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NEWS ABOUT: green card

green card stories: 11 news summaries

(Newser) - Russian women are so eager for green cards that one New York-area weekly devotes an entire page to marriage ads, the New York Post reports. A Post reporter, posing as an immigrant angling for a green card, contacted a marriage broker and got the going rate: $31,500, $6,500... More »

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marriage • green card • Russians • immigrant • brokers

Fla. Developer Offers Investors Green Cards

Foreigners with $1M cash can get US residence

Jan 28, 09 7:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Foreigners still interested in the American dream can get permanent residence in the US by investing $1 million in a Florida condo-hotel project starved for credit. The government-approved offer gives investors a conditional visa in exchange for the investment, the Orlando Sentinel reports. If the foreigners can prove within two... More »

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immigration • visa • green card • Orlando • private investors • investor • Walt Disney World • condo hotel

'Rockefeller' In-Law: Con Man Wed and Fled

Alleged kidnapper got green card, ditched Wisc. bride in 1981

Aug 11, 08 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alleged kidnapper and con artist Clark Rockefeller tricked a Wisconsin woman into marrying him in 1981 and then bolted with his new green card, the bride's sister told the Boston Herald. “He tells stories and takes advantage of people,” she said. “He screws with people’s heads.... More »

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crime • kidnapping • green card • Clark Rockefeller • Amy Jersild

New US Tax Law Looks Heartless to Foreign Workers

Would-be tax evaders will pay, but so will wealthy green-card holders

Jul 9, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new tax law set up to help troops and veterans, offset by taxing wealthy Americans who give up citizenship to beat the IRS, hits some others in the wallet, Portfolio reports. Long-term, legal foreign workers who return home will see unrealized capital gains taxed—potentially damaging the perception of... More »

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veterans • taxes • US troops • green card • US economy • foreign labor • immigrant • tax dodge • Heart Act

No Rebates for Immigrant Taxpayers—or Yank Spouses

Caught in rules designed to cut illegal immigrants

May 12, 08 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of thousands of legal, taxpaying immigrants and their Americans spouses are among the unhappy few who won’t be getting a tax rebate check, AP reports. Taxpayers need a Social Security number to qualify—a rule intended to carve out illegal immigrants. Also inadvertently cut from the benefit are... More »

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illegal immigrant • green card • Social Security • Internal Revenue Service • economic stimulus package • tax rebate • economy

FBI Bails on Immigrant Probes as Backlogs Mount

Backlog means immigrants will be granted residency before background checks

Feb 12, 08 4:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Immigration officials are expected to grant green cards to tens of thousands of aliens before required FBI background checks, because the Department of Homeland Security is struggling under a ballooning backlog, McClatchy Newspapers reports. Background checks would be performed after immigrants are granted residency, which could be revoked if problems... More »

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FBI • Citizenship and Immigration Services • Department of Homeland Security • background check • green card • immigrant • permanent residency • Center for Immigration Studies • US citizenship

Feds Bust
Sham Craigslist Marriage

Russian woman looking for green card found hubby in ad

Dec 7, 07 1:55 PM CST
(Newser) - It was a match made not in heaven but on Craigslist, and the Russian bride and American groom are charged with staging a sham marriage to get her a green card. The woman posted not-so-subtle ads: "Green Card Marriage—Will Pay $300/Month. Total $15,000," the LA Times... More »

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marriage • Craigslist • green card • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

EU Will Lure Skilled Migrants With 'Blue Card'

Universal visa will mimic US Green Card, fill projected shortages

Oct 24, 07 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facing a projected shortfall of 20 million workers by 2030, the European Union unveiled its own version of the US Green Card yesterday in hopes of attracting skilled migrants. The Blue Card will grant workers full employment, social security, and health care benefits, as well as permanent residency after five... More »

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immigration • European Union • green card • Jose Manuel Barroso • Blue Card

Missing GI's
Wife Faces Deportation

Feds may send Boston- area woman home to Dominican Republic

Jun 20, 07 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - While the US military searches for MIA Army specialist Alex Jimenez, the US government may be looking to deport his wife. Yaderlin Jimenez snuck into the country from the Dominican Republic six years ago; Alex, who disappeared in Iraq with two other soldiers last month, had tried in vain to... More »

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missing soldiers • Ted Kennedy • green card • Alex Jimenez • Yaderlin Jimenez • Brian Fouty • immigrant

Immigration Fees Skyrocket

Prices to rise by two-thirds; critics
see barrier for
poorer immigrants

May 30, 07 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The price of citizenship is going up. With applications on the rise, the federal agency for citizenship and immigration is raising charges for almost all benefits, reports the Los Angeles Times. The cost of a green card will go from $325 to $930, while citizenship applications will rise from $330... More »

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immigration • citizenship • Citizenship and Immigration Services • green card • application

Citizenship Push Aims to Create Latino Voters

Cable giant spearheads effort to transform
green cards into ballots

May 10, 07 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nation's largest Spanish-language broadcaster is preparing to launch an unprecedented citizenship drive that could sway the 2008 presidential election. Univison's "Ya Es Hora" ("It's About Time") campaign, already under way in Southern California, will encourage the country's eight million green card holders to apply for citizenship—... More »

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California • Univision • Latino voters • Los Angeles • citizenship • green card • Election 2008

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