Battered Guatemalan Wife Can Stay in U.S.
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A Guatemalan refugee who is the focus of a long-running debate over asylum for battered women will be allowed to remain in the United States, the Homeland Security Department decided Friday.
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A Cuban father allowed his young daughter to emigrate legally to the United States with her mother to find a better life. But months later, the mother has become incapable of caring for the girl and the father wants to take the child home.
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An immigration activist who took refuge in a church after the government ordered her deported to Mexico said Saturday she will remain holed up there, even though a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on her behalf.
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By Carrie J. Sidener, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 21--A woman convicted of killing her husband will stay out of jail for four months while she undergoes hip surgery.   Campbell County Circuit Court Judge J.S.
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A woman fighting deportation has been told by the Home Secretary she can stay in NI for the next three years.
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Immigration activists around the country are taking up the cause of a single mother who invoked the ancient principle of sanctuary and took refuge in a Chicago church rather than submit to deportation to Mexico.
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Philippine courts granted former first lady Imelda Marcos permission on Thursday to leave the country for 15 days to travel to Hong Kong and China for medical treatment and to attend a trade show.
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A U.S. woman held in jail for seven   months longer than her original sentence because she was too   poor to pay a $705 fine was freed on Wednesday, her attorney   said.
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A ruling allowing a woman to sue her attacker years later could help other victims of sex crimes and abuse.
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Women forced to have abortions can seek asylum in the US with their partners, a California court decides.
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BEIJING, July 4 -- The wife of a blind legal activist, who was jailed after he revealed forced abortions and sterilizations, sneaked out of her house in the eastern province of Shandong and traveled to Beijing on Wednesday to plead her husband's case.
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The conviction of an American citizen on charges of rape and murder, and his subsequent release, has put Nicaraguaâs justice system on trial.
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It was a happy ending for at least one American woman trying to flee the bombardment of Lebanon. After a 10-day ordeal, Laura Gabriel left Friday with something very precious: her newly adopted baby.
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A U.S. citizen who moved to Scotland at the start of the Great Depression said Friday that she could be deported from Britain as an illegal immigrant and was scared of returning to an America she didn't remember.
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PAINESVILLE, Ohio  - Maria de la Luz Bocanegra Velasquez was leaving for work when the U.S. immigration agents surrounded her car.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Since Labor Day weekend, Linda Baker and her 4-year-old daughter have been forced to stay at a Palm Beach County shelter, the victims of a one-two punch...
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Neighbors of Elvira Carvajal sought refuge in her house so immigration agents wouldn't arrest them. Friends of Herman Martinez asked him to bring them milk for their children because they were afraid to step onto the streets.