Safety of diversity visa program questioned

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  September 23, 2007 ;     395 words ......diversity visa program. The State Department IG recommended...status. The State Department has taken...diversity visa program, but the...posts. The State Department did not consider...diversity visa program to be targeted...

State Detains Reporter Over Leaked Saudi Cable; National Review Writer...

The Washington Post;  July 13, 2002 ;     684 words ...State Department officials detained a young...Mowbray criticized the visa program in a series of reports, Secretary of State Colin Powell asked for...Assistant Secretary of State Mary Ryan. National Review...good nose for things." State Department spokeswoman Brenda ...

State Dept. Reviews Visa Program

AP Online;  October 12, 2001 ;     600 words ......State Dept. Reviews Visa Program WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department is reviewing a program...Congress Friday the State Department is reviewing the ``visa...countries. According to the State Department Web site, the participating...

GAO Finds U.S. Visa Program Subject to Fraud Risks, Complications

Targeted News Service;  September 26, 2007 ;     529 words ......the national Diversity Visa Program for aliens entering the...Fraud Risks Complicate State's Ability to Manage Diversity Visa Program," was sent to Rep. Bennie...to which the Diversity Visa Program is diversifying the U...vulnerabilities." The Diversity Visa ...

Smugglers, criminals abuse visa program: Passes designed for skilled...

The Washington Times;  May 6, 1999 ;     669 words ...A visa program that allows skilled technology...percent of some 3,200 visa applications. The problem...rampant in both the H-1B visa program and the L-1 visa program, which allows employees...Williams-Bridgers, the State Department's inspector-general...said Mr. ...

STATE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY SPOKESMAN TOM H. CASEY HOLDS STATE DEPARTMENT...

Political Transcript Wire;  September 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ...STATE DEPARTMENT REGULAR NEWS BRIEFING SEPTEMBER 25, 2007 SPEAKER: STATE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY SPOKESMAN TOM H. CASEY...Ms. Bhutto to meet people in the State Department during her visit? Is she coming...the GAO report on the Diversity Visa Program. First, it did talk about ...

State Dept. Paper Criticizes Visa Program

AP Online;  December 19, 2002 ;     635 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: WASHINGTON State Department procedures for awarding visas to foreigners...procedures were so flawed that the State Department at every level must rethink its approach...senior Republican senators that the State Department's failure to follow its own visa ...

Changes in Student Visa Program May Cut Summer Labor Force in Cape Cod,...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......changes to a popular student visa program raise the question of...programs. Workers in the H2B visa program are sponsored by a Cape...designated by the U.S. State Department for educational and cultural...of J-1s issued by the state department jumped about 40 ...

2008 DIVERSITY VISA PROGRAM OPEN TILL DEC. 3

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 3, 2006 ;     70 words ...The U.S. Embassy issued the following press release: Our State Department Web site for the 2008 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2008) is now open. The application submission period for DV-2008 is from 12:00PM EDT (GMT -5) on October 4, 2006 to 12:00PM...

Processing of Iraqi Refugees Improves, Officials Say; State Department...

The Washington Post;  November 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......for resettlement, State Department official James Foley...and the other is a visa program created by legislation...months per family. The State Department must first determine...States. The special visa program has other complications...the faster special visa ...

Homeland Security Department to Oversee Visa Program; Move Would Limit...

The Washington Post;  August 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ......amid increasing criticism that the State Department has handed them out too easily, especially...enforcement community contend that the State Department has been too accommodating to visa...courtesy to the host country. "For the State Department, visas are considered first and ...

State Department demands source of classified material on visas

AP Worldstream;  July 13, 2002 ;     365 words ......magazine said Friday that State Department officials demanded he...had obtained on the U.S. visa program in Saudi Arabia and detained...Service officials. But a State Department official, declining to...earlier, during the daily State Department press briefing, ...

`T visa' program will assist victims.(A)(Nation)

The Washington Times;  January 25, 2002 ;     604 words ......yesterday announced the creation of a new visa program aimed at protecting people - particularly...labor on farms and in factories. A State Department study last year found that 23 countries...international human trafficking. The State Department list also cited Romania, Turkey and...

American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998: balancing...

Cornell Law Review;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the dominant participant in the H-1B visa program.(9) Prior to the 1998 congressional...of this limitation, the existing H-1B visa program could no longer meet the high-tech industry...skilled workers under the existing H-1B visa program, the high-tech industry actively lobbied...

STATE DEPARTMENT CONDUCTS DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, SEPT. 25

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......for Ms. Bhutto to meet people in the State Department during her visit? Is she coming over...about the GAO report on the diversity visa program. First, it did talk about how 10,000...terrorist-sponsoring states have used the Diversity Visa Program. I was wondering - MR. CASEY: Can ...