US President Obama’s Deferred Deportation Program is set to commence in less than one week, however, the US Department for Homeland Security (DHS) has not issued the prescribed application forms for the eligible undocumented immigrants raising the possibility of scams. Potential undocumented immigrants are being warned to avoid applying for the program before 15th of [...]
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A non-profit organization in the United States, called the Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) have decided to launch a project that would enable them to study the impact of the immigration policies on the country’s environment. The project, called Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), was announced on August 3rd, 2012. The project will also suggest possible [...]
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Citizenship and Immigration Canada had shut down most of its regional offices throughout Canada to cut government spending and as a result most applicants are unable to find information regarding the status of their applications and running CIC processing offices are experiencing a major backlog of applications due to a resulting pile up of cases. [...]
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The Australian immigration is once again under pressure from the increasing number of asylum seekers entering the country, as one of its recently opened asylum detention centers nearly reached full capacity last week. Built just six weeks before, the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Center outside the town of Northam 90 km from Perth has nearly [...]
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The U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is being asked by the Human Rights First (HRF) to come up to its commitments of making comprehensive reforms in the immigration detention system of United States, accusing the agency of delaying the change by three years. HRF, on Monday August 6th, 2012, said that the agency had [...]
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New Zealand’s Immigration Department is being requested by a Geospatial Industry association to make the Geospatial Information System (GIS) skills part of the immigration skill occupational shortage list. Earlier this month, Spatial Industry Business Association (SIBA) representatives had finalized and presented the case of GIS skill shortage to the Immigration Department of the Ministry of [...]
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US Immigration Authorities arrested the CEO of a University in Silicon Valley area on charges of visa fraud, on Thursday August 2nd, 2012. Jerry Wang, the CEO of Sunnyvale’s Herguan University, was arrested on multiple charges including visa fraud by the federal authorities in a raid at his home in the Santa Clara. The charges [...]
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a set of guidelines for potential deferred deportation applicants to follow when they apply for the program. The guidelines, released this Friday August 3rd, 2012, will help the young illegal immigrants in the application procedure on August 15th, 2012, when the program commences. The announcements provided [...]
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A recent study conducted by the Immigration Policy Center, an advocacy and research group based in Washington D.C, said that the Bay Area may contain one of the largest numbers of illegal immigrants who might benefit from the new Obama Young illegal immigrant law. According to the research, more than 65,000 young illegal immigrants, including [...]
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The Australian immigration minister Chris Bowen stated that thousands of immigrant workers will be able to work on a total of 50 projects in Western Australia and Queensland, in a mining industry conference on labour yesterday, August 2nd, 2012. The minister said that the Australian Immigration department and the Government have made the ‘Enterprise Migration [...]
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