Legal immigrants to U.S. face green card logjam
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Following all the rules, Indian national Sanjay Mehta came to the United States on a temporary work visa in 1997, hoping to build a glittering career in the fast-moving information technology sector.
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After decades of being waved through, Americans returning from Mexico are increasingly being checked like foreigners, extending wait times by hours.
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It has emerged as the pariah term in the immigration debate. But here's why legalizing aliens makes sense
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HAMILTON, Ohio  - Miguel Garcia owns a Mexican grocery and would like to open a bakery too, but the illegal immigrant is waiting to see if Congress will pass immigration reform before he invests in a new business.
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Disgruntled green card applicants from India sent hundreds of flowers to the U.S. immigration agency on Tuesday to protest a recent policy flip-flop that hurt their quest for permanent residency.
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BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- China is granting some foreigners permanent residence in the country with a &quot;green card,&quot; a credit card-sized photo ID that was revealed to the public at a press conference here Friday.
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Jason Woodward, 31, a financial analyst in Clarksville, Tenn., says that putting illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship would be issuing a "free pass for lawbreakers" but that an attempt to deport 12 million of them would be "wasting millions of taxpayer dollars."
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Nearly 10,000 foreigners from states sponsoring terrorism have obtained permanent residency in the United States in the past seven years, congressional investigators say.
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Working with illegal immigrants every day in a suburban Atlanta bank, Carlos Carbonell knows exactly where to go to buy a fake green card for his wife. Sometimes he thinks it would be much easier.
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Getting details about immigrants who have died in administrative custody is a difficult undertaking.
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HAMILTON, Ohio  - Miguel Garcia owns a Mexican grocery and would like to open a bakery too, but the illegal immigrant is waiting to see if the U.S. Congress will pass immigration reform before he invests in a new business.
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The placards made clear this was not your typical immigrant rights march: "We played by the rules, now it's your turn," read one. "Legal immigrants keep America competitive," read another.
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The latest fights over immigration have focused on who should get a place in line for a legal life in the United States. But the real agony, says Tien Bui, comes when you finally get in line.
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Visitors to the US who do not need a visa now have to be fingerprinted and photographed on arrival.
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Some businesses and lawmakers are worried that new identification requirements going into effect Thursday at the borders with Canada and Mexico could create widespread confusion and delays and discourage some people from making the trip.
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The reverse journey of the dead suggests that for many Mexicans the sojourn to the United States, legal or not, is meant to be temporary.
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Many illegal immigrants seeking lawful status in the United States would have to leave the country, at least briefly, under legislation being debated in the Senate.