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Arizona Immigration Targeting

Now its the kids. Arizona is creating quite a stir with its illegal immigration targeting. Read more here.

E2 US Visa Holders at Risk on Renewal

Holders of E2 visas in the United States must have the visa renewed every two years and according to a recent article in the New York Times renewal is no slam dunk and can the process can be very subjective.

Folks who move to the US to set up a business with an E2 face renewal risk. Read about a recent case at the New York Times here.

Foreign Visitors to the USA with Expired Visas

Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.

Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi’s checked in to the country but never officially checked out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them overstayed their visas.

Over all, the officials said, about 40 percent of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.

Mr. Smadi’s case has brought renewed calls from both parties in Congress for Department of Homeland Security officials to complete a universal electronic exit monitoring system.

Read More at NYT

U.K. to Review and Tighten Requirements for Citizenship

The U.K. government is planning to review its immigration policies, in a move likely to make it more difficult for foreigners to become British citizens.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson plans to announce as early as Monday new proposals under which foreigners would have to score a certain number of points to become British citizens — a requirement already in place for people entering the country to work or study.

This would extend a system, modeled after one in use in Australia and introduced last year, that grades workers and students hoping to enter the U.K. on criteria including education, age and need for their skills. The changes were aimed at making it easier to slow the flow of foreigners looking for work in the U.K. when the economy weakens.

This trend is taking place all over the world as countries try to insulate domestic labor markets from foreign immigrants.

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