Visa Process
Overseas, foreign service officers and US consular posts issue all visas; you must obtain your first visa from a consular officer outside the US. These consuls work for the Department of State, an agency of the federal government that controls foreign affairs. Each US consular post determines its own filing procedures, and not all consular [...]
Illegals Immigration Issues
By 1986 the US was facing the biggest immigration wave since the turn of the century. Only this time the majority of immigrants were from Latin America and Asia. The West Coast of the US and the border states with Mexico and Cuba bore the brunt of these new arrivals. By some estimates, the number [...]