Just days after the inauguration speech of President Barack Obama Congressional leaders are speaking out, with the speech having resonated strongly with labor unions. For the very first time in a number of decades unions and migrant laborers have joined forces in order to come up with a plan for comprehensive immigration reform, ABC News […]
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Over six in ten Americans are now in favor of allowing undocumented immigrants to be given the chance to gain US citizenship, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. The findings show a big increase in support that appears to have been driven by the turnaround in the opinions of Republicans following their disastrous showing
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On January 10th 2013 more than ten individuals from all over the world were granted USA citizenship in a ceremony in Georgia that was hosted by former President Jimmy Carter. WRBL, a CBS affiliate in Columbus, Georgia, says that no less than 18 countries were represented during the naturalization ceremony including India, Mexico, the Philippines
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The University of Southern California’s Center for the Study of Immigration Integration recently released a report that discovered that around 3.6% of the US population who are of voting age are newly naturalized citizens, a statistic that includes people who have acquired US citizenship sometime over the course of the last decade. State magazine says
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Senator Marco Rubio has made an announcement in regards to his new ideas for the modernization of immigration reform. A recent interview conducted by the Wall Street Journal says that his plan includes a route to US citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the United States plus a provision for permanent residency. An alteration to the
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The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has recently announced their move to a new, centralized online manual of immigration policy as of January 7th this year. The first of the USCIS policy manuals to have been altered is the Citizenship and Naturalization volume, with no less than 11 other volumes still yet to be released,
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New energy appears to be focused on fixing the broken America immigration system following the re-election of President Barack Obama in November and the existential crisis being played out in the Republican Party. So what can the United States expect to take place this year? Overtures from the Republican Party would appear to be all
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Josephine Stout was born in Limerick in Ireland 90 years ago. Despite the fact that she has actually been living in the United States since 1923, she has never been able to gain US citizenship. Dubbed the oldest undocumented immigrant in America, Stout is now expected to get on the fast track to finally gain
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Congressman Charlie Dent has sponsored a bill that will make it much simpler for federal employees who are foreign born to be able to get US citizenship, and the bill has already been passed by the US House and Senate. The bill, which is known as HR 6223, would enable some employees who are already
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The consequences of President Barack Obama’s triumphant victory in the US election in November — with a little bit of a helping hand from the Latino community as well as a number of other minority groups — has seen immigration policy jump to the head of the queue of the agenda for Washington next year.
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Under a new treaty Canada will start sharing information that relates to visa applications with the US in order to further North American security. The data sharing deal is an attempt to make certain that the two nations are both secure while also streamlining the passage of both people and goods, with the deal also
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