Immigration to the United States

Internet scammers target Green Card lottery programme

7 Aug 2011

Internet scammers in Hong Kong are using fraudulent e-mails and letters to pose as the US government in an attempt to extract payments from applicants of the Diversity Immigrant Visa programme....

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Tired of delays, applicants for US citizenship sue government

26 Dec 2007

Issameldin Mohamed, a native of Egypt, explained that he was not entirely sure that suing the US government was a good idea.

In Egypt, 'if you sue the government, there's something...

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Professor's intelligent computer system wins international award

10 Aug 2007

An intelligent computer system which will help the Immigration Department automate the processing of more than 100 forms has won an international award.

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Taipei presses US for return of tycoon

6 Feb 2007

Taiwan is stepping up efforts, including seeking US help and hiring legal consultants, to try to have a disgraced tycoon extradited to the island to stand trial.

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In Brief

18 Dec 2004

Applicants for US visas urged to apply online

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16 IIs found in squalid 300 sqft flat

3 Dec 2004

They are among 69 caught in a crackdown on illegal workers

Sixteen suspected illegal workers have been found living in a filthy 300sqft flat for which they paid $20 each a day,...

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

Updated 4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

Updated 4:48AM

Visa row proves costly for both sides

Following September 11, 2001, America understandably moved to close loopholes in its immigration policies, in the name of security.

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Letters

Rough transit

I refer to the letter from an American citizen travelling to Hainan Island ('Rude immigration', October 14).

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FIRST 'GREEN CARDS' ISSUED TO FOREIGNERS

The local government in Beijing has issued the first 'green cards' to 46 foreigners, granting them between three and five years' residency on the mainland, the People's Daily reported. In the...

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More armed Vietnamese IIs sneaking in

More and more armed Vietnamese illegal immigrants are sneaking into Hong Kong to carry out robberies, despite an overall drop in the numbers arrested since the handover, according to a police...

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Losing the argument

Applicant claim: The NPC Standing Committee excluded the applicants from the effects of its reinterpretation of the Basic Law.

Mr Justice Frank Stock: Exclusion only applies to people...

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Illegal workers paid three times less at local markets

Mainlanders hired illegally to work at wholesale markets are being paid three times less than local employees, immigration officers say.

Investigators raided Cheung Sha Wan wholesale...

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