Sentences with phrase «granted permanent residency»

Most importantly, we believe these workers should be granted permanent residency and eventually citizenship.

Ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed failed this weekend to prevent the Daily Mail reporting that he had been granted permanent residency in Britain.

In the early 1960s, Kusama began seeking permanent resident status in the United States and with the help of friends like Judd, she was granted permanent residency in 1963.

He came to Washington, D.C. four years later in 1999, was granted permanent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit in 2003, and became a citizen in 2010.

That sudden growth was fueled by a wave of Chinese students who were granted permanent residency status in the United States after the 1989 pro-democracy movement was crushed.SOURCE: CPST / NSF

Update (June 11): The Christian Broadcasting Network reports that Sweden has granted permanent residency to one Iranian Christian, Reza Jabbari, who previously was ordered to return to his home country — where he would face «possible prison and torture» for converting from Islam.

He applied via the Federal Immigrant Investor Program, a scheme granting permanent residency in return for a tax - free loan to the government.

The proposed Senate bill would grant temporary visas valid for three years, unlike Canada, which would grant permanent residency.

It would have held constant the total number of legal immigrants by eliminating another visa program that grants permanent residency to 50,000 applicants a year on the basis of a lottery.

He has added provisions to his «human capital» plank that would raise existing caps on visas given to highly skilled workers, as well as grant permanent residency to graduates with advanced degrees in math, science and engineering.

Instead, the group says, the United States should downplay temporary visas in favor of granting permanent residency (so - called green cards) to highly skilled workers.

The only appropriate course of action is to grant permanent residency status to all workers upon arrival.

Closing off the TFW program and granting permanent residency to the workers already here, will re-establish balance and fairness in the Canadian labour market.

Not exact matches

So - called nonimmigrant visas grant temporary authorization and are not a conduit to permanent residency.

His luck ran out early one Saturday morning in November 2000 — just 6 months after receiving a so - called green card that granted him 10 years of permanent residency status in the United States.

2014 — PUBLIC ART COMMISSION: CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY, PERMANENT INSTALLATION FOR 35TH / WHITE SOX CTA STATION 2014 — RESIDENCY, DESIGN FABRICATION, ÍFRANS MAYER, MUNICH, GERMANY, 2014 2014 — NOMINATION 3 - ARTS AWARD 2011 — VISITING ARTIST, TEACHER INSTITUTE IN CONTEMPORARY ART, SAIC, NEA 2010 — GRANT: ARTIST PROJECT IN VISUAL ARTS, ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL 2009 — NEW AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO 2009 — THE DRAWING CENTER VIEWING PROGRAM, CURATED ARTIST REGISTRY, NEW YORK, NY 2008 — CATWALK, NY ARTIST RESIDENCY, SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO 2004 — POST - MFA FELLOWSHIP, VISITING LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 1998 — HONORABLE MENTION AWARD / STATE LINE EXHIBITION / ROCKFORD MUSEUM, ILLINOIS 1996/1997 — ARTS MIDWEST / REGIONAL NEA VISUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIP AWARD (PAINTING) 1990 — ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL: SPECIAL ASSISTANCE GRANT / NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY EXHIBIT 1987 — ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL: SPECIAL ASSISTANCE GRANT / CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER EXHIBIT

Kelley's awards and honors include Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome (2011 - 12); Faculty Development Grants from Skidmore College and St. Mary's College of Maryland (2007 - 09); Jerome Foundation Travel / Study Grant (2004); Finalist, Bush Foundation Artist Fellows Program (2004); Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado (2003); McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship for Photographers (2001 - 02); and Jerome Foundation and Forecast Public Artworks commission, permanent installation in the Open Book building, Minneapolis (2000).

She has been an artist - in - residence at Halka Sanat in Istanbul and the Babyan Culture House in Ibrahimpasa, Turkey, and will spend the next six months creating permanent works for six fire stations as the recipient of the AFD Residency Grant through Austin's Art in Public Places program.

Moreover, their mothers — who were their custodians — already had permanent residency and thus, the failure to grant residence permits to the step - fathers would not have compelled the Union citizens to leave.

The residency status of the children was granted as dependents of their permanent resident father, who died late last year.

Immediately ends long delays in processing permanent residency applications for migrant caregivers, provides open work permits to all migrant workers, and grants them permanent residence and access to support services in Canada.

Both of these bills will grant TPS beneficiaries from all 13 participating countries access to legal permanent residency.»