If you came to the United States with the status of being a Temporary Non-Immigrant, but now wish to alter the purpose of your stay – perhaps you came as a tourist but have decided you would rather like to study here – then you can legally change your status simply by filling out the […]
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Over 14,000 immigrants will become new citizens of the US in a ceremony to celebrate the 242nd birthday of the nation in almost 175 naturalization ceremonies across the country, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The ceremonies began on 28 June and will continue until 10 July. The first naturalization ceremony of the
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The naturalization process, which allows qualified new Americans to be able to vote, takes an average of six months to complete. It also offers a US passport and the chance to hold elected office in most counties and states in the US. Department of Homeland Security data suggests that there has been a steady increase
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Senator Marco Rubio has clarified his opinion on the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. On Wednesday, the day after a presidential debate that continued to show the rift in the Republican Party when it comes to the immigration issue, Rubio told NPR that he is in favor of granting some
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Over $1 billion has been spent by the US Government in an attempt to replace its outdated, paperwork-intensive method of immigration management with digitization, in order to allow for applications to be made online via a full repertoire of almost 100 electronic forms; however, after ten years of effort, only one form is currently available,
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Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), claims that the executive actions on immigration taken 12 months ago by President Obama were needed and have made the United States safer by keeping dangerous criminal immigrants out. On Thursday Johnson said that Homeland Security changed the way in which it asks municipalities
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There has been another increase in the quarterly list of Americans who have decided to terminate their long-term residency in the United States or renounce their citizenship. The third quarter of 2015 set a record high with regard to the amount of published expatriates, with the figure of 1,426 surpassing the previous high of 1,335
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Kevin McCarthy, the majority leader in the House of Representatives, is the front-runner to succeed current speaker John Boehner, who surprised everyone by announcing his resignation last week. McCarthy’s appointment could have major implications with regard to immigration reform, given that he represents a district with a very large Latino population.Despite this, McCarthy has so
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Jeb Bush has defied the increasingly harsh rhetoric used by his fellow would-be presidential candidates in the Republican Party by making a passionate speech in the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Houston, during which he openly supported the need to offer undocumented immigrants a pathway to US citizenship. “Earned legal status is the dignified way,
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Officials at the White House yesterday announced the commencement of a new campaign to encourage legal US immigrants to gain full citizenship, potentially adding millions of new voters to the electoral roll just in time for the 2016 presidential election. The United States currently has 8.8 million legal residents who are eligible for US citizenship.
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Fewer children are being born to undocumented immigrants in the United States, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center that was released on Friday. Around 295,000 children were born to parents who were undocumented immigrants in 2013, which is around 8% of the estimated 3.9 million births in the United States in
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