Senate Panel Advances U.S. Immigration Bill With Hatch's Changes

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a major overhaul of immigration law Tuesday after legalization of same-sex spouses was stripped from the bill. Share article By a vote of 13-5, the panel approved a nearly 900-page package that would put 11 ...

The first step in passing major immigration legislation The bill offers the biggest changes to immigration law in almost 30 years. The committee's action clears the way for a full-fledged Senate The latest supporter of the bill is Sen. Orrin Hatch, ...

US-USA-CONGRESS-IMMIGRATION: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial to the passage of an immigration law overhaul, on Tuesday vowed to fight for a biometric system that would track foreigners entering ...

Republicans in the House and Senate are insisting that a revision of immigration law include ways to prevent foreigners from staying in the U.S. on expired visas. A House panel will hear testimony today on the potential national security ...

Movement in both the House and Senate on revising U.S. immigration law belies a long-running rift between business and labor that could derail the bill. After four years of negotiations, a bipartisan group of House members who struck a deal on a ...

WASHINGTON -- Some Alabama physicians and physician assistants were surprised this week to receive a letter with a new demand from the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners: Show us

This week, the far-reaching US Immigration Reform Bill is taking a step closer to being made into law. But here's why this could be bad news for Indian IT —considering the Bill proposes sweeping changes to H1B-visa policies and promotes domestic ...

The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The law ...

An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says he's not surprised the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request to revive portions of Alabama's immigration law. Supreme Court justices on Monday upheld a federal appeals court ruling ...