A caravan of immigrants leaving Honduras has increased to as many as 4,000, and now the government of Mexico has sent a further 500 federal police officers to their nation’s border with Guatemala to prepare for their arrival. This is according to documents allegedly obtained by NBC News from the US government. The caravan has […]
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The federal government has given the City and County of Denver almost three-quarters of $1 million after a successful rebuking of the attempt by the Department of Justice to penalize some cities in the US for failing to cooperate with immigration enforcement. The office of Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General of the US, approved the request for
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On Tuesday, the door was opened to a broad overhaul of the immigration system in the US by President Donald Trump, during his first speech to Congress since his inauguration. The President also promised to pursue tax relief for people in the middle class. The nationally televised speech saw Trump declare that the time had
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Travelers who overstay their trips to the U.S. have become the nation’s main source of illegal immigration, according to the Associated Press. Statistics from the Department of Homeland Security show that as many as 527,127 people, who arrived in the country by ship or plane rather than land, and were scheduled to leave the US
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Originally, in the 1700s and the early 1800s, it was relatively easy to come to America. Any immigrant who had enough money to come to America could generally do so with relatively few restrictions. After the Civil War, however, many states began to restrict US immigration and by 1875, the Supreme Court determined that US
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The student US visas of as many as 60 Saudi students who are enrolled for this academic year at American universities have been cancelled by US immigration authorities. An official with the organization, known as Saudis in America, which offers aid to consultation to students from that country, said that the study US visas of a variety
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The hopes of many Indian students seeking higher education in the United States have been shattered after immigration authorities began taking a harsh stance towards Indian students. Another batch of Indian students was deported on Friday, with the students claiming that their US visas were cancelled without verification of their student records and without clarification being sought.
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On Monday (1 October, 2018), the U.S. will begin implementing a new rule to allow the commencement of deportation proceedings for legal immigrants whose right to remain in the country has expired for various reasons, including a change in status, or their US visas being denied, according to officials. But, holders of H-1B US visas will likely
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Earlier this year, immigration hardliners in the White House tried to persuade President Donald Trump to stop giving student U.S. visas to Chinese nationals. But it has been revealed that concerns over the diplomatic and economic impact of such a move caused the proposal to be scrapped. According to insiders, White House aide, Stephen Miller, one of
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US Immigration Fund has announced that the first approvals have been given for I-526 petitions from EB-5 U.S. visa investors who invested in Halletts Point, Astoria, in the New York borough of Queens. The EB-5 investor has to file the I-526 petition to show that they have already invested, or are investing, the necessary capital for an
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