By Michael Youssef | Fox News
I was born into the ancient Christian community in Egypt during a time of great social change, but I was also an American in my heart long before I ever became a citizen. Why did I — and why do countless others around the world — dream of coming to America?
Continue reading “American dream — Even amid the turmoil this immigrant believes. Here’s why”
By Yahia Hatim | Morocco World News
A new reform to the Quebec experience program, known as PEQ, has sparked outrage among Moroccan students and workers in Quebec, Canada, who were hoping to apply for permanent residency in the French-speaking province.
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Gustavo Palencia | Rueters
Migrants from Africa and the Caribbean, stranded in Honduras after Central American countries closed their borders to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, on Wednesday kept marching north in an attempt to reach the United States.
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By AFP
Fear of deportation. Fear of facing an unpayable bill. Fear of becoming a “public charge” and unable to obtain legal status. These are some of the reasons undocumented migrants including Africans are avoiding hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, many have contracted the disease and died, and the novel coronavirus is spreading with little check in the community.
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by ASTRID GALVAN | The Associated Press
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has sued the federal government over its denial of coronavirus relief payments to U.S. citizens who are married to immigrants without social security numbers.
Continue reading “Lawsuit: US citizens with immigrant spouses should get help”
As the US governments starts the distribution of Covid 19 stimulus Checks, some citizens are being discriminated against for being immigrants living in what’s known as a mixed immigration status household.
by Shannon Dooling | WBUR News
Continue reading “Some U.S. Citizens Aren’t Getting a Stimulus Check because they have immigrant spouses”
By Betsy Klein, Priscilla Alvarez and Kevin Liptak | CNN
Trump administration officials are scrabbling to finalize an executive order after President Donald Trump said in a late-night tweet he would temporarily suspend immigration to the United States as the nation battles the health and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Chidinma Irene Nwoye | Quartz Africa
When it comes to the polls, black African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States are becoming a force to reckon with owing to a fast-growing population. Between 2010 and 2018, the number of African and Caribbean immigrants in the U.S. rose by 30% to 4.3 million people from 3.3 million, according to a recent report from the bipartisan research group, New American Economy. Their growth has consequently led to more eligible Black immigrant voters.
Continue reading “The untapped political power of African immigrants in the US is set to take off”
By Carlos Echeverria-Estrada and Jeanne Batalova|Migration Policy Institute
There were very few sub-Saharan Africans in the United States just a few decades ago, with under 150,000 residents in 1980. Since then, immigrants from some of the largest sub-Saharan countries, such as Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Somalia, and South Africa, have settled in the United States. Overall, more than 2 million immigrants have come from the 51 countries that comprise sub-Saharan Africa, making up 84 percent of the 2.4 million immigrants from the entire African continent. The remainder are from the six countries of North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia.
Continue reading “The truth about Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in the United States”
By PMnews
The United States is luring medical professionals all over the world to come to help fight COVID-19 pandemic. A country that had hitherto shut its doors against migrants has now rolled out the red carpet to welcome them.
In a Twitter post , the State Department put out an invitation to medical professionals all over the world, and that will include, we guess, professionals from countries the Trump administration has banned.
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by Ann Brown| Moguldom
Under the Trump administration, African and other Black immigrants have been deported at higher rates than other immigrants, and no one is paying much attention. In 2015, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 1,293 African immigrants, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security. Since the 2016 election, raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Black immigrant communities has revved up. That number has since gone up.
Continue reading “African Immigrants Are Being Deported At High Rates”
By The Associated Press
President Donald Trump isn’t the only world leader making it virtually impossible for many Africans to get asylum in the United States. He’s getting plenty of help from allies in the Americas. Ecuador is closing its doors as one of the few countries in North and South America to welcome African visitors, depriving them of a starting point for their dangerous journeys north by land.
Continue reading “Trump Allies in Americas Block Africans’ Path to US Asylum”
By: Daniel Waldron and Sanwar Ali Edited by: Sanwar Ali
The US House Judiciary Committee voted on Wednesday to proceed with a bill that would if enacted repeal Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim majority countries. It would also prevent future bans based on religion.
Continue reading “Donald Trump US visa travel ban repeal bill advances”
By Pat Ruff
Moses Idris was asked what his life might look like once he’s finished high school.
Idris is a 6-feet-3, 190-pound Austin High School senior and starter on one of the top basketball programs in the state. Like the majority of the players on this team — three of them starters — Idris is of South Sudanese descent.
Continue reading “Austin’s basketball rebirth: Sudanese have given, received so much”
President Trump’s recent decision to add Nigeria to the restricted travel list not only surprised the Nigerian government, but also many Houston businesses that provide services for the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
Continue reading “The Nigerian Immigration Ban And Its Potential Impact On Houston Employers”
The Trump administration has expanded its travel ban to six more countries, including Nigeria — the largest economy in Africa. While Nigerian students and travelers are still welcome to visit — it’s family members immigrating to the U.S. who are blocked from coming here.
