Obama enacts visa program for religious workers
Jewish Journal
October 1, 2012
President Barack Obama enacted a three-year extension to a visa program for religious workers.
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Obama signs bill extending investor visa to Israelis
Jewish Journal
June 11, 2012
President Obama signed legislation that would that would add Israel to the list of countries eligible for non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
Senate unanimously approves E-2 visas for Israeli investors
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2012
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill allowing Israeli investors to reside here to oversee their businesses in this country, which backers say will spur job creation and economic growth.
House committee backs visa bill for Israeli investors
Jewish Journal
February 28, 2012
The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would add Israel to the list of countries eligible for non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
Gaza visitors must obtain visa from Hamas
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2011
Foreign visitors to Gaza must now get a visa from the ruling Hamas organization.
Ten years later, terrorists still using immigration loopholes
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2011
Terrorism and U.S. immigration policies are closely linked. We have made some progress since terrorists killed 3,000 innocent people in New York and Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, but clearly not enough.
Escape, exile, rebirth: Iranian Jewish diaspora alive and well in Los Angeles
Karmel Melamed
September 4, 2008
Thirty years have passed since the massive and violent demonstrations against the Shah of Iran that began in September 1978, and for many, the start of that country\’s bloody revolution might seem a faded memory. Yet I have carried those shattering events with me all of my life: I was born on in Tehran on Sept. 11, 1978, as chaos unfolded on the streets outside
Sion Ebrahami: I was taken hostage by the moujahadeen
Karmel Melamed
September 4, 2008
With the passage of time, we realized that these people were from three factions within the firm, which included the Mojahedeen faction, the communist faction and there were the very fanatic pro-Khomeini faction
Final aliyah flight leaves Ethiopia for Israel, U.S. revokes Fulbright winners’ visas
Jewish Journal
August 6, 2008
The last official airlift of Ethiopian Jews was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv tonight, bringing to an end a state-organized campaign that began nearly 30 years ago and brought in some 120,000 immigrants from the east African nation
More Information on Getting That Visa
Jewish Journal
September 7, 2006
The U.S. government estimates that about 40 percent of people who are in this country illegally arrived on a legal visa but lost their legal status either by overstaying or otherwise violating the terms of their visa. These are sometimes referred to as \”nonimmigrant overstayers.\”
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