The Immigration Department said it would not reimburse levies, which are prepaid half-yearly or yearly in advance.

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

Mihdhar was placed on a CIA watchlist on August 21, 2001, and a note was sent on August 23 to the Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) suggesting that Mihdhar and Hazmi be added to their watchlists.

Many federal government agencies are open their branch in Kajang including the National Registration Department, Immigration Department and Hulu Langat Education Office.

Along with Hillsborough County Sheriff ’ s Office, Tampa Police Department, the State Attorney ’ s Office, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were involved in the operation.

* Citizenship and Immigration Services, a bureau in the United States Department of Homeland Security

In March 2003, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service was abolished and its functions transferred to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Board of Immigration Appeals which review decisions made by government officials under Immigration and Nationality law remain under jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.

However, the Immigration Department which is responsible for processing applications for name change allows applicants to submit such applications without deed polls ; anyone who has a phonetic English name only and wishes to include a western-style English name as part of his or her legal English name can apply to the Immigration Department without a deed poll.

The BDF, National Coast Guard, and the Immigration Department are under the Minister of Defence and Immigration, which is headed by Carlos Perdomo ; the BDF itself is commanded by Brigadier General Dario Tapia.

He also announced that the Department of Health and Human Services crafted regulation that would end the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban effective in January 2010 ; on January 4, 2010, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV status as a factor to be considered in the granting of travel visas.

In July 1789 the U. S. Customs Service and the U. S. Immigration Service were both created within the Department of the Treasury.

The law passed by the last congress has improved the organization of the Immigration Department, but it has done very little toward sifting those who come to our shores.

Reasons include high costs to visit their families back home, support of a family not allowed to work due to immigration laws, tuition that is steep by world standards, and large fees: visa fees by U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, surveillance fees ( such as Student and Exchange Visitor Information Systems, or SEVIS ) by the United States Congress and the United States Department of Homeland Security.

The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), now referred to as Legacy INS, ceased to exist under that name on March 1, 2003, when most of its functions were transferred from the Department of Justice to three new components within the newly created Department of Homeland Security, as part of a major government reorganization following the September 11 attacks of 2001.

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.

On June 6, 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft proposed regulations that would create a special registration program that required males aged 16 to 64 who were citizens of designated foreign nations resident in the U. S. to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), have their identity verified, and be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted.

In 1994, the Court of Appeal dismissed the suggestion that the Minister for Immigration and his department were at liberty to ignore the convention, arguing that this would imply that the country's adherence was ' at least partly window-dressing '.

Following the Government defeat, the Minister for Immigration Phil Woolas announced that a further review would be completed by the middle of July.

Attached to the Quebec ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities, its initial mission, defined in its report of April 1, 1964 was " to align on international French, promote good Canadianisms and fight Anglicisms, [...] work on the normalization of the language in Québec and support State intervention to carry out a global language policy that would consider notably the importance of socio-economic motivations in making French the priority language in Québec.

The public voice of the Immigration Restriction League, Lodge argued on behalf of literacy tests for incoming immigrants, appealing to fears that unskilled foreign labor was undermining the standard of living for American workers and that a mass influx of uneducated immigrants would result in social conflict and national decline.

Even so, the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, prevented the Poys ' immediate entry into the country until the Department of External Affairs intervened and cited an unfilled quota in the prisoner of war exchange programme with the Japanese Imperial Forces that would permit the Poy family free passage into Canada.

Failing to do so would be a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, carrying the possibility of a fine up to $ 100 and / or imprisonment for up to 30 days for each offense.

In 2007, he was a major opponent of the McCain-Kennedy Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 ( S. 1639 ) saying that the legislation would continue the downward push of illegal aliens on the wages of American workers.

Dr. Lesi Korovavala, Chief Executive Officer of the Immigration Department described Moon's doctrines as " misleading, repugnant and divisive ," said that his visit would not be conducive to " peace, good order, public safety and public morality ," and concluded that he was " not a fit and proper person to enter the country.

In 2002 Hughes was appointed Minister of State for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism, but was forced to resign in April 2004 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-she had earlier told the House of Commons that if she had been aware of such facts she would have done something about it.

In Baker v. Canada ( Minister of Citizenship and Immigration ) ( 1999 ), the Supreme Court of Canada set out a list of non-exhaustive factors that would influence the content of the duty of fairness, including the nature of the decision being made and the process followed in making it, the statutory scheme under which the decision-maker operates, the importance of the decision to the person challenging it, the person's legitimate expectations, and the choice of procedure made by the decision-maker.

The Immigration Act of 1990 established the Diversity Visa ( DV ) program, where 55, 000 immigrant visas would be available in an annual lottery, starting in fiscal year 1995.

