Immigration - March 2007

I would like to apply for a US working visa, but I have heard that you need collateral such as major land or property or at least 3000 USD in your account inorder to obtain a US working visa. How much of this is true? I have little saved up, I own no properties, and i'm not married. What are my chances of getting a working Visa? Your inputs are greatly appreciated.

2007-03-06 20:28:04 · 5 answers · asked by S V 1

2007-03-06 20:14:43 · 28 answers · asked by SOJLO 3

After the current report, the strain on benefit services, is the UK right to adopt this stance?

2007-03-06 20:14:08 · 21 answers · asked by Warren T 1

messages begging them to go home...It says PLEASE TAKE STEPS TO LEAVE UK. They could also have their driving licenses cancelled...Is this a new labour joke.?

2007-03-06 20:11:30 · 12 answers · asked by David 4

http://www.bankofamericaboycott.com/

2007-03-06 19:20:30 · 17 answers · asked by V 3

Isn't anyone in the government listening?!

2007-03-06 19:18:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.bankofamericaboycott.com/
Should this crappy bank be punished?

2007-03-06 19:15:13 · 19 answers · asked by V 3

2007-03-06 18:20:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it a tough stance as this failing government would have you believe, or is it too little too late, and is it an admission that their policy to deport illegals has failed?

2007-03-06 17:52:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

the father is not in montreal so he is not going to be with the mother while appling for the newborn passport.

2007-03-06 17:09:06 · 3 answers · asked by lara m 1

Anyone have any ideas for how an American guy would emigrate to the UK? Any companies that hire americans, etc.?

2007-03-06 16:36:18 · 2 answers · asked by Chestrensen 2

What country is the most dangerous and you would not want to go to?

I'm just wondering what countries are the most dangerous and that you would not want to travel to.

I'm looking into volunteer programs abroad. What country should I NOT consider?

2007-03-06 16:20:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

i mean hasn't this country been made of inmigrants ever since the pilgrims arrived to this land.

And why do they say inmigrants are draining our sources like welfare. Haven't you all noticed that the reason they come is to look for jobs, since their countries haven't been able to provide it for them. And they do all the jobs nobody wants to do, so they help the economy providing cheap labor.

They also say inmigrants don't asimilate the "American culture" but what's the "American culture" to start with? And i don't think the pilgrims adopted the Native American culture, neither the Americans who lived in Texas adopted the mexican culture, when Mexico used to own it.

Couldn't we just accept each other and keep making this country the beautiful place that it is?

2007-03-06 16:07:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

people south of the U.S. border

2007-03-06 15:43:07 · 16 answers · asked by ManUnited!Ole!Ole!Ole! 3

America has a northern Canadian border that is twice as long as the Mexican border.

The Minuteman Project claims it is a "pro-borders" group, yet only focuses on one single border.

But there are hundreds of thousands of Canadian illegals here, many blending into the White population:
SOURCE: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1224overstays.html


Isn't the Minutemen's selective border enforcement an example of discrimination?

2007-03-06 15:10:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-06 15:09:18 · 4 answers · asked by india 2

2007-03-06 15:03:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am on h1 now. we are singapore citizens. How long it takes?

2007-03-06 14:55:52 · 3 answers · asked by satishkumarsg 1

We often hear people say that they see "illegals" here and there.

But they also claim they are not labeling "illegals" based upon race.

What are the traits that lead you to say someone is "illegal"?
When you see poor Whites, do you assume they are "illegals" from Canada?

Details, please!

2007-03-06 14:34:51 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-06 14:32:50 · 16 answers · asked by india 2

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_curing_migration
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Felipe Calderon won't be fighting for migration reform when he meets with President Bush next week. Instead, he will be be spelling out what he intends to do to keep Mexicans at home.

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Calderon, who was inaugurated on Dec. 1, has pledged to take 100 actions in his first 100 days in office, many of which represent the first steps toward "curing" Mexico's long tradition of illegal migration to the U.S.

If implemented, his proposals could help transform Mexico from a labor-exporting country with relatively low growth, productivity and wages into an investment-rich, job-producing economy with better living standards for its 107 million people, nearly half of whom still live in poverty.

"We are laying the foundation for a more just, healthy society with better and more equal opportunities for all," he said.

Even a modicum of success for Calderon would improve on the record of his predecessor Vicente Fox, who failed to persuade the United States to accept Mexican guest workers and also could not put in place proposed reforms.

Like Fox, Calderon faces powerful Mexican monopolies and oligopolies, union leaders and old-school politicians who have resisted changes to a system that concentrates power and wealth in a small number of hands and blocks attempts to improve competition, lower consumer prices and open the job market to more people.

Unlike Fox, Calderon has shown he can rally lawmakers and others behind his plans: Congress unanimously passed his 2007 federal budget and he has united state governments behind a nationwide crackdown on drug trafficking.

Among other things, he has proposed labor, energy and judicial reforms to encourage investment, promote competition and create jobs; improved tax collection to generate more revenue to fight poverty and improve education; universal health care and support for small and medium-size businesses.

