Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
In yet another step to tackle sophisticated cyberspace threats and improve security along the border, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano issued a second round of action directives on cyber security and the northern border strategy.
These direct specific offices to collect information, review existing strategies and ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
On January 22, 2009, the District Court of Columbia's Judge Ricardo M. Urbina sentenced a naturalized citizen of Mexico from Ghana for five years on charges of smuggling East Africans into the United States. The main accused Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim along with co-accused Sampson Lovelace Boateng conspired to smuggle unauthorized ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Voicing concern over the past administration eight year's harsh policies, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) appeals the new Obama administration to eschew the indiscriminate "enforcement-only" policies with just and rational approach to immigration policy that restore rule of law and aid America's core economic, security and humanitarian interests.
AILA observed ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
All Charge-ability Areas Except Those Listed
CHINA-mainland born
INDIA
MEXICO
PHILIP-PINES
Employment-Based
1st
C
C
C
C
C
2nd
C
01 Jan 05
01 Jan 04
C
C
3rd
01 May 05
01 Oct 02
15 Oct 01
01 Apr 03
01 May 05
Other
Workers
15 Mar 03
01 Oct 02
15 Oct 01
15 Oct 01
15 Mar 03
4th
C
C
C
C
C
Certain Religious Workers
C
C
C
C
C
5th
C
C
C
C
C
Targeted Employment Areas/
Regional Centers
C
C
C
C
C
The latest Visa Bulletin issued by The U.S. Department of State (DOS) for February ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals overruled Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) final order of removal of an LPR on charges of having knowingly "encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien to enter or to try to enter the United States in violation of law."
The Second Circuit Court ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
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Carrying forward the tradition started by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the Obama administration took the first step to put its imprint on the government, by ordering a stoppage on all federal regulation spending at the end of Bush era until. This has become ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
In an interesting article, New York Times (NYT) reported on the increasing trend of holding multiple passports. The NYT reports that "Globalization and marriage to immigrants are reasons that more Americans are getting dual citizenship, but the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the recent economic collapse also came up ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
The Washington Post published a recently released nationwide survey poll results that showed Latinos are more worried about the economy than immigration issues. The survey was conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center and the results were released on January 15, 2009. Only 31 percent of Latinos surveyed cited immigration ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
In a landmark decision United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit opined that an alien seeking asylum must, with some exceptions, "demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the application [for asylum] has been filed within one year after the date of the alien's arrival in the United ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
With more than 50 senior executives representing over 30 of the world's leading commercial nuclear companies, the USIBC-NEI Commercial Nuclear Mission was the largest trade mission of US commercial nuclear executives ever to visit India. Led by Mr. Steve Hucik, GEHitachi, the Delegation brought together some of the world's leading ...
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