The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear in March a plea seeking direction to the government to release Rohingya refugees who have been 'illegally and arbitrarily' detained in jails and detention centres across the country.
"Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants. And right now, leaders from the business, labour, law enforcement, and faith communities all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Obama said in his annual State of the Union Address -- the first of his second term.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on the fifth day of its deliberations that included 300 amendments to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill -- Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act -- passed it by 13-5 votes.
A Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration report says that immigration consultants need to be regulated, just as lawyers and other professionals are.
Banerjee also appealed to the people of West Bengal not to get provoked over matters concerning the current situation in Bangladesh.
When Rinku Sen took the cause of illegal immigrants to the youth panel of America's premier civil rights organizations, some participants were surprised. Sen, an activist for over two decades and author of the well-praised book The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, pleaded, as she has been doing for many years, the cause of illegal immigrants from across the world.
The EAM when asked about his view of the world at present, said it would be "very grim forecast, for the next five years".
Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney dropped a bomb shell during his keynote address at the Economic Club in Toronto on July 21.
'A large number of people from Sindh province will now opt to migrate to India as they would be granted citizenship through an easy process.'
Pakistan Foreign Office in a statement said the latest legislation by the Indian government was another major step towards the realisation of the concept of "Hindu Rashtra.
Lambasting the Bharatiya Janata Party for allegedly bringing up the issues of NRC, CAA and Uniform Civil Code ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted she would not allow anyone to take away the citizenship of people during her lifetime.
'This movement is not about Hindus, Muslims or Bengalis, but about all Assamese, irrespective of their religious faith or economic class'
'The BJP and RSS were working on the ground to define who is an illegal immigrant.'
Several petitions, including those by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra have been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.
In a crackdown on fraudulent immigration consultants, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has announced the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee activities of immigration consultants."There are people who sometimes seek to unethically make a profit by exploiting the hopes and dreams of newcomers," said Kenney, who was aghast to see rows of billboards announcing guaranteed immigration to Canada in Chandigarh last year.
The British government plans to introduce points-based system for migrants including those from India seeking to acquire British citizenship in the near future.
Normal life in the city has been paralysed to the core as protesters are defying curfew and venturing out on the streets.
Violent agitations continued to rock parts of West Bengal for second consecutive day on Saturday as people protesting against the amended Citizenship Act set several buses on fire and torched portions of a railway station complex, officials said.
'To treat a Hindu fleeing persecution and certain death in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan on par with a Muslim voluntarily sneaking into India for economic reasons or otherwise is callously cruel, blatantly perverse and grossly unjust.' 'The concept of equality cannot be invoked to perpetuate a historical wrong that needs to be righted,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
The Bharatiya Janata Party president also accused successive Congress government's of having alienated the region from the rest of the country.
Margaret Stock, the author of the report 'The Cost to America and Americans of Ending Birthright Citizenship,' in slamming this effort by conservative Republicans, has said that if such a proposal is enacted, "it would call into question whether (former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential front-runner) himself is eligible for the presidency," since his father George Romney was born in Mexico while his parents were living in a Mormon commune in that country.
The US has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach a cap for the much-sought-after H-1B foreign work visas for the fiscal year 2024, a federal agency has announced. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.
Opposition parties, though resigned to the fact that they lack the numbers to defeat or stall the bill in the two Houses, have decided upon different tactics that they would employ to highlight their reasons for opposing it.
If you are applying for United States citizenship or planning to apply for any other immigration benefits, be ready to pay more from October 26.\n\n
Pakistan-born refugee Fawad Ahmed's Ashes dreams received a major boost on Thursday with the Australian senate passing legislation to fast-track citizenship in special cases.
The United Kingdom government on Friday won a major legal battle as the Supreme Court ruled against allowing a London-born 21-year-old woman of Bangladeshi descent, who ran away to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, to return and fight her citizenship case.
In a major shift, US President Barack Obama has signalled a potential compromise on the contentious issue of immigration reform that could provide a path to citizenship to 11 million people, including some 2,40,000 Indians, already in America illegally.
The SC issued notice to the Centre on the batch of pleas seeking stay on the operation of the law.
The Maharashtra CM said he doesn't think the Centre has a plan on settlement of Hindu immigrant from other countries.
In 2010, Canada welcomed the highest number of permanent residents in 50 years, Jason Kenney, minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, announced on February 13.
In his statement, Obama alleged that instead of advancing commonsense reform and working to fix the immigration system, House Republicans have voted in favor of extreme measures like a punitive amendment to strip protections from 'Dreamers'.
Efforts at bringing about a consensus between the House of Representatives and the Senate over the Immigration Bill suffered a setback with the Speaker of the House saying he intended to take a 'long look' at the Senate measure.
They warned that the 'prime minister and his cabinet colleagues will be stopped from entering the state' if their interests were harmed.
The comprehensive immigration reform if passed by the Congress will provide a path to citizenship to some 11 million undocumented people, including 240,000 Indians.
The contentious bill will be tables in RS on Wednesday. The BJP hopes to get up to 130 votes in a 240-member upper house.
A 7-hr debate was held over the contentious bill. Oppn amendments rejected.
The meetings with the chief ministers will be held on Saturday, an official said.
The high commission of India in Dhaka and the assistant high commissions in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna have been assisting in the voluntary return of Indian nationals, he said.
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