Immigration - March 2007

I am a holder of-
**Diploma in Marine Engineering from Bangladesh 3yrs,
**Advanced Diploma in Quality Engineering & Management 2yrs from temasek polytechnic,Singapore.
**5 yrs worked in Jurong ship yard as a machinery mechanic,singapore.
**working as a Supervsor in a diesel generated power plant for 7 yrs.

2007-03-26 07:41:52 · 1 answers · asked by saak 1

2007-03-26 07:40:02 · 3 answers · asked by patrice w 1

While feeding the ducks at the weekend, I noticed some birds which migrate here for the summer floating on the pond.

I tried to aim my bread at the indigenous species but these immigrant types just piled in and helped themselves.

They will probably start laying eggs here next and claiming the right to stay here, or taking council nests and getting loads of seed handouts.

What can be done about these scroungers?

2007-03-26 07:35:47 · 20 answers · asked by Bum Gravy. 5

In detail, please explain to me once you file a petition for your spouse in Mexico. Where does it go before it goes to Cuidad Juarez. For informationa purposes I live In California and she lives in Tijuana

2007-03-26 07:33:25 · 3 answers · asked by Joshua Y 1

Thaanks if you responded, but still have more questions:

Russian citizen with J-1 Visa and two year home requirement (immigration, J-1, K-1 2 year home requirement)?
Here is the deal, I'm with a russian who originally came here on J-1 VISA. We would like to stay but can't because of the two year home requirement? I'd like to know if anyone has any experience with the following:

1.) Filing finace visa paperwork including the I-485 to change status. On this form is a question about J-1 does anyone have any experience in saying "no" when in fact you do? Was it overlooked, flagged, was there punishment?
--This I admit, probably a bad idea, but I'm curious if anyone knows of specific punishments in regards to wrong wrong answers on the I-485 J-1 question?

2.) My girlfriend also has an option of getting a job in Russia, with a russian company but she will be required to do much work in the UK? Perhaps as much as 50% of the time. Would this satisfy 2-year home requirement??

2007-03-26 06:48:56 · 1 answers · asked by Matt 2

Can't back up her arguments with real stats or data?

2007-03-26 06:42:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Unfortunately, they ARE going to take over America by their sheer numbers. Millions cross the border every year. They have lots of kids they can't afford. The kids automatically become U.S. citizens. Eventually, most American citizens will be Mexican who will vote for Mexicans. All of our government leaders will be Mexican. Our country will be overcrowded, poor, trashy, and gang infested just like Los Angeles. It will be the United States of Mexico.

Wake up America! Our incompetent government is allowing this happen and nothing is going to stop it.

2007-03-26 06:33:32 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

My friend is a new immigrant in Canada and does not have his perminent resident status yet but he would like to travel to USA with me for a wedding (2 day event). What would he need to fill out to make it possible for him to travel with me to the states?

2007-03-26 05:56:05 · 10 answers · asked by Kelly P 1

Most Popular Change Type Size Targeting child smuggling at entry ports may backfire
Kids face greater danger, critics warn
Daniel González
The Arizona Republic
Mar. 26, 2007 12:00 AM

A church acquaintance approached Brenda Aguirre with a proposition early last year. Would Aguirre, a U.S. citizen, be willing to bring two Mexican children into the United States illegally?

All she had to do was pick them up in Agua Prieta, Sonora, pretend they were her children and drive them back across the border and up to Phoenix. For her trouble, Aguirre, 25, would receive $500, plus the satisfaction of knowing the children would be reunited with their undocumented parents without a potentially deadly trek through the desert.

But things didn't go as planned. An entry port official in Douglas became suspicious when Aguirre presented Arizona birth certificates for her own kids, not the two Mexican children. Now, Aguirre is going to prison for 15 months. The children were sent back to Mexico. advertisement




The case shows the extremes to which parents living illegally in the U.S. will go to bring their children into the country, often putting their kids into the hands of strangers. It also shows the severe consequences for people lured into smuggling children. The heavy punishments are part of a new zero-tolerance government policy to combat a rise in child smuggling along the Arizona border.

The policy is keeping children out of harm's way, government officials say. But critics say the policy is having the opposite effect, driving desperate parents to take greater risks.

Until a few years ago, cases like Aguirre's were rarely, if ever, prosecuted. People trying to smuggle children through ports of entry were simply released and the children returned to Mexico.

Prosecutors in Arizona got tough after noticing that child smuggling was increasing and getting more dangerous, said Serra Tsethlikai, a federal prosecutor who oversees child-smuggling cases in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tucson.

"We've made it a priority," Tsethlikai said.

Since 2003, when the new policy was instituted, federal attorneys in Arizona have prosecuted more than 140 child-smuggling cases and sought mandatory prison sentences. They also have pushed to strip smugglers with green cards of their legal status and deport them. Prosecutors hope the crackdown will send a message.

"Most of the women who do this are very sympathetic, but the crime is very serious," Tsethlikai said.


Illegal passage


Here's how the plan works: A relative of the children or a member of a smuggling organization will pay a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident anywhere from $100 to $800 to bring a child into the country, usually by falsely claiming to be the child's parent at a port of entry.

The person bringing the child across typically is a Hispanic woman.

"Usually you want to look the part," Tsethlikai said.

To bring the children across, the woman will use the birth certificates or other documents of her own children, or bogus documents, then attempt to walk or drive through a port of entry.

But the smugglers don't always try to bring the children across the border in plain sight, using such documentation. Children also have been found hidden inside piñatas and concealed behind car panels.

Once across, the children often are handed over to strangers at parks, stores, gas stations and shopping malls.

