IMMIGRATION NEWS

In the first 3 months of 2017, the US government deported a total of 1,200 Africans, with most of these immigrants being nationals of Ghana, Nigeria, Somali, and Kenya. The data, gathered by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, suggests that if the current trend…

The police department of Howard County, Maryland has put out a directive clarifying that the county police will not enforce federal immigration laws. The directive, meant to ease the public’s, especially foreign-born, interaction with the county police, says that police will not ask about anyone’s…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday night signed into law a highly controversial bill that gives local police powers to enforce federal immigration laws, including the power to inquire about the immigration status of anyone arrested, detained or stopped for routine minor traffic violations.…

The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a highly controversial bill that gives local police departments the power to inquire about the immigration status of anyone they arrest or detain, including people pulled over by police for minor traffic violations. Senate Bill 4 also punishes police departments…

The results of the American Green Card Lottery for the fiscal year 2018 (Diversity Visa 2018) are now available online. The Entrant Status Check opened on Tuesday, May 2nd and will remain open until September 30th, 2017. Those who filed for the lottery online between October 4th and November 7th,…

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Monday, May 1st began issuing newly re-designed tamper-proof Permanent Resident Cards (Green Cards). The new cards “use enhanced graphics and fraud-resistant security features to create cards that are highly secure and more tamper-…

The Canadian government is launching a new program to help Canadian companies recruit skilled workers abroad. The Global Skills Strategy will be launched on June 12, 107 and will speed up visa processing for companies to bring in specialized professionals from foreign countries in occupations that…

A federal judge in San Francisco, California on Tuesday temporarily blocked parts of an immigration executive order signed by President Donald Trump in January that would withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities. Judge William Orrick III of the United States District Court for the…

U.S. President Donald Trump has assured immigrants brought illegally into the US as children to “rest easy” without fear of being targeted for deportation by his administration. In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Trump his administration’s top priority for deportation is…

The Australian government has unveiled new rules that will make it much harder to become a naturalized citizen of the country if adopted. Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull on Thursday proposed the new measures, which include having would-be citizens to live in the country for at least four years…