Australian Guantánamo Bay inmate David Matthew Hicks applied for British citizenship in 2005 after the previous 2002 legislation allowed citizenship by virtue of maternal heritage.
Peter aspired to be a brewer and at the age of 19 in 1869 immigrated to the United States for a better and more prosperous life.
He is also a published author with his 1996 book Zair le gaulois, and is the founder of the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration museum.
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30 — A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a 2—1 opinion written by Anthony Kennedy, affirms in the case of Adams v. Howerton that the Immigration and Naturalization Service did not abuse its authority when it refused to recognize the marriage of Australian Anthony Sullivan and Richard Adams, under a license issued by Boulder County, Colorado in 1975, for purposes of Sullivan's immigration.
511 Federal Building, former federal post office that currently houses Department of Homeland Security offices for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Portland, Oregon
The steps have seen protests by LGBT groups and immigration groups in recent years as well.
Ali Noorani has been since 2008 the Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a Washington, D.C.- based U.S. immigration policy organization.
The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the suit Arar v. Ashcroft against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and then-Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, as well as numerous U.S. immigration officials.
Sovereignty of the Dukes over Gützkow and Demmin was secured and the economy and culture were stimulated by the immigration of German settlers and by the monastery Jaromar I had founded at Eldena.
The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws.
Its founding publisher, Cathy Areu, is a frequent guest on cable TV news shows, discussing pop culture, politics, women's issues, and US immigration.
In 2007, Wright directed "Goals", a film exploring issues of immigration and assimilation vicariously through sports, which premiered on The Documentary Channel and NYC TV.
Her paternal uncle, François Autain, is a French Senator and member of Parti de gauche (Left Party) for Loire-Atlantique, as well as former Deputy Mayor of Bougue and former Secretary of State for Immigration, then for the Ministry of Defense during the presidency of François Mitterrand.
On December 14, 2001, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) took Haddad into custody for overstaying his visa and initiated removal proceedings in Detroit before Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker.
Dan A. Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
After the election, he was named Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Employment and Immigration, Hector Goudreau.
In a New York Times interview, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago stated that he wants to make Chicago the “most immigrant-friendly city in the country;” in addition to offering in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, he has also made plans for an ordinance that would prevent undocumented immigrants with no criminal background from being turned over to immigration enforcement agencies.
-- Don't change the year, 2005 is correct. See the source below-->, the then-Immigration Minister Paul Swain was questioned in Parliament regarding unrelated incidents whether he was confident that Abdille "is not a threat to the New Zealand community".
In the following years they were joined by approximately 100 families who immigrated directly from the Sutherland, Ross and Caithness, Scotland.
His great-grandparents had moved from Interlaken to Patagonia by the end of the 19th-century, during the big waves of immigration at that time.
Over 1,000 blank immigration permits were found for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris.
After the destructive raids of various ports and towns including the newly Spanish-established Manila by Chinese pirate Limahong, the colonial government saw the Chinese as a threat and decided to curb the Sangley in the colony by racial segregation and immigration control.
Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.
On April 17, 2006, The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (GSICA) was authored by Georgia State Senator Chip Rogers, carried in the House by Georgia State Representative John Lunsford and signed into law by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue.
On their 1976 debut studio album Scottish Folk, the Scottish traditional music group Battlefield Band recorded a song about Irish immigration entitled "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" that shares a melody with this song.
Aliyah Bet, also known as Ha'apala, the immigration of Jews to Palestine
In the 1970s, he became more interested in the emerging issue of immigration as large numbers of foreign workers came to the Netherlands.
The organization ran shelters for recent Jewish immigrants at Castle Garden, New York's immigration center at the Battery prior to the 1892 opening of the facility at Ellis Island; Wards Island near the meeting point of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens; and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.
Bridgeport's industrial growth was fueled by, and attracted, immigration from overseas.
Democrat Governor hopeful and current Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree doesn’t support the immigration bill because it would merely be another law passed by the state that would fall on municipal governments to fund.
Nash wrote "Immigration Man" about an unfortunate moment he had with a U.S. Customs official when he tried to enter the country.
On September 19, 2013, Friends of Ivo Widlak created on Change.org a petition to Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for a positive and immediate review of Ivo Widlak's immigration case.
On October 7, 2008, Corsi and his media consultant Tim Bueler were detained by immigration authorities in Kenya while doing further research related to the book, allegedly for failure to have a work permit.
On 29 May 2000, the 'Additional Protocol to the Sangatte Protocol' was signed between France and the UK, an agreement that provided for immigration checkpoints to be set up by France in Eurostar stations in the UK and for immigration checkpoints to be set up by the UK in Eurostar stations in France.
In 2003 Mutumba collaborated on the book "Svartskallar – Så funkar vi" (Blackheads – How we work) where 11 young people from multicultural and minority backgrounds talk about what it is like to be of immigrant background in modern Swedish society.
At the 1964 general election, Hughes-Young faced another challenge from Labour, who had selected Dr David Kerr; in his election address he pointed to the fact that Labour had opposed the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 and asked how the local housing situation would cope without restrictions on immigration.
It was purportedly from James A. Garfield, the Republican presidential candidate, and suggested that Garfield was in favour of Chinese immigration.
The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which protects US citizens and certain other individual from discriminations based on their citizenship or immigration status.
The neighbourhood is named after Joseph Oleskiw, a Ukrainian scholar who promoted immigration to Canada.
She claims that immigration globalizes American religion as well as economics and politics and creates a more pluralistic, cosmopolitan American society.
A Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa is a type of Australian immigration visa granted on arrival in Australia to a non-citizen who is a permanent resident of Norfolk Island.
More recently, there has been a large immigration of Iraqi-Kurds, Hungarians and Romas (Gypsies) into the area.
In 2006, he was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment for breaching Italian legislation on immigration and prostitution, regarding the activities with his wife Eva Henger.
In the 1770s, the prominent Liberal Anders Chydenius - himself a Lutheran priest - prevailed upon King Gustav III to legalise the immigration of Catholics (as well as Jews) into Sweden.
Encompass Research Pty Ltd is an organisation engaged in anthropological and socio-economic research, concentrating on native title, indigenous heritage, immigration and environmental issues.
On 1 June 2012, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that the federal government has agreed to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate problems related to illegal immigration in Sabah.
For example, the Rodina party and its leader Dmitry Rogozin made illegal immigration and a “Moscow for Muscovites!” platform a centerpiece of their election campaign.
History of the Orthodox community in Trieste begins in 1751 when Empress Maria Theresa allow free practice of religion for Orthodox Christians what prompted immigration of Serbian traders from Herceg Novi, Trebinje and Sarajevo to Trieste.
This is mainly because many Xiang-speaking immigrants from Hunan moved to Sichuan during the great wave of immigration during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Xiang does not have such a close relationship with other southwestern varieties of Chinese, such as those spoken in Yunnan, Guangxi or Hubei.
Continual immigration and prevalent Spanish-language mass media (such as Univisión, Telemundo, and Azteca América) support the Spanish-speaking populations.
C. D. Howe Institute, for example, tries to demonstrate that immigration can not be used to effectively counter population ageing.
Immigration control proponents, such as Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter, disagree with Cornelius' assessment on U.S. immigration policy, especially border enforcement.
During the 1920 Nebi Musa riots, the 1921 Jaffa riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Jewish immigration and settlement, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.