All Entries in the "Immigration" Category
CUNY Board of Trustees Approves Tuition Hikes Despite Student Protests
Hundreds of City University of New York students and teacherstook to the streets Monday night to protest a now-approved tuition hike. Though the vote is over, students said their battle is just beginning. The protesters rallied in front of Baruch College, where the CUNY Board of Trustees voted in favor of the proposed increases. The vote means an [...]
The Negative Push Factor In Jamaica’s Brain Drain
JAMAICA has been experiencing ‘Brain Drain’ since the 1950s and a ‘Brawn Drain’ since the late 19th century. The society was happy and relieved because migration was a vent for surplus labour. This release of unemployed labour has been a direct consequence of the failure of the Jamaican economy to provide employment for all of [...]
Immigration Officials Back Away From Deportation Program
Federal immigration officials have quietly backed away from a program in Arizona and other Western states aimed at quickly and efficiently deporting illegal immigrants rather than keeping them in costly detention centers. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, including thousands from Arizona, have been deported under the program over the past several years. Called stipulated [...]
Caribbean Migration Problems
With the exception of those pictures of Haitians in overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels trying to reach places like The Bahamas and the United States, the image of the Caribbean is usually not one that portrays people from poor developing countries desperately trying to scratch out a living among the scattered islands. Rather, it has always been [...]
How to obtain a student visa to study in the USA
1. How do I start? If you already know what you want to do, the first step is to apply to a school in the United States. The school must be an SEVP approved school. Click link below to view schools: http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/ApprovedSchools.pdf. Once you are accepted to an SEVP approved school, your school will give [...]
How to become a US Citizen
US citizenship offers several important benefits. The process of naturalization provides a new US citizen with virtually all the same benefits and privileges of citizenship enjoyed by those born in the U.S. With citizenship, you can enjoy the right to vote, the right to take full part in the US military, the right to run [...]