The children span all ages.

"We've seen babies as little as 1 or 2 years old," Tsethlikai said. "Often, (the children) have been drugged so they are sleepy. We can't wake them up. Later, the (smugglers) will admit they gave them Benadryl," an over-the-counter antihistamine and sedative.

At first, most of the women hired to bring children across came from border towns. But lately, officials have seen more women from Phoenix driving to Mexico to bring children across. That suggests organized smuggling rings have become involved, although prosecutors have not been able to link any of the women caught bringing children into the country illegally with larger networks, Tsethlikai said.


Increased risk


Aguirre knew she was breaking the law when she agreed to bring the two Mexican children, ages 3 and 5, into the U.S. illegally, her Tucson lawyer, Rubin Salter Jr., said. But she didn't know how severe the punishment could be.

"She did not know it was mandatory prison time," Salter said.

He said Aguirre's main motivation was not money.

"She wanted to help them. She could not imagine these children walking through the desert for several hours," he said.

Tighter border security has fueled an increase in child smuggling, experts say.

In the past, people who crossed the border illegally worked for a few months in the U.S., then returned home. Now, to avoid the risks of crossing illegally, many undocumented immigrants are settling in the U.S. and bringing their families here, said Eveyln Cruz, director of the immigration law clinic at Arizona State University.

"Some of these kids are trying to reunite with a parent or a relative in the U.S.," Cruz said. "Others are kids (who), because of extreme poverty or gangs in their country, are trying to get to the U.S. so they can help provide for their families back home."

Most parents don't want to send their children through the desert, so they try hiring someone to bring them through a port of entry, Cruz said.

Last year, at least 167 people died crossing the border illegally in Arizona, according to the Border Patrol.

Under the government's new crackdown, however, smugglers caught bringing children through official ports of entry are treated more harshly than smugglers who bring children through the desert, said Eric Marsteller, a Tucson lawyer who has defended several women accused of child smuggling.

That could push parents to take greater risks, he said.

"The risk is, with greater focus on the ports of entry, there could be the effect of more children crossing through the desert," Marsteller said.

2007-03-26 05:50:58 · 7 answers · asked by NONAME 2

2007-03-26 05:41:15 · 4 answers · asked by granthamtireandauto 1

how does a polish friend iof mine revoke a Deportation order

2007-03-26 05:31:48 · 14 answers · asked by ANDREW I 1

They said I only need a picture ID but I dont want to have any problems once in the airport

2007-03-26 05:26:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-26 05:14:47 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

If a govt. servant by informing his office about his tratment at a place away from his headquarter and after restoration of his health he resumes his duties after 4 months with valid medical certificate can the competent authority compel him to obtain certificate from medical board. what govt. servant has to do at this stage.

2007-03-26 05:06:13 · 2 answers · asked by pranay k 1

2007-03-26 04:52:27 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im a UK citizen currently on a tourist Visa to USA, I want to go to Niagara Falls in Canada. Will I need to take my passport and will it be stamped again with a date of entry?

2007-03-26 04:52:22 · 6 answers · asked by tg 2

2007-03-26 04:48:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-26 04:45:41 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have deep respect for Asians and their culture, and feel sad when I see Americans ridiculing their language and culture, and humiliating with pejorative epithets, but they take them!

2007-03-26 04:41:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to pursue studies abroad , also would be looking to apply for permanenent residenceship. But i m confused as either to opt for Australian/ Canada.

I prefer to go to Canada but have to look for ease in getting a student visa & also in getting quickly a permanent residence status.
Plz guide me . I appreciate ur assistance in this regard.

Cheers!!!!

2007-03-26 04:28:39 · 2 answers · asked by thehotelier123 1

What is immigrant/alien documentation?

2007-03-26 04:10:58 · 2 answers · asked by icomeanons 2

An Armenian friend of mine is wanting to move to the USA how does he go about it?

2007-03-26 04:07:08 · 2 answers · asked by diablatraviesa4u 1

Why do you think that they are Helping?

2007-03-26 03:55:18 · 25 answers · asked by LA LA 6

I have a crush on this girl on Yahoo Answers but she said she doesn't like long hair so I went and got a haircut. Would you ever cut your hair to get someone to date you? This girl is really hot and smart.

2007-03-26 03:17:02 · 21 answers · asked by Antis Suck 3

A friend of mine was granted green card from a foreign country before she got married. After two years, she went back and got married thinking that they would proceed to the US for the honey moon. Due time and jobs in America, she decided to leave the husband behind to go to the embassy and apply for visa but alas, The man was humiliated and was lectured to at the embassy and told to tell his wife to appeal for him and the appeal will take five years. They asked him why never married a native who had nothing to do with America. surely, is this ethical or fair to anybody regardless of nationality? I think America is promoting same sex marriage and advocating the extinction of family unit consisting of man and wife. This guy has gone to the embassy twice last being last week when he was told that he was wasting their time for he will never even visit American if not with an immigrant visa and not visiting visa as he waits for immigrant one.Their case was approved but even then...God!!!

2007-03-26 02:57:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

put copy on internet of 1947 citizenship act

2007-03-26 02:53:06 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can a Canadian citizen just cross the border and hang out for as long as they want, provided they keep renewing their visa?

2007-03-26 02:48:10 · 5 answers · asked by nitsrek 3

Just how physical does it get?

2007-03-26 02:46:22 · 8 answers · asked by pinkypinkerson 2

What are the different ways that say...a Jamaican can get citizenship in the US?

2007-03-26 02:34:54 · 4 answers · asked by Mr. 88 1

2007-03-26 02:32:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous