US Immigration

It is currently a boom time for the hotel and restaurant trade in Chicago, but as demand grows, so does the need for workers. Many businesses say that more immigration rather than less is the answer to their labor requirements. Chicago on Global Affairs captures these sentiments in a new report. The report analyzes the reliance on […]

Many couples who cannot have children on their own or who simply wish to change the life of a child without parents choose to adopt. While in the past most parents adopted children who were US-based, increasingly strict adoption rules have meant that many parents now look beyond US borders in order to adopt. Currently,

Many people get their green cards through family sponsorship. If you have become a US citizen or permanent resident, you can sponsor your immediate family to come and live in the US through a family green card. The US makes this possible in order to keep families together. Therefore, if you have moved to the US

A private airplane filled with undocumented immigrants has been seized by federal authorities. The aircraft was being used in a bid to smuggle seven undocumented immigrants across the Texas border into the interior of the United States to evade immigration checkpoints. The airplane was seized and the seven undocumented immigrants arrested on Sunday morning at McAllen Miller

The immigration court in Chicago is now the second average slowest at disposing of cases in the US, because of an increase in the number of pending cases, as well as the complex nature of many of them, according to statistics. Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has collected national data, showing that the average

A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorney has been charged with stealing the identity of immigrants in an effort to defraud several credit card firms. The chief ICE counsel in Seattle, Raphael A Sanchez, has been charged with one count each of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud, a charging document filed in the US District

The Northern Oregon Regional Corrections (NORCOR) facility, in The Dalles, will no longer honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers on people brought into the jail for local charges. The NORCOR jail officially announced its change of policy in April, after settling a lawsuit with a man from Hood River, who claimed that his constitutional

Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has decided to retain a secret policy of the United States that prevents immigration officials checking the social media posts of foreigners who have submitted applications for US visas, ABC News has reported. The ABC claims that Johnson chose to maintain the policy out of fear

Federal immigration officers in an Atlanta field office that covers both the Carolinas and Georgia have arrested 127 undocumented immigrants since a nationwide crackdown kicked off in January. That is more than any other field office in the whole of the United States, according to new federal figures. A total of 336 people were apprehended

The decision in 2014 by the Obama administration to move to a less aggressive method of working with local jails in regard to immigration enforcement has left lawmakers in Texas who want to put an end to sanctuary cities in something of a dilemma. On Tuesday, a state senate committee hearing charged with studying issues related to