In case there remained any doubt that the debate over immigration reform would be long and arduous, senators on Tuesday filed no less than 300 amendments to the bipartisan immigration bill crafted by the Gang of Eight.

Some of those amendments have only a tange...

A landmark bill backed by U.S. President Barack Obama to overhaul the nation's immigration system survived unscathed on Thursday during the first day of consideration by a divided Senate Judiciary Committee.

On bipartisan votes, the panel rejected conservatives...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has taken the first vote in this year’s immigration battle, voting to officially bring before the panel the latest version of the bill worked out by the eight senators who have been negotiating for months.

The 14-4 vote saw four R...

In one of their final acts before wrapping up the Colorado legislative session on Wednesday, lawmakers approved a bill allowing immigrants who are in the country illegally to obtain driver’s licenses, making the state one of only a handful to have passed such a measure....

A fresh attempt to curb immigration in the UK is the centre piece of the government's planned new laws, set out by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament.

Access to the NHS will be tightened, landlords forced to check immigration status and illegal migran...

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee this week takes up a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration system, which has bipartisan support but also faces some implacable Republican opposition.

The overhaul, an 844-page bill crafted by a bipartisan group of sen...

The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents "effective immediately" to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is th...

Around 100,000 people were chosen from several million Wednesday to get a head-start on a US Green Card, in what could be the last such annual lottery, slated to vanish under proposed reforms.

Created in 1995, the lottery system leads to the awarding of 50,000...

Washington, DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray is set to introduce legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain D.C. driver’s licenses, following similar moves by Maryland and several other states.

The legislation, according to a Facebook posting Tuesday nig...

Beginning Wednesday May 1, entrants from the 2012 diversity visa (green card) lottery can check on-line at the U.S. State Department’s “Electronic Diversity Visa” Entrant Status Check (ESC) web site to see if they won.

Applicants need three pieces of informatio...

Congressional advocates of comprehensive U.S. immigration legislation were diverted into a sometimes testy debate on Monday over whether the measure should be delayed because of questions arising from the Boston Marathon bombing allegedly carried out by two immigrant brot...

The path to immigration reform in Congress has suddenly become much more complicated now that House lawmakers say they won't accept the sweeping, comprehensive changes that the Senate wants.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said House la...

Colorado is dropping a law that requires police to alert federal authorities about immigrants suspected of living illegally in the United States.

On Friday, Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, signed a bill that repeals the 2006 law. It passed with bipartisan s...

The push for comprehensive immigration legislation faces an uncertain fate in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives even as Senate supporters voiced optimism on Thursday for overwhelming backing in that chamber.

As the Democratic Party-control...

The Oregon Senate approved a proposal on Tuesday to grant short-term driver’s licenses to people living in the country illegally — a turnaround from five years ago when the Legislature passed a law requiring proof of citizenship or lawful residency to obtain the document....

Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico.

The men had health insurance from jobs a...

Tempers flared at a Senate hearing on immigration legislation Monday as a Republican senator objected to a Democrat's criticism of attempts by some to link the Boston Marathon bombings to the immigration bill.

"I never said that! I never said that!" Sen. Chuck...

Black lawmakers and civil rights groups are concerned by a proposal in the Senate’s immigration reform bill that would do away with “diversity” visas that are often a pathway for African and Caribbean immigrants to enter the United States.

Advocates said they h...