"Curing" migration will take many more than his six years in office, Calderon says. With this in mind, he set the goal of boosting Mexico's per-capita income from the equivalent of about $8,000 today to around $30,000 by 2030.

"It won't be easy. It won't be fast, but yes, it is possible," Calderon said.

Calderon and Bush will meet in Merida, the capital of Yucatan state, on March 13 and 14. Officials have not disclosed in detail the talks' agenda, but in addition to migration, the two are expected to discuss drugs and unresolved trade disputes over trucking rights and agricultural products.

U.S.-bound migrants include not only poor and poorly educated unskilled laborers, but also middle-class entrepreneurs, college graduates and professionals. Many actually have jobs in Mexico, but the salaries don't match their talents and experience, and workplace discrimination is widespread.

"I think he's on the right track, but migration is a long-term problem," said Jorge Chabat, an international affairs expert at Mexico City's Center for Economic Research and Instruction.

Jose Antonio Perez, a 27-year-old college graduate from the oil-rich Gulf coast state of Veracruz, has a degree in mechanical engineering, but no real career prospects in Mexico.

His jobs have included a five-month, unpaid engineering internship at a boat-repair company; a two-year job with a telephone company that offered no benefits and no chance of advancement; and his current teaching job, which requires little of his engineering skills and offers no insurance benefits, vacation, or job security.

Perez works 12 hours a day Monday through Friday teaching high school mathematics and computers — a post that pays $12,000 a year. He supplements his income with odd carpentry and bricklaying jobs, or selling clothing and even cars.

"I sleep four hours a night," he said. "I can't even think of having a family until I get something more secure."

More than a year ago, when several of Perez's friends were working illegally in the United States, they earned as much as $26,300 a year pumping gas or working in carpentry.

The friends have since returned, but their stories have inspired Perez. If his situation doesn't improve in six months, he plans to cross the border as well.

"I could be a carpenter or a locksmith," he said.

Calderon — who often notes that he has relatives in the United States, although he has not revealed their legal status — says he is well aware of the difficulties Mexicans face trying to live and work in their own country.

He recently told the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico: "The ideal situation for Mexico is not to have Mexicans migrate."

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On the Net:

http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/en

2007-03-06 13:41:40 · 6 answers · asked by Zoe 3

She was misslead to resign and become a mexican citizen so she could run a bussiness there. They told her back then that that she wouldn't loose her US citizenship. Is she still american? Can she get a passport with her Social Security number?

2007-03-06 13:29:02 · 9 answers · asked by ppsam 1

2007-03-06 13:26:09 · 11 answers · asked by lone wolfe 3

2007-03-06 13:18:57 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-06 13:14:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a Canadian citizen, born in 1982. My mother was born in the US, but grew up in the UK and was a British citizen. She emigrated to Canada to marry my father and live here. She traveled under a UK passport even after she obtained Canadian citizenship in 2004. She passed away in 2005. Can I get a UK passport because of her British citizenship? My grandmother is a British citizen, still alive, and resides in the UK.

2007-03-06 12:50:02 · 7 answers · asked by physicist1028 1

A Texas sheriff says a 2001 case against another U.S. Border Patrol agent set the pattern that was used by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in his recent cases against Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who now are serving prison terms for shooting at a drug smuggler fleeing back into Mexico, as well as Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez.

Rocksprings, Texas, Sheriff Don Letsinger told WND in a telephone interview that the prosecution of David Sipe was "the smoking gun" showing how the U.S. Attorney's office handles evidence "to get prosecutions like U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton has gotten in the case of Ramos and Compean."

Sipe was convicted in 2001 for a situation near McAllen, Texas, when he was accused of using a metal flashlight to strike illegal alien coyote Jose Guevara on the back of his head after Guevara struggled and resisted arrest.

The charge was using "excessive force and causing bodily injury" in the confrontation during the early morning hours of April 5, 2000.

The case would ruin Sipe's career and marriage before it was over just a few weeks ago. A federal appeals court reversed his conviction and ordered a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct, including withholding exculpatory information from the defense in violation of the Brady rule, and during a re-trial in January, Sipe was acquitted after deliberations of less than an hour.

Sipe's attorney, Jack Wolfe, told WND there were similarities between Sipe's case and the allegations against the "Texas 3," former U.S. Border Agents Ramos and Compean and Deputy Sheriff Hernandez, who has been convicted in a prosecution also launched by Sutton of shooting at a van loaded with illegal aliens he thought were trying to run him down.

"The federal prosecutors in the Sipe case refused to prosecute Guevara when he was apprehended a second time, caught for transporting illegal aliens by automobile," Wolfe told WND, just as documents suggest that prosecutors failed to prosecute a second offense by Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, the smuggler shot at by Ramos and Compean.

Wolve also said the Sipe prosecution was driven by the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington. "DOJ under Clinton sent Fred Menner down to Texas from the Civil Rights Division to make sure this case was prosecuted," he said. Similar concerns have been expressed about the Ramos-Compean case.

