Sentences with phrase «at an immigration system»

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At the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, he continued to define his agenda by focusing on fixing the immigration system and education.

«Education and health systems are already overloaded,» said Steven Camarota, director of research at the conservative Center for Immigration Studies.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

Officials at the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services maintain that the new phone system is working «quite well» and that the agency's monthly customer - service surveys show an average 80 percent satisfaction rate, spokesman Russ Knocke said.

Telephone operators at the service center have been unable to provide meaningful assistance and in some cases have provided wrong information, leading to delays and rejections of applications, said legal specialists at the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and ImmigratioImmigration Lawyers Association in Washington, D.C. «The system is utterly inadequate for problem resolution,» said Bob Deasy, who leads a liaison group that links the immigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigratioimmigration lawyers» group and the Bureau of Citizenship and ImmigrationImmigration Services.

Modifying the system to add exit checks by CBP officers would require a good deal of construction at most of the country's international airports, as well as a significant increase in the size of CBP's force of immigration inspectors.

In fourth place is an anonymous account from a guard in an immigration detention centre who explained why working in a system which detains people who have never committed a crime, keeps him up at night.

Children addressing their immigration claims on their own are at a particular disadvantage as the laws, processes and systems governing their circumstances are profoundly complex.

At the Foreign Press Association's annual awards ceremony, London's mayor congratulated the assembled ranks of international correspondents for circumventing Britain's «crazy immigration system» to work here.

«We've struck a balance and we've seen the numbers on that and also not contributing needlessly to the separation of families or to feeding into, sort of as a feeder into this broken immigration system... so I'm comfortable with where we're at,» Mark - Viverito continued.

In a statement, Yow said over the last 12 years, Ragbir's immigration case has undergone extensive judicial review at multiple levels of the country's judicial system.

Gibson called the immigration system «broken,» and said «we are at once a nation of laws and immigrants.»

Five thousand new staff at our borders, new agencies for customs and immigration, new IT systems (and all the government procurement problems that entails) as well as the road capacity to deal with parked lorries on the way to Dover and the Channel Tunnel.

President - elect Donald Trump, in a free - flowing speech last night at a dinner honoring his running mate, Mike Pence, jabbed at his new Republican allies and his critics alike, questioned the ethics of «super PACs» and talked about creating a «merit - based» immigration system.

Speaking in Somerset yesterday, David Cameron said: «It's a simple and straight choice, at your county council and at the next election, between the blue team who want to keep getting the deficit down, who want to keep reforming immigration and welfare to make it fair, or you have the red team who put the deficit up and who don't care if our immigration and welfare system works at all.»

Speaking at the London School of Economics, the home secretary set out how the points - based immigration system will take effect in 100 days time.

Claudia Calhoon, director of health advocacy at the New York Immigration Coalition said, «The take home is really that given how tough it is for you and me to understand, you can imagine how this is for an immigrant with low - English proficiency, who may be new to navigating the U.S. healthcare system.»

Confidence in the immigration system is low and has been for some time and the British public have consistently shown a desire to see net migration at far lower levels than we are currently seeing.

The system as it stands allows for a person to apply for leave to enter the UK as a spouse, and then apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain after two years and only meet an Immigration official once they enter the country at a port, by which time the visa has already been granted and it is too late.

«I think if you look at the debate last night, there is just a gulf between what David Cameron stands for and what I stand for — in terms of values, in terms of internationalism, in terms of fairness, in terms of progressive tax reform, in terms of political reform, in terms of simply living in denial, as does Labour, about a major problem of their creation in the immigration system.»

Asked after the speech, at the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank in London, how she envisaged balancing her hope for what she called an «enabling» immigration system with some voters» concerns on new arrivals, Abbott said it was vital to accentuate the positives.

Sophie Feal, who directs the immigration program at the Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, says attempting to move on millions more cases, in addition to acting on existing backlogged cases, would only further stall an already strained system.

An article on the Web site of the American Immigration Law Foundation describes the experiences of Imad Daou, also from Lebanon, a young computer specialist who came to the U.S. to study information systems at Texas A&M University.

Working abroad means confronting a country's immigration system, and this often comes with at least a little bureaucracy.

In The BMJ this week, experts say the system of mental health care at UK immigration centers is broken and they call on NHS England to ensure that detainees are screened for mental health problems and that facilities maintain the standards of care expected of the NHS.

These include an endlessly forgiving higher education system; the presence within the U.S. of most of the world's top universities; huge efforts at research and development; a hard - working populace and an adaptable immigration policy; a society that encourages second chances and invites new ideas; and the world's largest and best - functioning free - market economy.

Meaningful and challenging assignments at the elementary level about democracy, immigration, free trade and our judicial system.

National: The New York Times Magazine takes a deep look at what it's like to go through the «purgatory» of the immigration detention system.

In this era of a new administration in Washington that has espoused many viewpoints fundamentally at odds with the values held by the vast majority of Californians, we look forward to working with you to ensure that California's public school system, including its vibrant charter school sector, continues to ensure that absolutely all students regardless of immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, faith, or disability may access high quality public school options.

Ms. Roat served 10 years at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joining in June 2004, first serving at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), where she was Deputy Director, Technology Development, 2005 - 2006, for TSA's Secure Flight Program, then as the Program Manager for the Fraud Detection and National Security System, and then Chief of Staff, Office of Information Technology (OIT), within the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, where she managed OIT operations and administration, in addition to holding responsibility as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with oversight of all aspects of USCIS» Information Security Program.

More recently, the queue system at immigrations was enhanced to make it faster and more efficient and free Wi - Fi access was provided throughout the terminal.

Today's review is from Matthew Harrison Tedford, who offers an assessment of the exhibition at Galería de la Raza in San Francisco: «At a time when the U.S. political system is failing to address immigration and when millions of American families risk being uprooted, Carving Through Borders offered a much - needed platform for conversation.&raquat Galería de la Raza in San Francisco: «At a time when the U.S. political system is failing to address immigration and when millions of American families risk being uprooted, Carving Through Borders offered a much - needed platform for conversation.&raquAt a time when the U.S. political system is failing to address immigration and when millions of American families risk being uprooted, Carving Through Borders offered a much - needed platform for conversation.»

The other feature is the way those at the top are always changing things and equally blindly destroying certainty (so that is also unattainable in this area whatever the criteria) while, apart from the police, Centrelink and possibly immigration, those at the bottom help the public survive by working the system.

At present it is too early to say what the new system will look like but it is increasingly looking like a softer Brexit which means less immigration control than initially envisaged by Theresa May which is better for business especially small companies.

Prior to joining the ILRC, Lena was a Soros Justice Fellow at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, where she supported local campaigns against ICE detainers, provided training and education on the detention and deportation system, and litigated constitutional rights cases related to ICE enforcement.

(i) is submitted in support of, and at the time the application is made; (ii) relates to grounds of appeal other than those mentioned above; (iii) is adduced to prove that a document is genuine or valid; or (iv) is adduced in connection with the exercise of discretion under the immigration rules to refuse the application on grounds not related to the acquisition of points under the points - based system.

Metcalf interviewed immigration judges across the country in writing «Courting Disaster: Absent attendance and absent enforcement in America's immigration courts ``: «They described a system plunged into turmoil by appointees at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security who ignored statutes, precedent, and regulation and imposed policies that dramatically increased backlogs and nearly halted adjudication.

At Barth Law Firm, P.S.C., we take pride in clearly and efficiently guiding clients through the complexities of the U.S. immigration system.

Canada's immigration system is bursting at the seams.

Alan Macek, an intellectual property lawyer at Dimock Stratton LLP, points out that the federal courts also hear immigration and citizenship cases where the tariff - based system offers predictable costs for individual litigants and improves access to justice.

Shahram Taghavi, head of immigration at Charles Russell, who acted for Dr Zhang, said the decision means resident family members of investors, entrepreneurs and skilled workers will be able to switch from their current visa into a «Dependant of a Points - Based System Migrant» visa from within the UK, rather than having to leave the UK and apply from abroad.

Unless there are transitional arrangements in place from the Government, which is not clear at this stage, current EU workers in the UK will now need to fall under UK immigration rules and the UK's Points Based system.

«I've been practising in this area for a long time,» says Jackman, but it wasn't until she assisted in Ogiamien v. Ontario, 2016 ONSC 3080 — a case involving two inmates, one of them an immigration detainee since 2013, who successfully argued that their Charter rights were violated by lockdowns at a Milton jail last year — that she realized «there's no structure to the detention system.

I question the private sector's (at large) involvement in the immigration system.

Staff who are skilled at working with attorneys, the court system, birth parents, Citizenshipand Immigration Services and domestic and international child - placing agencies in order to ensure that children are provided with loving homes