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12 Dec 2013, 2:59 am
Every country participating in the Visa Waiver Programme is reviewed every two years by the Department of Homeland Security in order to determine the effect their participation in the Visa Waiver Programme has on US immigration, security and law enforcement but new citizenship laws may affect the outcome. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 4:05 am
[JURIST] Sri Lanka's Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka [official profile] returned home [press release] Thursday without being questioned by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] about alleged war crimes. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 3:34 pm
EFF, joined by several leading civil liberties and immigrant rights organizations, recently filed a comment calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw a proposed rule that would exponentially expand biometrics collection from both U.S. citizens and noncitizens who apply for immigration benefits and would allow DHS to mandate the collection of face data, iris scans, palm prints, voice prints, and DNA. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 8:25 am
I know very little about such questions, but Baker does; he has been General Counsel of the National Security Agency and Assistant Secretary for Policy of the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 6:07 pm
Businesses failing to abide by this directive risk losing federal contracts.On June 9, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designated E-Verify as the electronic employment eligibility verification system that all federal contractors must use.E-Verify, formerly known as the Basic Pilot/Employment Eligibility Verification Program, was originally established in 1997 by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social… [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 9:21 am
[JURIST] US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] Secretary Janet Napolitano [official profile] and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [official website] Director John Morton [official profile] announced Wednesday that the US government has deported a record number of illegal immigrants [news release] during 2010. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 7:23 am
The U.S. has now lifted entirely a controversial ban on laptops in hand luggage for passengers flying to the country from the Middle East or via certain Middle Eastern airlines, with the Department of Homeland Security professing itself satisfied with “enhanced security measures in place”. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 8:01 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) [official website] approved a report [text, PDF] on Thursday detailing concerns with the controversial Secure Communities Program [materials], a federal enforcement program that partners local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 4:51 pm
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2 Nov 2006, 9:48 am
MORE REASON TO BE UNIMPRESSED WITH HOMELAND SECURITY: A Morocco-born computer virus that crashed the Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT border screening system last year first passed though the backbone network of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement bureau, according to newly released documents on the incident. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 3:22 pm
NextGov – “The FBI, Homeland Security Department and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert on Russian government cyber tradecraft and mitigation techniques for targets. [read post]
16 Jan 2010, 10:04 am
The Department of Homeland Security has recently decided to allow for TPS (Temporary Protected Status) to out-of-status Haitians in the United States on January 12, 2010. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 3:58 pm
This Final Rule revises the process by which employers obtain a temporary labor certification from the Department for use in petitioning the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to employ a nonimmigrant worker in H-2B status. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 11:29 am
The National Immigrant Justice Center, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Border Litigation Project [advocacy websites] filed the complaint with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] on behalf of more than... [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 7:34 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday passed a $40 billion funding bill [HR 240, PDF] for the Department of Homeland Security on a 236-191 vote, which included amendments [text] to repeal two key facets to President Barack Obama's immigration action. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 11:29 am
[JURIST] The United States and the European Union Thursday signed an agreement [PDF text; EU backgrounder] on the regulation of trans-Atlantic airline passenger data-sharing [JURIST news archive], allowing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] to continue using passenger data [DHS press release] when the existing interim agreement [JURIST report] expires at the end of [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 8:41 pm
Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News: “There is too much information that is marked “For Official Use Only” at the Department of Homeland Security, the House Appropriations Committee said in its report on DHS Appropriations for 2015….Here is the Committee language from its June 19 DHS Appropriations report: Over-Classification of Information - The Committee is concerned with the number of reports, briefings, and… [read post]
2 May 2017, 5:00 am
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a fraud alert! [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 1:27 pm
The US Department of Homeland Security published a notice in the Federal Register barring Haitians from being issued low skilled work visas. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 8:28 am
This account describes itself as "immigration resistance" and is openly critical of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] and the Trump administration, and it is claimed to be operated by employees of the US Citizen and Immigration Service [official websites] within DHS. [read post]
