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]]> http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/08/test_1.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/08/test_1.php Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:53:09 -0600 The U.S. provides employment-based green cards to 140,000 people a year, with each country limited to 7,000 visas. (Herald News, June 16, 2008)

]]> http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/07/the_us_provides_employmentbase.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/07/the_us_provides_employmentbase.php Here Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:06:21 -0600 Refugees make up about 10% of the immigrants who come to the United States each year. (Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2008) http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/07/refugees_make_up_about_10_of_t.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/07/refugees_make_up_about_10_of_t.php Here Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:50:11 -0600 Immigration 101 Understand the different visa statuses in the United States

]]> http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/immigration_101.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/immigration_101.php Immigration Terms and Glossary Tue, 27 May 2008 22:25:25 -0600 Estimates place the total number of fugitive immigrants in 2008 at just under 573,000 -- a decrease of more than 59,000 since October 2006. http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/estimates_place_the_total_numb.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/estimates_place_the_total_numb.php Here Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:50 -0600 Immigration to Australia from the UK has more than doubled in recent years, climbing from 9000 at the beginning of the decade to just over 23,000 in 2007. http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/immigration_to_australia_from.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/immigration_to_australia_from.php There Tue, 27 May 2008 21:32:06 -0600 More than 39,000 immigrants who are members of the U.S. military service have been naturalized since 2001 (Chicago Tribune) http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/more_than_39000_immigrants_who.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/more_than_39000_immigrants_who.php Here Sat, 24 May 2008 08:17:30 -0600 The biggest group of humanitarian immigrants allowed into Canada in 2006 came from Mexico, almost 12,000 of them or about 13% of the total in that category. http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/the_biggest_group_of_humanitar.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/the_biggest_group_of_humanitar.php There Sat, 10 May 2008 10:17:20 -0600 Chinese immigrants to Canada have outnumbered all other nationalities every year for the past decade, accounting for roughly 13% of all new permanent residents, followed by those from India (12%), PhiIippines (7%), Pakistan (5%) and the U.S. (4%). http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/chinese_immigrants_to_canada_h.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/chinese_immigrants_to_canada_h.php There Sat, 10 May 2008 10:14:20 -0600 More than 100 New Zealanders emigrated to neighbouring Australia every day, between March 2007 and March 2008. http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/more_than_100_new_zealanders_e.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/more_than_100_new_zealanders_e.php There Fri, 09 May 2008 23:07:57 -0600 16,700 immigrants arrived by boat in Lampedusa and the coast of Sicily in 2007 Many of them came from Nigeria, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ghana, and other African countries, and usually take a boat to Lampedusa from Libya.

]]> http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/16700_immigrants_arrived_by_bo.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/16700_immigrants_arrived_by_bo.php There Fri, 09 May 2008 23:04:06 -0600 An Iraqi's odyssey into the French asylum system BY ELISA MIGNOT, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

"We were living in a truck when the Americans attacked," said the man in a low and shaky voice. "We hid behind the driver's seat."

He was perched on a chair in the refugee service of Amnesty International in Paris, recounting his odyssey with his wife and three children from Iraq to France.

His name is Yeshar, he is an Iraqi Kurd from Baghdad and he said he faces sure death if he has to go home.

"We went all the way to Istanbul," he continued. "We stayed there for five months. Then, we took a boat, next a train and a boat again. We arrived at a big harbor. There were some Arabs, they told me to take another train to go to Paris. It was at this moment, I realized I was in France."

Waves, roads and rails brought him to another confusing landscape, this one made up of offices, wretched papers and endless interviews. Now he winds his way through the halls of French justice, pleading his case for political asylum to judges and bureaucrats who sift through thousands of stories like his every year.

The asylum system in France, as in other western countries, is not like other courts.

]]> http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/post_15.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/post_15.php Feature Stories Fri, 09 May 2008 11:27:43 -0600 An estimated 8 million illegal immigrants reside in the EU, half of whom entered in legally but overstayed. http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/an_estimated_8_million_illegal.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/an_estimated_8_million_illegal.php There Thu, 08 May 2008 15:01:41 -0600 In 2007, roughly 31,000 Africans tried to reach the Canary Islands, a prime transit point to Europe, in more than 900 boats. About 6,000 died or disappeared, according to one estimate cited by the United Nations.

]]> http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/in_2007_roughly_31000_africans.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/in_2007_roughly_31000_africans.php There Thu, 08 May 2008 14:55:19 -0600 Up to 700,000 Israelis are currently living abroad, about 450,000 of them in the US http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/up_to_700000_israelis_are_curr.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/up_to_700000_israelis_are_curr.php Here Tue, 06 May 2008 15:18:58 -0600