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The United States Embassy in Nairobi has announced that the waiting time for US visa interview appointment for Kenyans will be increased up to 30 days, from the earlier seven days.
"Please be advised the Visa interview wait time at the US embassy, Nairobi is now 30 days up from seven days. We…
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President Donald Trump has officially announced that young undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children – so-called dreamers – will continue to be protected from deportation.
In a fact sheet posted on the Department of Homeland Security website on Thursday, the…
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President Donald Trump suffered another legal setback on Monday as a second federal appeals court refused to revive his travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority nations in a dispute headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of…
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The Baltimore (Maryland) County Council on Monday voted to suspend a bill that would have required immigration status checks for people arrested and detained in county jails.
The County Council voted 5-2 to table the motion, which if it became law would have joined the county jail to a federal…
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The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for US visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years.
The new questions, part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be visitors to the United States…
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Supporters and opponents of an immigration bill packed a Baltimore County Council hearing on Tuesday. The bill, supported by the county council’s three Republican members, would allow jail officials to screen county jail inmates for immigration violations if passed
The bill would enter Baltimore…
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Effects of the US President Donald Trump’s travel ban seven countries have started being felt after the United States issued about 50 per cent fewer visitors with visas in April to citizens of seven countries named in President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban.
The US issued fewer visas than it…
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A federal appeals court dealt another blow to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries on Thursday, siding with groups that say the policy illegally targets Muslims.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that blocks the…
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In the first 3 months of 2017, the US government deported a total of 1,200 Africans, with most of these immigrants being nationals of Ghana, Nigeria, Somali, and Kenya.
The data, gathered by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, suggests that if the current trend…
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The police department of Howard County, Maryland has put out a directive clarifying that the county police will not enforce federal immigration laws.
The directive, meant to ease the public’s, especially foreign-born, interaction with the county police, says that police will not ask about anyone’s…