Continue reading “Nigerian Couple ‘Heartbroken’ As Families Face Indefinite Visa Ban”
By Yomi Kazeem
The exodus of Nigerian immigrants to Canada is showing no signs of slowing down.
For the fifth year in a row, more Nigerians emigrated to Canada than the year before as data published by the Canadian government shows the number of Nigerians issued permanent resident permits has tripled since 2015.
Continue reading “The number of Nigerian immigrants to Canada has tripled in the last five years”
Green cards allow immigrants to live and work in the United States, legally and permanently, before they can seek American citizenship through naturalization.
To apply for permanent lawful U.S. residence, non-citizens must qualify under one of eight categories. Each category has different eligibility requirements that applicants must meet when they submit their petitions.
Continue reading “Green cards are only available to immigrants who fall under one of these categories”
One of the Bayou City’s biggest immigrant gateways, southwest Houston, is a dangerous and daunting place for pedestrians.
BY PETER HOLLEY
Until January, Merci Madilu and his older brother, Espoir, had spent most of their existence in a refugee camp in the landlocked Central African nation of Burundi, where they shared a one-room, mud-walled shelter with their mother and eight younger siblings.
Continue reading “This Family Survived an African Refugee Camp. Their New Challenge: Surviving Houston Without a Car. “
Nigerians have become central figures in the most heavily reported Canadian migration story in recent years, as the largest cohort streaming through Canada’s most controversial entry-point: the ditch at Roxham Road, in small-town Quebec, that became a magnet for asylum seekers.
More quietly, though, Nigerians are playing a significant role in this country’s overall immigration story: the numbers of people arriving through conventional channels—mainly as skilled workers—have spiked, nearly tripling since 2016.
Continue reading “Trump is turning Canada into a haven for the world’s best and brightest”
President Donald Trump has added Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, to a list of countries whose residents face restrictions on travel into the United States. With the new policy set to take effect on Feb. 22, here are some fast facts about Nigeria and its immigrants in the U.S., based on previously published Pew Research Center studies.
Continue reading “Fast facts about Nigeria and its immigrants as U.S. travel ban expands”
By JOEY PETERS
Esther Agbaje had been hearing for months that the Trump administration might target Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, for new restrictions on legal immigration. But it was still a shock when official word came down on Friday.
Agbaje’s parents moved from Nigeria three decades ago. Some family members there still hope to move to Minnesota, Agbaje said, but if the new policy takes effect, it will likely complicate that.
Continue reading “MINNESOTANS RALLY AGAINST TRUMP’S NEW VISA CURBS”
By Yomi Kazeem
The Trump administration’s controversial visa and travel bans has now been extended to include four more African countries.
The new restrictions will see the United States no longer issue immigrant visas that offer a path to permanent residency, and possibly citizenship, to nationals of Nigeria and Eritrea, US officials have confirmed.
Continue reading “Nigeria most hit by Trump’s new visa ban on four African countries”
Immigrants who obtain legal permanent resident status in the United States and those who, later, become naturalized U.S. citizens, often long for their close relatives — both abroad and inside the country — to follow their successful immigration journey.
There are several ways to help an eligible family member to immigrate to the U.S., but almost always this complex process begins with the submission of an essential form to establish the relationship between the applicant and the beneficiary.
Continue reading “It’s now faster for immigrants to help their relatives become U.S. residents. Here’s how”
In northern New England, an aging population has hamstrung growth, but immigration could provide heft for the workforce.
By Alfonso Serrano
Born in Somalia, Abdullahi Ali grew up in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in Maine in the United States on a brisk day 10 years ago this month.
Continue reading “As economic growth languishes, state of Maine banks on immigrants”
By Chidinma Irene Nwoye & Dan Kopf
Africa has the fastest-growing number of immigrants in the United States, according to a Quartz analysis of US Census Bureau data.
The number of African migrants grew at a rate of almost 50% from 2010 to 2018. This is more than double the growth rate of migration to the US from Asia, South America or the Caribbean.
Continue reading “African migration to the United States is the fastest-rising—in spite of Trump”
“Africa weeps. Free us.”
That’s the message handwritten in French and Spanish on a protest bannerat a tent city here in the southernmost tip of Mexico.
The tents belong to some 250 African nationals who crossed jungles, forded rivers, sneaked across borders and dodged militias and thieves to get here in hopes of eventually reaching the United States. But now they are stuck, because Mexico has denied them the travel visas necessary to proceed north.
Continue reading “African migrants stuck in southern Mexico, their American dream on hold”
A mother and daughter are excited for a fresh start after receiving the keys to their new Habitat for Humanity home on Sunday.
Alphosine and her daughter Esther are originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, but they were living in a refugee camp in Uganda before coming to America.
Continue reading “Congolese refugees become newest Habitat homeowners in Lexington”
By Kirk Siegler
It’s the first day of school in Missoula, Mont., and Elongo Gabriel, a Congolese refugee, is dropping off his young son and two daughters.
A proud father, he has a wide grin. “For me it’s like a dream to get a chance for my kids to study here,” he says.
Continue reading “Popular Refugee Resettlement Programs Closing Under Trump Administration”
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