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Chinese investors 'buying' US green cards for $1m

BBC
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
National News

China City - A perfect storm EB-5 proposal in upstate New York

Center for Immigration Studies
Monday, December 16, 2013
Our American Future

The latest EB-5 investor visa controversy is based on the idea of building an all-Chinese residential and commercial development, China City of America (CCOA), about a 90-minute drive northwest of New York City at the southern edge of the Catskill Mountains.

Temporary U.S. immigration status urged for Filipinos after typhoon, including those already here illegally

Prior temporary legal status recipients, even from 1991, stiil have current 'temporary' visa extensions today
The Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
National News

Advocates are putting pressure on the U.S. government to grant temporary refuge to Philippine nationals because of Typhoon Haiyan.

H-1B visas may still harm U.S. workers

Hartford Sentinal
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Our American Future

No American immigration program draws as mixed reviews as the H-1B plan that allows U.S. companies to import foreign workers [purportedly] when there are no qualified Americans available to do the same jobs.

House Republicans Work Immigration Behind Scenes

The issue is a top second-term goal for Obama
ABC News
Monday, September 30, 2013
National News

Immigration overhaul legislation has been dormant in the House for months, but a few Republicans are working behind the scenes to advance it at a time the Capitol is immersed in a partisan brawl over government spending and President Barack Obama's health care law.

Multi-million dollar Vietnam visa scam tied to Colorado-told its easy to overstay their visas & disappear into the United States.

CO College Grad behind scheme "Concern is terrorism"-recruited customers who could not legally enter the U.S.
9 News
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Colorado News

Federal prosecutors call it a multi-million dollar global scheme with strong ties to Colorado.

A University of Denver graduate is in federal custody, accused of helping hundreds of Vietnamese citizens enter the United States illegally ...

Under President Obama, same-sex spouses now allowed to apply for U.S. visas

John Kerry makes announcement from London
Los Angeles Times
Friday, August 2, 2013
National News
Spouses in same-sex marriages will be given the same preferential consideration in their visa applications now enjoyed by those in opposite-sex marriages, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Friday.
 

Homeland Security loses track of 1 million foreigners; report could hurt immigration deal

Washington Post
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
National News

The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won’t meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system...

Obama's Homeland Security No. 2 official is under investigation re company that provides U.S. visas for foreign investors

Company is run by Hillary Clinton's brother
NBC News
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
National News

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