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March 5th, 2010 |
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Having a citizenship is a privilege granted to US residents. There are many crimes that will void this privilege and lead to deportation.
Legal residency is granted if you win the immigration lottery. Once you are a legal resident you are eligible for applying for citizenship after you have been in the US for a specified number of years.
When an application for citizenship is received by USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services), a background check of every individual is performed. A person’s criminal record if found can and will void the ability to receive citizenship or revoke it if discovered after citizenship is granted.
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There are many crimes that are the list that will cause revocation or denial of citizenship. This decision is based on how serious the crime is. The form provided to apply for citizenship has a section for declaring any crimes or convictions from the past. There are several crimes that will determine whether you become a US citizen or not.
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March 3rd, 2010 |
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The Green Card Lottery for 2010 is known as the American Green Card Lottery DV-2012. Applicants who wish to enter can complete the form any time online from October 2, 2010 through November 30 US Eastern time. The actual dates will be specified by the Department of State
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Qualifications to Apply
There are several requirements that must be met in order to qualify for the Green Card Visa Lottery. The person who is applying must be a resident born in any one of the qualifying countries. If you are from a country that is not eligible but you are married to an individual who is from an eligible country you may qualify using his or her birth country if you both hold visas and come the United States together.
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January 8th, 2010 |
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A new immigration bill, tabled on December 15th 2009 by Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, seeks to offer pardon to all illegal immigrants in the U.S for a $500 fine and an English language test. The bill, if passed, could have far-reaching consequences on the demographics and politics of America, nay the whole world.
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The bill has been pushed by Gutierrez, who is an ardent Democrat and a strong Latino aide of Obama. It remains to be seen as to how the bill goes down with the common man on the streets because if the bill does ever become law, there will be a sudden spurt in the number of people who can legally compete for a job and in these times of joblessness, many people consider the thought a very uncomfortable one.
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October 8th, 2009 |
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It is the time of the year for the biggest annual lottery out there when millions of people across the globe try their luck for a U.S green card. The 2011 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2011) is now open. The time period for submitting entries for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa lottery is between October 2, to November 30, 2009. The entries have to be submitted electronically. Paper entries are not allowed.
Although this is a lottery, as an applicant you have to put your best foot forward to maximize your chances of getting selected for a permanent residence green card. Up to 55,000 visas will be issued for the year 2011 and the winning applicants will be selected randomly.
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July 26th, 2009 |
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The federal government is cracking down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants and they are auditing employer’s I-9s and paperwork to find violations. In fact, they notified nearly 1,000 businesses across the nation that their records will be audited, and also warned the companies of the stiff penalties if they did not fix the problems.
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The Obama Administration doesn’t want immigration officials to “storm businesses” while people are working. Rather they would like to look at all the records. For those business owners with a history of violating these laws they can expect stiff criminal penalties.
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May 19th, 2009 |
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While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. Mr. Obama will frame the new effort — likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue — as “policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system,” said the official, Cecilia Muñoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.
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Mr. Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration groups, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.
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February 17th, 2009 |
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Sweet Chilli Sauce… Delicious, especially with sour cream and wedges. But apparently this delicious combination hasn’t caught on in America, so it’s hard to find. But on the extremely off chance that someone Googles “Where can I find sweet chilli sauce in Boston”, here ’tis.
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Sweet chilli sauce can be found in the Asian “world” section at the Shaw’s next to the prudential center. (Sorry for the Americanization (sorry for that one too.)
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January 27th, 2009 |
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Yes, they are important to our future!
Many of tomorrow’s workers and business owners are the children of today’s
immigrants. More than 40% of the growth of our labor force in the late 1990s was
due to immigrants, and since immigration WILL continue, they are important to our
future growth.
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A concern is certainly that many of today’s Hispanic/Latino immigrants are
uneducated and unskilled: this could mean that their children will not fit into our
knowledge-based and high-tech economy.
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January 13th, 2009 |
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In the last two decades or so, Mexican immigration has been a very hot topic in the United States. There have been alarmist cries that the Mexicans are flooding the southern U.S. border and taking away jobs from people in the United States. But in all honest, the discussion about Mexican immigrants has been filled with emotions, rhetoric, and misinformation.
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What really is the accurate information regarding Mexican immigration, both legal and illegal, to the United States? The truth of the matter is that the United States public has incorrect information about the Mexican immigration debate.
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January 5th, 2009 |
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The results of elections 2008 are good news for immigration reform. It’s not just the election of Barack Obama, say advocates. From the Senate to Congress, immigration failed as a wedge issue. And some anti-immigrant candidates have lost their seats.
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Representatives of immigration rights groups recently weighed in on the elections during an Access Washington call organized by New America Media. They discussed how the ethnic vote swayed the presidential and congressional races in battleground states and why they perceive the changing landscape of the U.S. government as a victory for immigration reform supporters.
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