The US Green Card Lottery: one family's story
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15:50 28/11/2005
Klaus and Flavia Westerwelle seldom play lotteries. They've already hit the big one. The Associated Press reports. The evidence can be spotted on the living-room wall of their Eastside home: 15 hand-...
Number of foreign students in US rising
16:01 08/11/2005
The number of new international graduate students enrolling in American universities appears to have increased slightly this autumn following three years of decline. The figure rose 1 percent...
Study compares fertility rates among US immigrants
13:22 13/10/2005
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that women from the top-ten immigrant-sending countries to the US collectively have higher fertility than women in their home countries. As...
Dependent spouses of US H-1B visa holders often frustrated
10:45 11/10/2005
For thousands of immigrant women professionals who arrive in the United States as spouses on their husbands' visas, being forced to stay at home and not work is difficult and depressing. The...
New Irish "Green Card" system planned for skilled workers
16:42 29/09/2005
A new 'green card' system planned by the Irish government will allow highly skilled workers coming to Ireland to bring their families with them and allow spouses to work as soon as they want...
Kenyan man becomes US citizen, wins lottery on same day
19:32 28/09/2005
Shortly after Moses Bittok took the oath of citizenship last week, he discovered he won $1.89 million in the Iowa Lottery's Hot Lotto game. "It's almost like you adopted a country and then they...
