This report analyzes the major provisions of the REAL ID Act, as enacted, which, inter-alia modifies the eligibility criteria for asylum and withholding of removal; limits judicial review of certain immigration decisions; provides additional waiver authority over laws. expands the scope of terror-related activity making an alien inadmissible or deportable,...
BILLERICA, Mass. -- Viisage (Nasdaq: VISG), a leading provider of advanced technology identity solutions, today announced that the Departments of Transportation/Motor Vehicles in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Maryland and Arkansas have awarded new contracts or extensions to the company for innovative solutions to help provide security in the states' driver's licensing processes...
WASHINGTON, May 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.), the author of the REAL ID Act (H.R. 418), issued the following statement following today's Senate passage of the supplemental appropriations conWASHINGTON, May 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr....
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff today announced he will exercise his authority under the REAL ID Act to waive certain legal requirements to complete the 14-mile border fence near SanWASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary...
WASHINGTON, May 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) praised the inclusion of his REAL ID Act (H.R. 418) legislation in the supplemental conference report filed last night. This final agreement is eWASHINGTON, May 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman F....
WASHINGTON -- Two former government officials with expertise on the REAL ID Act are available to comment on the final regulations for REAL ID, expected imminently from the Department of Homeland Security DHS. Former counsel to the 9/11 Commission Janice Kephart helped draft the Commission's recommendation that eventually became REAL...
The ABC News headline was intended to be alarming. Posted by "Brian Ross & the Investigative Team," the headline proclaimed: "FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control.'" According to the report by Justin Rood, the watch list, intended to help authorities keep tabs on a few of the world's worst...
BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to Deploy the Digimarc Identity Validation Suite to Improve Security of Its Driver License Issuance Process
BILLERICA, Mass. -- Viisage (Nasdaq: VISG), a leading provider of advanced technology identity solutions, today announced that six state driver service agencies have selected the Viisage AutoTestTM solutions to improve the accuracy and security of applicant testing, identity proofing, ID issuance and customer service in the driver's licensing process. The...
BILLERICA, Mass. -- Viisage Identity Solutions Suite and Viisage PROOFTM Available to Help States Implement the Most Advanced and Secure Drivers' Licenses
New 'White Label' Reports Produced by Title Companies are being Sold to Consumers as Original Real Estate Brokerage Research WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- California Real Estate Attorney Craig Nevin of Nevin, Ramos & Steele today warned California real estate brokers that issuing white label...
FORGIVE me, but I'd forgotten how political wives were supposed to behave. Cherie The Human Shopping Trolley had lived at Number 10 for so long, it had clean slipped my mind that the wife of the PM was supposed to be an asset, not a liability....
Comprehensive Wireless System Meets Mandate in Miner Act Legislation DALLAS -- Axcess International, Inc. (OTCBB: AXSI), a leading provider of Micro-Wireless business activity management solutions working together with Foundation Telecommunications Inc. and Architron Systems Inc., provided a live demonstration of a comprehensive mine communications, tracking and sensor system...
A California-based hazard-reporting company and three real estate brokerages will pay a combined $35 million--much of it to California consumers who purchased hazard-disclosure reports dating back to 1996-to settle charges the firms violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act RESPA. The Department of Housing and Urban Development claimed...
For the First Time NHD Statements Will Be Considered as Part of Regulated Real Estate Settlement Service HUD Lawsuit Resolved LOS ANGELES -- In a dramatic example of how the government and the real estate industry are working together to establish new practices for California home...
Paul Theroux, in The Great Railway Bazaar, paints a louche portrait of the capital of Laos. 'The brothels are cleaner than the hostels, marijuana is cheaper than pipe tobacco and opium is easier to find than a cold glass of beer, ' he wrote in 1975. When Theroux finally got...
Costco Wholesale Corporation ("Costco")(NASDAQ: COST) today reported net sales of $7.14 billion for the month ofJune, the five weeks ended July 6, 2008, an increase of 12 percent from$6.35 billion in the same five-week period last year. For the first forty-four weeks of its reporting period ended July...