Finance Giants Step In To Hong Kong Gay Court Battle
Major international finance institutions in Hong Kong made a landmark intervention Wednesday in the case of a gay couple struggling ...
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Japan Immigration Centre Detainees Go On Hunger Strike
Some 20 foreigners held at an immigration detention centre in Tokyo are on a rare hunger strike in an apparent ...
Why Wealthy Chinese Are Lining Up To Pay $500k For U.S. Visas
The Kushner family wants a piece of the huge tide of money that's been flowing out of China. Over the ...
British Rock Band TTNG Detained In Hong Kong Over Visas
British band TTNG and US musician Mylets have been briefly detained in Hong Kong over alleged visa offences. According to ...
Trump To Overhaul Visa Program For High-Skilled Workers
President Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday that aims to overhaul the H1-B visa program used by tech ...
US Military Veterans In A New Fight — Against Deportation
Miguel and Esperanza Perez stood outside Chicago's immigration courthouse, clutching an American flag folded into a triangle in a gesture ...
Trading Nations For An Olympic Ice Hockey Ticket
Fidgeting nervously, Canadian ice hockey defenceman Alex Plante cleared his throat and addressed a roomful of Olympic officials in a ...
50 Extra Judges To Help Tackle Backlog
The US Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention centres to clear a backlog of more than ...
New Trump Travel Ban Faces First Court Challenge
President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on refugees and nationals from six mainly Muslim countries faced a new round of ...
US Agents In Aggressive Sweep For Unauthorized Migrants
US immigration agents increasingly are detaining unauthorized migrants in or near places once considered "safe" like courthouses and churches, spreading ...
Trump Administration Considering Separating Women, Children At Mexico Border
Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U. S. authorities under a proposal ...
Nigerian Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He’s An Engineer
Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban and the ensuing heightened security procedures for travelers from outside the U. S. have caused ...
Trump Hails ‘new National Pride’ In Address To Congress
President Donald Trump hailed the emergence of a "new national pride" in his maiden speech to Congress on Tuesday, pushing ...
Trump Administration Expands Net For Immigrant Deportation
The Trump administration has issued tough guidelines to widen the net for deporting illegal immigrants from the US, and speed ...
Striking A Balance Between Employee Rights and Employer Obligations
By: Rita Ako Williams, Executive Board Chairperson, Excella Consult, LLC For some time now, some employers of domestic workers in ...
Switzerland Votes On Relaxing Its Citizenship Rules
Voters in Switzerland are going to the polls to decide whether the country’s strict rules on citizenship should be relaxed. ...
Hundreds of Immigrants Arrested In ‘routine’ U.S. Enforcement Surge
U. S. federal immigration agents arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least four states this week in what officials ...
Six Other Times the US Has Banned Immigrants
On Friday, Donald Trump barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen - ...
US Protests Grow Against Donald Trump’s Immigration Ban
Protests against right-wing US President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and immigrants from several Muslim-majority countries have been held in ...
2 Iraqis File Lawsuit After Being Detained In NY Due To Travel Ban
Washington (CNN)Lawyers for two Iraqis with ties to the US military who had been granted visas to enter the United ...