After over two months of negotiations, the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators will tomorrow be unveiling their sweeping proposal to massively alter the immigration laws in the United States for the very first time in a generation. The senators involved have started moving to the airwaves as of yesterday in order to start selling the […]
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DreamLife, which gained the dubious honor of becoming the very first EB-5 project to be cancelled for “material misreprentations” in its original agreement with the state by the Agency for Commerce and Community Development, has asked to be able to meet with Lawrence Miller, the Secretary of Commerce, to review their formal response to the
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SEIU, otherwise known as the Service Employees International Union, yesterday launched an advertising campaign on television worth more than $300,000 that calls on Congress to rebuild the US immigration system so that it pays tribute to American values, supports working families and strengthens the economy. The union has come up with the advertising campaign in
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Senators trying to come up with a bill for overhauling the immigration laws in the United States are currently in the midst of debating the two waiting periods that immigrants have to endure before they can gain permanent US citizenship. The New York Times says that the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in
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Almost two thirds of the permanent legal immigrations to the United States are based around family ties, with just 15 percent based around employment. However, the coming immigration bill could be about to change all that. The Associated Press is claiming that Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a part of the bipartisan ‘Gang of Eight’
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The US Citizenship and Immigration Services started accepting applications for the brand new Form I-601A, which is the Application for Waiver on Grounds of Inadmissibility, two days ago on Monday 4 March 2013. The form intends to cut down on the length of time that families are forced to be separated from each other as
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On the 2nd January this year Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security, announced the Federal Register’s final rule to cut down on the amount of time that US citizens would be forced to spend separated from members of their family who are engaged in the task of attempting to gain permanent legal status. That
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On the 29th January US President Barack Obama called on Congress to come up with the creation of a brand new visa category for those immigrants who successfully launch start-up companies. Just a few days before Obama’s speech Canadian officials made the announcement that they had created a fully comprehensive start-up visa program that would
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Following the announcement of the proposal for US immigration reform that is being worked on by a bipartisan group of senators, a number of key principles are beginning to gain traction as possibly large contributions to the economy of the United States. The idea of rewarding foreign students who graduate from US universities with a
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US President Barack Obama has put his support behind a proposal from a bipartisan group of senators to have the country’s immigration laws reformed, something that is also being regarded in a positive light by many Chinese people who live in the United States. In a speech which he made to a Las Vegas high
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United Arab Emirates citizens who are able to invest a minimum of $500,000 in a company without having to borrow any funds to do so might be able to secure an EB-5 visa, an investor class of the US green card. Phoenix Fox News affiliate KSAZ says that the Immigrant Investor Program of the US
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