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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 3.1.21 With apologies to the late, great Tim Russert … The top three issues facing the 2021 Florida Legislature are COVID, COVID, COVID. It’s no surprise that just about everything that will happen during the 60-day Session will be directly or indirectly related to the pandemic or influenced by the countless ways it has changed life in our state. From health care policy to the budget, from education policy to the environment, the Session will seem like all COVID-19, all the time. Even where legislation do...

Print Armin Deroee measures his family’s separation in moments missed: graduations, Nowruz celebrations and the birth of his niece, Niki. For the last six years, he and his sister have been fighting for their parents to secure green cards — the final step before the elderly couple could leave Iran and move to California to be with their children. Their mother, Mina, received her immigrant visa in 2016. But their father, Ebrahim, was waiting on the results of a background check by U.S. officials when in 2017 the Trump administration passed its first version of a travel ban on Muslim-major...

January 29, 2021 US president Joe Biden’s quest for a de-Trumpification of US policies started at a fast pace, with the new president signing 25 executive orders a few hours after his inauguration. One of them was to reverse the “Muslim ban“, which served as great news for Nigerians. Last February, then president Trump added Nigeria to an expanded list of visa bans which was initially just Muslim-majority countries. Nigerians were prevented from being able to apply for permanent immigrant visas to the US. This stopped family and spousal reunion, and skill-based immigrants and the firms ...

1,495 views       The Department of State announced at the beginning of October the Diversity Visa 2022 Program (DV-2022). The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program makes available up to 55,000 diversity visas (DVs) each year, drawn from random selection among all entries, to persons who meet strict eligibility requirements from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Applicants may submit entries for the DV-2022 program electronically at dvprogram.state.gov, between Wednesday, October 7, 2020, and Tuesday, November 10, 2020. No late entries or paper entries will be a...

Updated Jan. 5 TAMPA — For millions of people living in the United States, it’s the most important test they’ll ever take. And it just got harder. Immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship must answer 12 out of 20 test questions correctly as of Dec. 1, double the longstanding requirement of 6 out of 10. That may not sound like a lot considering all that’s at stake, but it reflects just a sample of what applicants must know to be confident of passing. The 20 questions posed to any one individual are drawn from a list of 128, up from 100 before. Eighty-eight of the questions are n...