YANKTON, S.D. — Sarah Abdalkreem left her native Iraq as the target of insurgents. Now, she is returning to that nation as a United States soldier. Spc. Abdalkreem saw her brother killed and her father kidnapped — never to be seen again — from their Iraq home.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sunday, December 14, at about 3 p.m., two families of 17 people, attempted to make entry into the United States through the Douglas Port by presenting Canadian Citizenship Cards that appeared to be authentic.
In a snow-capped house brightly festooned for Christmas, Ahmed Weisi had but one wish: U.S. citizenship. Would this be his year? The 59-year-old Iraqi-born man has been a permanent legal resident of the United States since 1987.
Temporary Resident Cards and older versions of the Employment Authorization Card will no longer be accepted during the Form I-9 employee verification process, Homeland Security officials announced.
Employers are responsible for the completion and retention of Forms I-9 for all employees (with limited exclusions) hired for employment in the United States, regardless of citizenship or national origin.
As most employers know, it has been illegal since the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (“IRCA”) in 1986 for U.S. employers to employ individuals who are not authorized to work in the United States and to fail to verify the employment eligibility of every new worker using a Form I-9. For many years, there was virtually no criminal enforcement aimed at employers.