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U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) received more than 200,000 H-1B petitions this cap season. After running both the Regular Cap lottery and the U.S. Master’s Cap lottery, the USCIS has begun issuing receipt notices. If this year is like previous years, this process will continue into June, and it will […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is proposing charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the U.S. In a presidential memorandum signed Monday, Trump directed his attorney general and acting […]

Real estate developer Robert V. Matthews pleaded guilty today in Connecticut in a criminal case involving investor funds earmarked to renovate the long-stagnant Palm House hotel-condominium in Palm Beach, according to a joint statement released by U.S. officials. In a Bridgeport federal courtroom, Matthews, 61, pleaded guilty “to conspiracy, money […]

The Homeland Security Department is weighing a plan to bypass immigration courts and remove undocumented immigrants who cannot prove they’ve been present continuously in the U.S. for two years or more. The proposal is described in a draft regulatory notice, according to two DHS officials and a third person familiar […]