurisprudence. ...

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About 250 march to support immigration bill

EVERETT, Wash.: About 250 people marched in Everett to support an immigrant bill soon to be debated in Congress. Immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Kenya and Laos were among the crowd. ...

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Rep. Polis pushes for `Startup' immigrant visas

BOULDER, Colo.: Last summer, Kevin Mann came to Boulder from the United Kingdom with a startup and a 90-day visa. ...

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Haitians seeking US refuge will be returned

MIAMI: US authorities are readying for a potential influx of Haitians seeking to escape their earthquake-wracked nation, even though the policy for migrants remains the same: with few exceptions, they will go back. ...

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New airport security screenings cause concern

NEW YORK: Organizations that work closely with Muslim, Sikh, and South Asian communities, expressed serious concerns regarding the new screening standards announced by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). "We believe that these standards, made effective on January 4, will lead to the racial and religious profiling of airline passengers from certain countries and religious faiths," they said in a joint statement. ...

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