Sentences with phrase «green cards»

Your father is responsible for two senior citizens with green cards being illegally detained at O'Hare for 10 hours.Have fun!

On 1 February, the White House said that the order did not apply to people from those countries who hold US permanent - resident visas, or green cards.

Under the new regulation, awardees in an additional 55 programs will now be eligible to obtain permanent resident permits, or so - called Chinese green cards.

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 report outlines the opportunities as well as the obligations that the federal health reform law will bring to lawfully present immigrants, people who have obtained green cards or visas allowing them to work, live and study in the United States.

Earlier, this story was updated with White House officials» comments on green cards, and to clarify Wael Al - Delaimy's research and Hananeh Esmailbeigi's reaction to events.

Several recent legislative proposals — including the recent «Gang of Eight» proposal in the United States Senate — aim to meet this perceived need by raising the cap on available H - 1B visas and making it much easier for foreign workers with STEM degrees to receive green cards.

Among the policy prescriptions outlined are expanding the number of green cards available to science students — to discourage U.S. - educated scientists from returning to their home countries and contributing to their development — and ensuring that «top U.S. officials from all agencies» push China «toward becoming a self - innovating country.»

Siegel says that her firm received over 20 000 inquiries in response to its 12 April ad, which offered help in entering a forthcoming lottery for the «green cards» which foreigners must have before they can live and work permanently in the US.

The requests are one key initial stage in the granting of most employment - based green cards.

It also includes a faint watermark that combines the seals of the Department of Justice, which previously issued green cards, and the Department of Homeland Security, which started issuing green cards in 2003.

«Throughout the process, we worked with members from across the aisle to make changes, including adding a provision that allowed spouses and minor children of legal permanent residents to come to the U.S. after waiting one year for their green cards.

Immigration scholar and computer science professor Norman Matloff recommends, in an article at Bloomberg, that, «Rather than offering work visas and green cards to all foreign students attaining U.S. postgraduate degrees, legislation should focus on facilitating the immigration of top talent.»

The committee assembled a panel of expert witnesses — tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa of San Francisco, California; demographics researcher Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City; and Puneet Arora of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is vice-president of the nonprofit organization Immigration Voice — to discuss so - called high - skill immigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and technical work.

(Many H - 1B holders end up qualifying for green cards.)

Both the White House and Senate proposals contain provisions that would grant green cards — permanent - resident status — to foreign students who earn advanced degrees from U.S. educational institutions, arguing that the students» skills would benefit the U.S. economy.

The fourth witness added a piquant new voice, that of high - skilled visa holders awaiting green cards.

Scientists from countries such as Pakistan, India, or Saudi Arabia who are qualified for green cards are not encountering extraordinary problems.

In a published story last week, the paper reported that foreign investors (i.e., Chinese) were rushing to take advantage of a program offering green cards.

For couples in which one partner is a foreigner, the ruling will allow married gay New Yorkers to apply for green cards.

New York congresswoman Nydia Velázquez was early to John F. Kennedy Airport on Saturday where she demanded the release of refugees being held at the airport after Trump signed an executive order that prevented travelers with valid visas and green cards from entering the U.S. Velázquez, along with Gillibrand, Women's March leaders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, and New York City public advocate Tish James, was among those receiving the biggest cheers at Sunday's anti-wall, anti-ban rally in Battery Park.

«Across New York, fraudulent service providers are making millions of dollars by ripping off immigrant communities for what they think are rushed or necessary applications for life - altering legal documents: green cards, entrance visas for family members, or the passports to leave and enter the country,» read the release.

In a lawsuit, undocumented immigrants say they thought they were applying for green cards, but their lawyers filed papers for asylum and put them in danger of being removed.

Under current law, the U.S. is on track to issue more new permanent immigrants on green cards over the next five years than the entire population of South Carolina.

During that process, 72 children have been granted asylum and 47 have received permanent residences or green cards through the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status program.

A group of protestors stayed civil throughout the town hall, generally opting to signal their disagreement or agreement with Tenney by brandishing red and green cards.

New legislation would allow 55,000 thousand green cards to be earmarked for foreign graduates of U.S. universities with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math has made it through the House of Representatives.

Trump's Muslim ban came into force in the most brutal way imaginable, penning people in airports, detaining refugees and interpreters and families and old women, and expanding to include those who had been legally resident in the US for years on green cards.

The EB - 5 program was created as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 and gives foreign nationals who invest at least $ 500,000 in U.S. development projects that create or preserve 10 jobs faster access to green cards.

Several documented immigrants holding green cards and valid visas have been arrested as well, they said.

An unknown number of non-American legal residents who were trying to re-enter the country with valid visas — including students, visitors, and people with green cards — were either detained at U.S. airports or not allowed to get on their flights to the United States, the media outlet reports.

The meeting became heated at times, as many attendees made clear to Schumer how critical it is that the overhaul allow allows U.S. citizens to seek green cards for their foreign - born partners.

What he should be talking about are the real issues in New York State, out of control legal and illegal immigration, hundreds of thousands of Americans unemployed, all these work - visa's, green cards, in America must be cancelled.

Only American citizens (and immigrants with green cards) can contribute to federal politics, but the American divisions of foreign companies can form political action committees (PACs) and collect contributions from their American employees.

In addition, the implementation created some initial confusion about coverage for people who already had valid visas and green cards.

Senior administration officials told CBS News Saturday that for permanent American residents — those holding green cards — from the listed countries, their readmittance to the U.S. will be done on a «case by case exemption process.»

The green cards are used at the younger levels of play, which helps establish strong sportsmanship values in all the players.

«Honesty and integrity are core values of the Army and this implementation of the green cards has driven these values to the forefront of our league.»

Plus, how they use green cards in soccer at the young age levels is fabulous!

In soccer, where players traditionally receive yellow and red cards for negative actions, you'll find officials showing kids green cards during games when they display good sportsmanship.

True, some are hucksters, seeking green cards or citizenship, but a good many are not.

The Packers lost 4 — 2 in extra time, and as they accepted their silver medals, a Lincoln East fan littered the field with green cardboard rectangles — «green cards.»

That's why they are always jumping the border and trying to marry Americans, for green cards and full citizenship.

and they let aliens with green cards go in their place.

The moderator ducks behind the podium as red and green cards rain down on the platform.

In short, they thought that the people getting baptized were receiving green cards.

According to a new report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 620,000 Christian immigrants received green cards in 2012, joining the nearly 250 million Christians in the U.S. overall.

Witkoff said the developers have suspended fundraising efforts through the EB - 5 program, which grants green cards to foreign investors who make a minimum investment of $ 500,000.

Subsection (d) separately awards green cards to the spouses and minor children of the primary applicants under subsections (a) through (c).

SAN FRANCISCO / WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Barack Obama plans to make life a little easier for some foreign tech workers, but Silicon Valley representatives are disappointed his immigration rule changes will not satisfy longstanding demands for more visas and faster green cards.