IMMIGRATION NEWS
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The Maryland state Senate on Monday night failed to advance a bill that prohibited the state’s law enforcement agencies from assisting federal immigration officers without a judicial warrant.
House Bill 1362, also known as “Trust Bill”, if it had become law, would have barred law enforcement,…
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U.S. Immigration agents are planning to deport about 4,000 Somali nationals from the United States, Somalia’s ambassador says.
"We learned through immigration sources that the total number of the Somalis that are in the books of [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to be removed are close to…
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Friday said it has received the 65,000 cap of H1-B visa applications for fiscal year 2018, less than a week after the filling period began.
Congress mandates a 65,000 visa cap for H1-B visa program, a program that allows American…
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The California State Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that prohibits law enforcement agencies from detaining for immigration purposes undocumented immigrants who are victims or witnesses of crime.
Bill AB493, sponsored by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, aims to allow immigrants to cooperate with…
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US Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday said there are plans to apply stricter screening procedures to foreigners visiting the United States.
Kerry, in a testimony in the US Senate, said the vetting would include visitors being asked to provide passwords to their social…
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Baltimore County (Maryland) Executive Kevin Kamenetz on Wednesday signed an executive order that bars the county’s police officers from detaining people solely based on suspicion of their immigration status and/or inability to speak English.
The order also states that police officers in the county…
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The California Senate on Monday voted 27-12 to pass a bill making California a “sanctuary state”. The bill, named Senate Bill 54, prohibits local and state law enforcement agencies from using public resources to “investigate, detain, report, or arrest persons for the purposes of immigration…
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced it will crack down on U.S. employers abusing the H1-B visa program.
In a press release made public on Monday, the agency said it will be conducting workplace raid to employers who have H1-beneficiaries on their payroll to…
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The application period for H1-B US visa petitions for fiscal year 2018 begins today, Monday, April 3rd, 2017.
H1-B is a popular non-immigrant visa program that grants high-skilled professionals especially in the tech industry visas to work in the US.
A total of 85,000 H1-B visas…
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U.S. Immigration officers arrested five people on Wednesday in Lawrence, New Hampshire when they showed up for green card interviews at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office, reports WBUR radio in Boston.
At least three of those arrested were in the process of becoming…
