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As recently reported by Dawn Rhodes of the Chicago Tribune, 28-year-old Nigerian Eugene Peba is facing deportation and will try to persuade immigration officials to release him from a Wisconsin detention center following his arrest last week. Peba, who has been seeking political asylum since 2005 out of a fear of death if he were [...]
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Families Of Immigrants To Get Help From Obama Administration
CBS News is reporting The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status, and possible Green Cards, in the United States, a senior administration official said. Currently, illegal immigrants must leave the country before they [...]
Chicago Congressman Writes Article About Immigration
Rep. Luis Gutierrez the Congressman Representing Illinois’ 4th District in Chicago, wrote this interesting op-ed piece about tough new Immigration laws, and the injustices that seems to be popping up in some states including Alabama, for the Huffington Post: A young mother in Alabama, 19, was driving down the street with her infant son [...]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Follows Chicago Lead With Hotline
The Huffington Post ran this report about a new hotline that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has launched a hotline to ensure that individuals being held by state or local law enforcement on immigration detainers are properly notified about their potential removal from the country and are made aware of their rights The 24-hour, [...]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wants City to Be a Beacon for Immigrants
Fox News Latino reports that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has given a mission to Adolfo Hernandez to make Chicago the most welcoming city in the world for immigrants. Hernandez, 29, is the son of Mexican Migrants and he will head the Chicago Office of New Americans. Hernandez was interviewed in the report. I’ve already been on [...]
Archbishop of Chicago Says it is “Immoral” to Deport Illegal Immigrants
Cardinal Francis George has said that deporting illegal immigrants who have lived in the US for a long time is immoral, MyFoxChicago.com reports after they conducted an interview with him. The Archbishop of Chicago also said that President Obama has a record number of deportations and ripped the rhetoric of some Republicans, such as presidential candidate [...]
Immigration Rights Groups Banding Together
Website RedeyeChicago.com ran an article about Immigrant Rights groups banding together to put an end to the separation of families through deportation and detention. Irma Herrera, of New America Media, addressed the issue in a conference call requesting an end to deportations that sent undocumented immigrant parents out of the country or detained them while [...]
New lawsuit shines light on immigration lawyer fraud
Two lawsuits filed in Superior Court allege immigration lawyer fraud. We have written extensively about immigration fraud perpetrated by Immigration Consultants. Sadly, now it’s the immigration lawyer’s turn. According to two lawsuits filed in San Francisco Superior Court this week, an immigration lawyer defrauded thousands of people looking for a better life in the United [...]
Immigrant investor applications to be accepted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada
On December 1, 2010, applications for the federal Immigration Investor Program will be accepted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The program was suspended in June 2010 because of a backlog in applications, as well as to prevent a spike in applications after recent changes were made. New qualifications for Immigrant investor applications [...] Visaplace.com Canada [...]
Spousal Sponsorship “Marriage of Convenience” issues continued…
As part of our ongoing reporting on the Canadian government’s crackdown on “Marriage of Convenience” cases for Spousal Sponsorship, here are the latest developments. In early November a woman in British Columbia was arrested on bigamy charges for being legally married to two people at once in different cities in order to sponsor two different [...]
Study says immigrants vital to Canada’s growth
A study released by the Conference Board of Canada this week has found that immigration is vital to Canada. The 60-page report was just released and is expected to inform both the Canadian government and Canadian businesses on the value of immigration. The Conference Board of Canada is a not-for-profit independent research organization that releases [...]
Canadian government targets higher immigrant numbers for 2011
The Government of Canada announced its plans for immigration in 2011 at the beginning of this month when it tabled its annual plan in Parliament, which is typically done before November 1st every year. Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenny said in a media release that, “Canada’s post-recession economy demands a high level of [...]
Defense of Marriage Act deports same-sex immigrants in US
The United States 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) identifies marriage as only being between a man and a woman under federal law. This means that in the case of immigration law, which is a federal matter, same sex couples who are legally married in states where gay marriage is legal are still subject to [...]
Spousal Sponsorship Meeting on “Marriages of Convenience” for Preventing Sponsorship Fraud
Over Halloween weekend, Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney hosted a meeting in Montreal to discuss preventing “marriages of convenience” for immigration reasons in Canada. The meeting was the third such meeting on immigration held by the Minister, who has been meeting with various communities across Canada throughout the month to discuss [...]
Spousal Sponsorship gone Bad: Family and Immigration law don’t always see “eye to eye”
CBC reported last week that a Canadian man who was married to a Ukrainian woman for a short time now wants her deported. He still pays spousal support for the woman, who he met through a dating website. He applied for a visitor’s visa (temporary resident visa) on her behalf, and married her shortly after [...]
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