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Social Security card for child (The Record)

Q. We adopted a baby girl overseas and brought her home to the United States. We need to get a Social Security number for her. What must we do? * Complete an application for a Social Security card (Form SS-5), which you can download at socialsecurity.gov/online/ss-5.html.

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U.S. military will offer path to citizenship (International Herald Tribune)

The new effort, the first since the Vietnam War, will target immigrant on temporary visas, giving them a chance to become citizens in as little as six months.

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USCIS Ombudsman recommends expedited processing of nurse petitions

By Michael J. Gurfinkel, Esq. Noting that the “nursing shortage in the United States is becoming increasingly problematic and may adversely affect the healthcare industry,” the Ombudsman (the government official who investigates and attempts to resolve complaints and problems, as between the USCIS and the public) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offered some proposals/recommendations for improving the processing of nurse visas. Among the Ombudsman’s recommendations are t

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Rep. Markey signs on to extend “e-verify” (Greeley Tribune)

Rep. Betsy Markey has signed on to a bill that would extend for five years the federal government’s “E-Verify” system employers use to verify their employees can work in the United States legally.

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Those Viral E-Mails

Those Viral E-Mails January 29th, 2009 by The Reverend Someone forwarded me this viral e-mail and asked if I would respond. It is my pleasure….. Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University, School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts, concerning the Presidential election: Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29 Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republ

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Questions/Answers (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)

Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. A year and a half ago, the immigration debate rankled members of Congress and the public.

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As U.S. emerges from dark age, Canada’s scientific advantage fades (The Globe and Mail)

Scientists across the United States are celebrating the passing of the Bush administration as the end of a dark age, a bleak stretch in which research budgets shrank and everything – stem cells, sex education, climate change and the very origins of the Grand Canyon – became a point of conflict.

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Stephen Taylor: Canada says no to Bill Ayers. Why the shock?

Today, American radical William Ayers was denied entry to Canada. Here’s the an excerpt from the article on the story in the Globe and Mail: William Ayers, a distinguished education professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he was perplexed and disappointed when the Canada Border Services Agency declared him inadmissible at the Toronto City Centre Airport on Sunday evening. He said he has travelled to Canada more than a dozen times in the past. “It seems very arbitrary,”

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PRESS RELEASE – Berg is ‘outraged’ at Congress as they failed the citizens of the United States by ‘not’ challenging Obama during the Electoral Vote on January 8, 2009 and Demands that Congressional Hearings be held regarding the ‘qualifications’ of Obama as we are headed for a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ by having an ‘ineligible’ President

Obama Crimes published (Contact information and PDF at end) (Lafayette Hill, PA – 01/15/09) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States and his case, Berg vs. Obama, in the U.S. Supreme Court is still pending regarding an Application for an Injunction, announced today that he wrote a letter to ‘each’ Member of Congress requesting they call for Congressional Hearin

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United States: H-1B Cap for Fiscal Year 2010 – Employers Should Consider Planning Ahead (Mondaq)

On April 1, 2009, employers may begin filing new H-1B petitions for Fiscal Year 2010. Employers should consider planning ahead, as numbers may run out quickly after filing begins.