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The article looks at the rough treatment of foreigners traveling into the U.S. with faulty visa papers. Department of Homeland Security officials have acknowledged that with increased efforts to keep terrorists out of the U.S. since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, some mistakes and harsh handling of foreigners, who only had small paperwork errors or were caught in a bureaucratic circle, had occurred.

The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed an overall increase of about 10 percent in fees for immigration documents, but kept the fee for immigrants to become United States citizens unchanged. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the fee increase was necessary because declining applications for documents in the past two years had lowered revenues and left his agency -- which is 90 percent financed by fees -- with a budget shortfall of about $200 million for the coming fiscal year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Immigration files containing a wealth of information collected by American border agents, some of it dating from the late 19th century, will be opened to the public soon and permanently preserved, providing intriguing nuggets about such famous immigrants or visitors as Alfred Hitchcock and Salvador Dali. But to millions of Americans, the real treasure will be clues about their own families' histories in the photographs, letters, interrogation transcripts and recordings that reflect the intense scrutiny faced by those trying to enter the United States during an era when it waged two world wars and adopted increasingly restrictive immigration policies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the restoration efforts of the National Park Service and Save Ellis Island organization of Ellis Island, New York. The Ferry Building is opening in 2007. This was the final building at which immigrants waited for the ferry to take them to the mainland after their immigration papers were approved.

A trove of historic archive documents dating from Catherine the Great that were stolen after the Soviet breakup were returned to Russia on Friday by the United States. The 21 documents include decrees issued by Czar Nicholas II and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, a top-secret paper on the reconstruction of Russian military airfields in the 1930s, and Catherine the Great's decree to divide command of forces in Poland during the 18th-century partitions of the country. Russian officials alerted Washington about the documents when they appeared on Web sites of American auction houses. United States officials seized them between April and November, but no one has been charged with the theft, a United States Immigration and Customs EnforcementImmigration official said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Obama administration, while deporting a record number of immigrants convicted of crimes, is sparing one group of illegal immigrants from expulsion: students who came to the United States without papers when they were children. In case after case where immigrant students were identified by federal agents as being in the country illegally, the students were released from detention and their deportations were suspended or canceled, lawyers and immigrant advocates said. Officials have even declined to deport students who openly declared their illegal status in public protests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DON'T blame it all on Arizona. The Grand Canyon State simply happened to be in the right place at the right time to tilt over to the dark side. Its hysteria is but another symptom of a political virus that can't be quarantined and whose cure is as yet unknown. If many of Arizona's defenders and critics hold one belief in common, it's that the new ''show me your papers'' law is sui generis: it's seen as one angry border state's response to its outsized share of America's illegal immigration crisis. But to label this development ''Arizona's folly'' trivializes its import and reach. The more you examine the law's provisions and proponents, the more you realize that it's the latest and (so far) most vicious battle in a far broader movement that is not just about illegal immigrants -- and that is steadily increasing its annexation of one of America's two major political parties. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses U.S. Congress is overlooking growing crisis in the U.S. legal immigration system and also mentions that legal immigrants are waiting longer than ever before for the chance to apply for green cards.

The article presents the author's opinion on the impact of rules and policies put in place by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on legal immigration to the country. The author cites data on the rate of requests for evidence (RFEs) and denials issued for H-1B and L-1 petitions by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and calls it disturbing for skilled immigrants. The author notes that the fear of deportation is high in the immigrant community.

The article focuses on the importance of teaching the history of immigration of Africans to the U.S.

The article presents questions and answers related to filing application/petition for certain H-4 dependent spouses.

The article focuses on the issues surrounding the claim of U.S. President Barack Obama that he is aiming to start negotiating for a comprehensive immigration reform.

Discusses the immigration of women and middle-class people from Mexico into the United States. Tracking of immigrants by gender by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); New immigrants being the opposite of the stereotypical Mexican migrant; Risks of illegal immigration; Job opportunities.