"At first, the reports from the Border Patrol were that nobody was going to do anything about Sipe's case. The DOJ in Washington was hot," Wolfe said. "They built the fire under the U.S. Attorney's office to get the case going. DOJ Civil Rights got the bit in their mouth and they decided to prosecute Sipe."

"The Mexican Consulate footprints were all through the Sipe case," Wolfe added. "The Mexican Consulate wrote letters, they went out and assisted in taking photographs that they turned over to the prosecution. The Mexican Consulate offered to go to Mexico and bring back witnesses. A member of the Mexican Consulate sat through the whole trial."

Such requests also were evident in the case against Hernandez, who essentially had been cleared before the demand arrived from Mexico that he be prosecuted.

There also have been allegations in the Ramos-Compean case of improper links between those involved in illegal activity, and those connected to the Border Patrol. Likewise in the Sipe case, Wolfe said.

"The Texas Department of Public Service pulled over a vehicle transporting illegal immigrants and they found Guevara," Wolfe explained. "DPS called the Border Patrol to respond. The two agents that responded recognized Guevara from the Sipe case. So, they went up the chain of command and the boss of that shift in the McAllen sector made the decision not to send the case over to the U.S. Attorney's office"

Wolfe said the Border Patrol boss of that shift and Guevara both ended up being linked to a nefarious character known as the "Goat Man." He was a known alien and dope smuggler who lives in Bonitas, Wolfe said.

"The victim worked for the Goat Man. Six months later, when Guevara gets caught again, the Border Patrol official who makes the decision not to prosecute is the nephew of the Goat Man," he said.

"The prosecution knew Guevara got caught again," Wolfe said, "and the Border Patrol recommendation was not to prosecute him. The prosecution gave Guevara a pass on the second violation because they didn’t want to weaken the case against Sipe."

"The prosecution gave Guevara and the other two illegal immigrant witnesses Social Security cards, border passes, and witness fees," Wolfe also told WND. "The prosecutors became virtually a travel agency for Guevara and the other government witnesses in the case, giving them free air travel to and from Mexico so they could visit family and friends, as well as free phone use to contact their families, whenever they wanted to do so."

Letsinger also told WND that he believes information was withheld from the grand jury and trial jury to get a conviction against Hernandez.

"I'm reasonably sure that the grand jury was not told there was no physical evidence recovered at the scene to support statements of the government's witnesses and the government's charges," the sheriff said. However, WND was unable to obtain a comment from the U.S. Attorney's office.

On February 22, WND reported that Letsinger believed Hernandez did nothing wrong and that the Texas Rangers were not going to recommend prosecution as a result of their investigation.

The statements by the prosecution that Gilmer Hernandez had chased the illegals across a pasture, cursing them and shooting at them were completely false," Letsinger told WND. "The Texas Ranger and a federal ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agent and an ATF dog were taken to that location. That dog searched that location thoroughly and could find no shell casings. When the dog failed to find the shell casings, the officers used a metal detector to search the field thoroughly and failed to find any shell casings."

"At trial, the prosecutor insinuated to the jury information that he knew was not true," Letsinger told WND. "He implied to the jury that evidence was tampered with, when there is no evidence of tampering. The physical evidence collected is consistent with Gil Hernandez's version of events."

"These immigrants, by their own statements to Texas Rangers, had entered into a criminal conspiracy with an organized crime smuggling organization to enter the United States in violation of the U.S. immigration laws," Letisinger continued. "The difference is that when you enter into a conspiracy, even though you do not know all the conspirators, you are responsible for the [actions] of all the conspirators. So, when the driver attempted to run over Deputy Hernandez, all the parties in the car were now culpable for felony assault charges.

"The U.S. attorneys knew everything that was in the Texas Rangers report," Letsinger said. "In that report were the statements of the illegal immigrants that they had entered into a criminal conspiracy. So, prior to trial, Sutton had decided to give all the occupants of the van and all the members of the conspiracy immunity from those felony assault charges."

Letsinger told WND that he strongly suspects Sutton would have had no case if the jury had known that the story about Hernandez running through a field, firing his weapon and trying to kill the runaway immigrants was unsubstantiated by evidence. Letsinger also told WND that had the story been true, the Texas Rangers would have recommended prosecution and he would have concurred.

WND has reported that the federal prosecution of Hernandez began only after the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas, wrote a series of letters demanding that the Bush administration prosecute Hernandez for injuring a Mexican national, Marciela Rodriguez Garcia.

The federal government has recommended a seven-year term for Hernandez at his sentencing later this month.

How long have we been begging and petitioning Bush for a pardon?

2007-03-06 12:37:04 · 5 answers · asked by Zoe 3

2007-03-06 12:31:20 · 4 answers · asked by Alex Uy 1

2007-03-06 12:20:09 · 18 answers · asked by Zoe 3

when u file in person or by mail. how long do you have to wait to receive your new one?

2007-03-06 11:58:33 · 4 answers · asked by Lynx S 1