The high number of illegal immigrants in Ghana is due to the lack of border control and security and the underfunded Ghana Immigration Service ( GIS ).

* Iris Recognition Immigration System, an electronic border control system

On 24 October 2008, Phil Woolas, UK Minister of State for Borders and Immigration was subject to a pieing by No Borders activists following his controversial comments on population control.

The Student and Exchange Visitor Program is the program of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to control the admission to the United States of exchange visitors, international students and scholars, who enter the United States on F, M or J visas.

The 1924 Act also established the " consular control system " of immigration, which divided responsibility for immigration between the State Department and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

To control the flow of migrants into Italy, the Department of Public Security set up the Immigration and Border Police Service ( Polizia di Frontiera ), to enforce regulations concerning the entry and stay of aliens in Italy.

In 2012, a pilot project was set up to use civilian staff from the Immigration section of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service ( INIS ) to work with GNIB staff at immigration control at Dublin Airport.

Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think-tank in Washington, D. C. that promotes stricter immigration control and enforcement.

The Immigration Department (, known as 人民入境事務處 before the 1997 transfer of sovereignty ) of the Government of Hong Kong is responsible for immigration control of Hong Kong.

Until the establishment of Immigration Department on 4 August 1961, immigration control in Hong Kong was handled by the Hong Kong Police Force.

The Immigration Service Ordinance 1961 created the new department in charge of immigration control.

* Holder is subject to control under the Immigration Act 1971

" 5. 3 ... Citizens of the Irish Republic, whether exercising EEA free movement rights or not, are not normally subject to any form of immigration control on arrival in the UK because of the Republic ’ s inclusion in the Common Travel Area ( s. 1 ( 3 ), Immigration Act 1971 )"

" 8. 3 The 2000 Regulations did not affect the position of EEA nationals entitled to remain indefinitely on some other basis, for example because they had been granted indefinite leave to remain under some other provision of the Immigration Rules, were entitled by virtue of diplomatic status to exemption from UK immigration control or because, as Irish nationals, they benefit under the Common Travel Area provisions.

Immigration and customs checks have however been removed since December 21, 2007, when all three became part of the Schengen Area.

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

Appointed by Clinton, the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform recommended reducing legal immigration from about 800, 000 people a year to about 550, 000.

* In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.

Exhibits include Hearing Room, Peak Immigration Years, the Peopling of America, Restoring a Landmark, Silent Voices, Treasures from Home, and Ellis Island Chronicles.

Immigration from Spain and intermarriage with Spaniards from the surrounding Spanish towns was a constant feature of Gibraltar's history until the then Spanish dictator, General Francisco Franco, closed the border with Gibraltar in 1969, cutting off many Gibraltarians from their relatives on the Spanish side of the frontier.

After widespread criticism of the situation, the government also conceded that maids having advanced renewal of contract would not be required to leave Hong Kong through the discretion exercised by the Director of Immigration, and employers would benefit from the waiver simply by renewing the contract within the two-year period, admitting that some employers could benefit from the waiver for up to 4 years.

Visitors from other countries and regions not participting in waiver programme are required to apply for visas directly to the Hong Kong Immigration Department.

Appointed by Bill Clinton, the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform recommended reducing legal immigration from about 800, 000 people per year to approximately 550, 000.

Immigration increased even further from 1962 – 1972 when economic growth in Europe occurred, which led to a greater demand for low-skilled labour.

These sanctions included the imposition of Section 212 ( f ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to refuse entry into the United States of senior government officials and others who formulated, implemented, or benefited from policies impeding Nigeria's transition to democracy ; suspension of all military assistance ; and a ban on the sale and repair of military goods and refinery services to Nigeria.

Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 34, 375 people, and migration within the country produced a net gain of 25, 124 people.

Immigration and human rights activists have also noted that Mexican authorities frequently engage in racial profiling, harassment, and shakedowns against migrants from Central America.

Immigration policy was liberalised, allowing an influx of immigrants from Asia.

The Immigration Act of 1965 finally allowed Asians and all persons from all nations be given somewhat equal access to immigration and naturalization.

In an August 2010 report, the Center for Immigration Studies, through direct communication with foreign government officials and analysis of relevant foreign law including statutory and constitutional law, was able to confirm that 30 of the world's 194 countries grant automatic birthright citizenship ( although they were not able to obtain definitive information from 19 countries ).

The creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station on what is now Angel Island State Park in San Francisco Bay served as the processing center for most of the 56, 113 Chinese immigrants who are recorded as immigrating or returning from China ; upwards of 30 % more who showed up were returned to China.

Immigration, mostly from Marrakesh, has been a portion of that increase.

Immigration to the town increased considerably from 1816 until the 1870s, many of the newcomers being of German ( particularly Lutheran, and Mennonite ) extraction.

In the years after the United States enacted the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, allowing many more immigrants from Asia into the country, the population of Chinatown exploded.

Immigration reform in 1965 opened the door to a huge influx of Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong, and Cantonese became the dominant tongue.

* Forcing Our Blues Into Gray Areas: Local Police and Federal Immigration Enforcement ( May 2008 )

Responsibility for the Faget appointment rests with Gen. J. M. Swing, an Eisenhower appointee as head of the Immigration Service.

Fla., and Leonard Gilman, a former college boxer and veteran of the U.S. Immigration Service Border Patrol.

Immigration into the province was eased tremendously by the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line in 1880s.

* Bill Ong Hing, Anthony D. Romero, Defining America Through Immigration Policy ( Temple University Press, 2004 ), 17-19

As part of a 1996 initiative to curb illegal immigration, Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act ( IIRIRA ) on September 30, 1996.

Immigration and customs checks are conducted at the platform exit tunnel for passengers leaving trains here.

Hoover learned of the trip and negotiated with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to revoke Chaplin's re-entry permit.

Immigration officials have been known to ask for bribes to ' expedite ' processing the forms, or to offer to fill out the customs forms prior to demanding a ' fee ' for doing so.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

Immigration continued to North and South America.

In the 35 years before Ellis Island opened, over eight million immigrants arriving in New York had been processed by New York State officials at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in lower Manhattan, just across the bay.

By the time it closed in 1954, twelve million immigrants had been processed by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration.

After the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, which greatly restricted immigration and allowed processing at overseas embassies, the only immigrants to pass through the station were displaced persons or war refugees.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

To support the activities of the United States Bureau of Immigration, the United States Public Health Service operated an extensive medical service at the immigrant station, called U. S. Marine Hospital Number 43, more widely known as the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital.