A federal immigration judge yesterday granted Onyango “Omar” Obama, the uncle of President Barack Obama, permission to stay in the United States, after a hearing in which the 69-year-old Kenyan, who has resided in the US for around 50 years, invoked the name of the President no less than six times. The ruling was issued […]
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Legislation for overhauling the immigration system in the United States has been dormant for some months now in the House of Representatives, but behind the scenes a handful of Republicans are working to advance the cause even while the Capitol argues over healthcare and government spending. Bob Goodlatte, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, has been
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Two key players in the bipartisan group supposedly working on an immigration reform plan for the House of Representatives have apparently backed away from the last round of negotiation, declaring that they are no longer able to back any reforms due to a lack of trust in President Barack Obama. John Carter and Sam Johnson,
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Immigrants who are talented enough to get any kind of job they would want, but whose legal status in the United States is preventing them from working with the best employers, are choosing to start their own companies because they lack the documents needed to work for American firms, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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The online pro-immigration pressure group FWD.us, which was co-founded by the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has staged a Day of Action in order to exert pressure on members of the House of Representatives to give their support to immigration reform legislation in the fall. Zuckerberg founded FWD.us along with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the
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The ruling made by the Supreme Court earlier in the summer that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act as being unconstitutional has opened a number of new doors for same-sex couples in the United States. The legislation being overturned is seen as an enormous victory for the lesbian and gay communities and same-sex couples
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Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican Representative, met with some of his constituents during a Town Hall meeting that was held in August County in order to talk about the issue of immigration reform. The Hill reports that the meeting was attended by immigration advocates who asked the representative questions in regards to his opposition to
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July marked the very first time in the entire history of the United States that the visa applications of same-sex couples began to be treated in the exact same manner as those of heterosexual couples. In the same month, Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security Secretary, also made the announcement that the organization was to start
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Approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants stand a chance of gaining US citizenship following last week’s landmark approval of the immigration reform bill by the US Senate, but while that may be good news for the estimated 250,000 illegal Indian immigrants in the country, the clauses that relate to non-immigrant visas are generating concern for Indian
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Senator John Cornyn has strongly defended allegations that his RESULTS amendment amounts to a “poison pill” on the floor of the Senate, insisting that increased border control is an essential condition to bringing to a close what he described as a “credibility gap” in Washington’s plans for immigration reform. Cornyn joined Utah Republican Senator Mike
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The US Department of State is starting to make it a much simpler process for people to get hold of a passport in order to go traveling during the summer season. Services are being speeded up in order to enable families and students to travel overseas, with passports being delivered within a period of between
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