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Foreign athletes have been exempted from the coronavirus-related immigration ban announced by Trump administration last month.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf in a statement on Friday, May 22nd, announced he had signed an order exempting foreign athletes who compete in professional…
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The US State Department has pushed the opening of the DV-2021 Green Card lottery Entrant Status Check to June 6, 2020.
The State Department says that due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the entrant status check will be postponed from May 5, 2020 to June 6, 2020.
The delayed opening “will not…
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to re-open its field offices, asylum offices, and application support centers (ASCs) to the public on June 4th, 2020.
The offices have been closed to the public since March 18th due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
USCIS says even though…
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(AP) President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that will temporarily halt the issuance of certain green cards as he uses the coronavirus pandemic to push long-stalled immigration measures during an election year.
While Trump says the move is designed to preserve jobs for American…
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(AP) President Donald Trump announced what he described as a “temporary suspension of immigration into the United States” on Tuesday, an executive order barring those seeking permanent residency green cards but not temporary workers.
Trump said he would be placing a 60-day pause on the issuance of…
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Two Kenyans suffering from Covid-19 are set to be deported from neighboring South Sudan, according to reports.
The decision to send the two patients back to Kenya arrived on Saturday, March 18th by South Sudan’s Covid-19 task force, which is leading the country’s response to the infection.…
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US President Donald has announced plans to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States.
In a tweet on Monday night, Trump he intends to sign an executive order suspending immigration to the US due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, as well as the “need to protect the jobs” of American…
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Kenya’s Immigration Director-General Alexander Muteshi has exuded confidence that the agency will achieve its July 1st, 2020 target of processing passports on the same day of application.
Muteshi, who was responding to questions asked by Daily Nation readers, said the Immigration Department is…
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A Nairobi court has rejected an application by a Kenyan-British couple seeking to adopt an 18-year-old Kenyan girl, citing immigration concerns.
In his ruling on Friday, High Court Justice Aggrey Muchelule said the British man, who is married to a Kenyan woman, failed to prove that the UK would…
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The Trump administration is planning to require Americans who sponsor their foreign spouses and other relatives for green cards to provide their bank account information.
In a notice scheduled to be published on the Federal Register on April 10th, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services…
