Browsing Tag: Immigration

Ms. Blanchette-Lamothe was especially impressed by the engagement of Sikh youth. “I am particularly impressed by the involvement of the youth in the promotion of Punjabi arts and culture and, even more, in their interest to share their culture with their fellow citizens," she said.

The government has eased restrictions on tourist visas which had mandated a two-month gap between consecutive visits by foreign nationals.

Canada is steadily becoming a nation of many languages, as recent waves of immigration turn the country's main cities into a translator's paradise.

Joined action by UK and Netherlands based individuals and organisations has resulted in a Dutch judge putting the extradition of an Afghan Sikh family, a mother 2 daughters and a son on hold.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants from India are sleeping rough in appalling conditions in west London, a Sky News investigation can reveal.

If people face dire economic straits, “you try and sell your land and go abroad,” Kumar said. “If you’re prosperous, still you go abroad because, culturally, it gives you a higher status.”

Between 1905 and 1908 a little over 5000 Sikhs arrived in British Columbia. In the eyes of the British Columbians of the time this was nothing short of an invasion. After all, this was supposed to be a white man’s province and British Columbians were determined to keep it that way.

Thousands of immigrants from India have crossed into the United States illegally at the southern tip of Texas in the last year, part of a mysterious and rapidly growing human-smuggling pipeline that is backing up court dockets, filling detention centers and triggering investigations.

Migrants in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world are subjected to the worst forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia..

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked some of the toughest provisions in the Arizona immigration law, putting on hold the state's attempt to enforce federal immigration policy.

Some things which I have noticed amongst the Sikhs or rather people who call themselves “sikhs” including me, tend to forget the real sikhi once they arrive in USA or “Amricaa”. For some people just wearing a turban and having a beard is being sikh; for some people just coming to gurdwara on Sundays is being sikh.

Arizona’s discriminatory position on immigration may spread to other states. In fact, at least ten other states are considering laws similar to Arizona’s, including Maryland.

This law is based on the viewpoint that anyone of color or with an accent may be in the United States illegally. It enables the police to act on this stereotype and profile anyone in Arizona who may have a darker skin complexion, appears foreign, or speaks differently.

Though most Sikh members are undocumented, many are living in Korea legally. A few community members have received F2 visas through marriages, some of which are contract marriages, and some have business visas.

The case centers around allegations of a massive fraud scheme for profit that led to hundreds of people being granted asylum in the United States after falsely claiming primarily religious persecution.

Expectant foreigners are using Canadian hospitals for passports, doctors say

BKU urges him to resolve visa, immigration hassles

King Albert II of Belgium will go to India on a nine-day state visit beginning November 3

Three of the Indian pilgrims who went missing will meet immigration officials today to provide information about the alleged scam that brought them to New Zealand.