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Section 1244 of this legislation, entitled "Special Immigrant Status for Certain Iraqis", as amended by section 1 of Public Law 110-244, enacted on January 3, 2008, authorizes 5,000 Special Immigrant Visas (The Kennedy SIV Program for Iraqi Nationals Who Worked for or on Behalf of the U.S. Government) per annum for Iraqi employees and/or contractors for fiscal years 2008 through 2012.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Iraq in 1930 and opened a legation in Baghdad. The legation was upgraded to an embassy in 1946. A new building was designed by Josep Lluís Sert in 1955 and completed in 1957, with its main priority on keeping the building cool rather than to ensure security.
35 miles south of Baghdad Camp: Camp Apache Camp Gunner Main: Adhamiya: Baghdad [5] Camp: Arkansas: Al Salam: Baghdad: Al Salam Palace Camp: Arrow: Ad-Dawr/Tikrit: Salah ad Din: Camp: Avalanche: Abu Ghraib: Baghdad: Abu Ghraib Prison Camp: Babylon: Hilla: Babil: April 2003: January 2005: Dismantled: HQ of 1st Marine Expeditionary Force [6] Used ...
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Approximately seven mortar rounds landed in the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad during an attack early on Friday, a U.S. military official told Reuters, in what ...
A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad caused minor damage but no casualties on Friday morning, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack was the first on the embassy located in ...
Baghdad Argentina: Embassy 1992 [46] Belgium: Embassy Unknown [47] Belarus: Embassy 2017 Cyprus: Embassy Unknown Denmark: Embassy 2024 Ethiopia: Embassy Unknown Georgia: Embassy Unknown [48] Ireland: Embassy 1990 [49] Kazakhstan: Embassy 2003 Mexico: Embassy 1986 [50] New Zealand: Embassy 2020 [51] Nigeria: Embassy Unknown [52] Norway: Embassy ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is adding 350 more troops to help protect the American Embassy in Baghdad and its support facilities in the capital, raising the number of U.S. forces in the country to ...
The Averting Loss of Life and Injury by Expediting SIVs (ALLIES) Act is a bipartisan piece of legislation that would remove or revise some statutory requirements in the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) process and designed to expedite the SIV process and increase the total number of visas available by several thousand. [1]