U.S. Suspends Deportations to Sri Lanka
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The U.S. government has temporarily stopped deporting people to Sri Lanka and Maldives, two of the countries devastated by the tsunami disaster.
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Congress is moving to postpone until June 2009 requiring passports for land and sea travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean after complaints about vacation-ruining delays by the State Department in issuing them.
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The United States has canceled the visas of 22 Costa Rican immigration officials suspected of selling visa stamps so that Costa Ricans could stay illegally in the U.S. without getting caught, the two countries said Wednesday.
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The U.S. Embassy on Friday denied that Haiti's government was threatened with the suspension of aid and travel visas if it tried to block the United States from deporting convicted Haitian criminals back to their homeland.
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The U.S. Peace Corps said Tuesday it had temporarily suspended its operations in Kenya following weeks of violence over a disputed election.
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The U.S. and British embassies suspended operations Monday in Baku, where the government said it thwarted a radical Islamic group's plot to conduct a "large-scale horrifying terror attack" against diplomatic missions and government buildings.
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Sri Lanka's government said it pushed   Tamil Tiger rebels from the mouth of strategic Trincomalee   harbor in the island's restive northeast on Monday, and that it   would therefore halt its offensive.
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Sri Lanka has asked peace broker Norway to suspend contacts with the island's Tamil Tiger rebels pending a review of relations with the guerrillas, a top Sri Lankan official said.
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Faced with long delays in issuing passports, the government today postponed an impending requirement that most Americans returning to the United States by land or sea show a U.S. passport.
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NEW YORK -- The state Department of Motor Vehicles may suspend the driver&#39;s licenses of up to 300,000 people, many of whom are illegal immigrants, because their Social Security numbers couldn&#39;t be verified, the DMV commissioner testified ...
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The US State Department announced it has authorized the departure of non-emergency personnel and family members of the US Embassy in Nepal's capital and suspended Peace Corps aid work in the country due to security concerns.
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NEW YORK -- New York state may suspend driver&#39;s licenses for up to 300,000 people, including many undocumented immigrants, because their Social Security numbers could not be verified, a top New York state official said Thursday.
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The UN warns it may suspend aid operations in Sri Lanka after the military are accused of killing 17 aid workers.
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Parliament defused a 24-hour constitutional crisis Thursday by halting the deportation of rejected asylum seekers and stripping the hard-line immigration minister of responsibility for most immigration policy.Comment
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A US federal court halts proceedings at Guantanamo Bay against a former driver for Osama Bin Laden.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s tour of New Zealand has finally been postponed to allow the tourists to return home after both countries&#39; cricket boards agreed to reschedule the series.
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In coordination with the recent decision by the European Union to restrict issuance of visas to Belarusian officials implicated in election fraud and other human rights abuses, the United States will take steps ...