Sikhs had to face an amended Immigration Act in 1908 that required Sikhs to have $ 200 on arrival in Canada, and immigration would be allowed only if the passenger had arrived by continuous journey from India, which was impossible.

Jason Kenney Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism said the following in the House of Commons of Canada on June 10, 2010: " That's why we must protect the values of Canadian citizenship and must take steps against those who would cheapen it .... We will strengthen the new limitation on the ability to acquire citizenship for the second generation born abroad.

Instead, the new Immigration Rules provided that at least 20 years ' continuous residence, lawful or unlawful, would, subject to criminality and other criteria, normally be necessary to establish a claim to remain in the UK on the basis of the Article 8 right to respect for private life.

The Immigration Act 1971 allows for the deportation of those who are a threat to national security for cases where there is insufficient admissible evidence for prosecution, however a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Chahal v United Kingdom in 1996, ruled that deportation of persons to another country was not allowed if there were substantial grounds for believing that the person would be subjected to torture.

In 2007 rapper Snoop Dogg was to attend the MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2007 as a co-host on 29 April but a few days prior to the event it was announced that Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews would not grant him a Visa into the country because of past criminal convictions overseas.

* Supports the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, which would expand the definition of " law enforcement officer " under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System to include all Federal police officers, as well as Customs and Immigration Inspectors.

Immigration: Jewish immigration to Palestine under the British Mandate was to be limited to 75, 000 over the next five years, after which it would depend on Arab consent :' His Majesty's Government do not find anything in the Mandate or in subsequent Statements of Policy to support the view that the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine cannot be effected unless immigration is allowed to continue indefinitely.

The bill would change provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to provide sanctuary in Canada for American and other countries ' war resisters on moral, political or religious grounds.

In their study of the Congressional Record and committee hearings related to the Immigration Act, Mark Snyderman and Richard J. Herrnstein reported that " the testing community did not generally view its findings as favoring restrictive immigration policies like those in the 1924 Act, and Congress took virtually no notice of intelligence testing.

Immigration continued until, in the early 13th century, it was the most populous city in the Giudicato of Torres, and its last capital.

The first Parliament of Australia quickly moved to restrict immigration to maintain Australia's " British character ", and the Pacific Island Labourers Bill and the Immigration Restriction Bill were passed shortly before parliament rose for its first Christmas recess.

The new Federal Parliament, as one of its first pieces of legislation, passed the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 to " place certain restrictions on immigration and ... for the removal ... of prohibited immigrants ".

The German Immigration Company was dissolved by Meusebach himself shortly after it had served its purpose.

On March 1, 2003, DHS absorbed the Immigration and Naturalization Service and assumed its duties.

The Finnish Directorate of Immigration states on its Returnees webpage that ;

It was founded in 1908 by the Immigration Land Company of Des Moines, Iowa, and received its name from Iowans G. I. Hoffmann and Robert Beard.

On 15 February 2010, the Tribunal was abolished and its functions transferred to the new Asylum and Immigration Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal created by the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.

The administration of immigration services, including permanent residence, naturalization, asylum, and other functions became the responsibility of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services ( BCIS ), which existed only for a short time before changing to its current name, U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ).

After World War I, Congress attempted to stem the flow of immigrants, still mainly coming from Europe, by passing a law in 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 limiting the number of newcomers by assigning a quota to each nationality based upon its representation in previous U. S. Census figures.

The Immigration Minister, Damian Green, cited a number of reasons for the decision, including the discovery that more than a quarter of the students in the test sample did not in fact have leave ( permission ) to remain in the UK, that the University did not have and could not provide sufficient proof of English-language proficiency standards for some of its students, and the fact that the University was unable to confirm the attendance of its students, in some 57 % of the sampled cases.

In its 2003 indictment, the United States district court for the middle district of Florida said that on or around December 30, 1993, Al-Arian filed a false application with the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for naturalization to become a U. S. citizen.

* The Immigration and Ethnic History Society was formed in 1976 and publishes a journal for libraries and its 829 members.

The AFL intensified its opposition after 1906 and was instrumental in passing immigration restriction bills from the 1890s to the 1920s, such as the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act of 1924, and seeing that they were strictly enforced.

The underlining criticism of the dominance of the Right in the ALP is that, while incorporating a Realpolitik philosophy, it has led to the erosion of its traditional support to the Greens, particularly on some serious issues of policy, such as Economic Management, Immigration & Refugees, Tax Policy, Industrial Relations, National Security and gay marriage.

" As a young activist, Bercow was a member of the right-wing Conservative Monday Club, becoming Secretary of its Immigration and Repatriation Committee.

In the case of HRDC, the former Department of Employment and Immigration formed its nucleus.