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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP), to enable travelers to seek redress and resolve watch list misidentification issues. DHS TRIP provides a way for travelers to address situations where they have been incorrectly delayed, denied boarding, identified for additional screening, or have otherwise experienced difficulties… Read More
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has launched a Web site for handling traveler complaints. CBP has four primary programs to address customer complaints and feedback: the Comment Card Program, the Customer Service Center, Passenger Service Representatives and a telephone/verbal complaint response system. An outline of the CBP’s response programs and information on how to… Read More
In the February 26, 2007, issue of Newsweek magazine, Fareed Zakaria noted that total international arrivals to the U.S. declined 10 percent between 2000 and 2004, and that business travel to the U.S. has declined by 10 percent in the last two years while other major capitals (London, Singapore, Dubai) are experiencing increases.
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) sustained the appeal and remanded the case of a person whose visa petition was approved before the August 6, 2002, effective date of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) but who filed an adjustment of status application after that date. The BIA said the respondent retained his status as… Read More
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has found recently that some requests for evidence (RFEs) were issued to petitioners for special immigrant religious workers that did not take into account the supporting evidence that was included with the petitions. These generic RFEs requested evidence with respect to every eligibility criteria regardless of the evidence submitted… Read More
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a recent report that the Department of Homeland Security’s US-VISIT program has not yet implemented a biometric exit capability or a suitable alternative. Among other things, the GAO said that the DHS has continued to pursue US-VISIT without fleshing out the program’s operational and technological context. The… Read More
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on January 30, 2007, that analyzes legislative proposals under the DREAM Act that would enable some unauthorized foreign students to become lawful permanent residents (LPRs) through cancellation of removal. Two similar DREAM Act bills were introduced in the 109th Congress: S. 2075 and H.R. 5131. Those bills… Read More
Google Custom Search Engine allows a user to create a customized search engine using Google technology and the user’s own customized index. At Google Scholar, the user can search using any language or a specified language. Google search tips can be found here, and a listing of special features and what they can be used… Read More
Last year, Wired News editor Kevin Poulsen sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under the Freedom of Information Act, because CBP refused to disclose documents related to a US-VISIT computer failure. A federal court in California recently ordered the agency to release the documents, which revealed that the computers had been infected with a… Read More
In a National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) survey, 90 percent of small business owners agreed that undocumented immigration is a problem. “Like most Americans, small-business owners are troubled by the problem of illegal immigration,” said Dan Danner, NFIB’s executive vice president of NFIB. “As Congress debates this issue, it is important that they take… Read More