U.S. orders new workers to process passports
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The U.S. State Department ordered about 200 recent hires on Tuesday to report to Louisiana and New Hampshire for two months to help work through a huge backlog of passport applications, officials said.
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Beginning Thursday, foreign visitors from 27 countries will be fingerprinted and photographed when they enter the United States, according to the Homeland Security Department.
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The DHS chief reveals how he'll turn state driver's licenses into internal passports. By Ryan Singel.
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Making first-time passport applicants have an interview is vital to beating identity fraud, officials say.
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The U.S. government promised on Tuesday to cut the waiting time for passports, as senators complained their phone lines were jammed by furious citizens caught up in a backlog of some 3 million applications.
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Vancouver, British Columbia office will house international workers caught in immigration tangle.
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The Pentagon has added new procedures to ensure that senior officials seeking employment in industry abide by the rules governing post-government work.
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State Department officials will meet a fall deadline for a congressionally mandated program for issuing visas with biometric indicators, but a Government Accountability Office report indicated that federal officials haven&#39;t provided comprehensive
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The U.S. immigration service reversed itself again on "green cards" on Tuesday, saying it would begin immediately accepting applications from thousands of foreign professional workers.
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Children will be exempt from new rules that will require travelers to show passports when entering the U.S. at land or sea borders, the Bush administration announced on Thursday.
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All visitors from Europe and elsewhere  were fingerprinted and photographed upon arrival at U.S.  airports on Thursday as part of a new, heightened effort by  authorities to secure American borders.
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The U.S. government will take prints   of all 10 fingers of foreigners entering the United States and   compare them with those found at sites with ties to terrorists,   the country's security chief said on Friday.
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The Bush administration yesterday unveiled dozens of new questions that may be added to the nation's naturalization test, and immigration advocates are concerned that the changes could make it more difficult for millions of legal immigrants to become U.S. citizens.
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Immigrants who want to become British citizens will need to pass tests to "prove their worth", under new plans.
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The Bush administration wants travel agents to help conduct new background checks on European and Asian travelers who do not need visas to enter the United States, officials said on Friday.
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City officials have approved a plan to offer illegal immigrants identification cards that would let them open bank accounts and use other services that may be unavailable without driver's licenses or state-issued IDs.
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U.S. and Canadian children will be exempt from new rules that will require travelers to show passports when entering the U.S. at land or sea borders, a move the Bush administration said Thursday is aimed at helping families and school groups.