11.   Giraldo had gone to the downtown Manhattan immigration office for a scheduled interview with an immigration officer, one of the steps in his quest for permanent residency.

12.   He advises refugees to say away from the Salvadoran consulates and the new immigration offices.

13.   He has to report monthly to the immigration office.

14.   If no nearby bank is open, the immigration office can stamp it pending payment and final validation, which must be within a day or two.

15.   Immigrants who need fingerprints made so they can become citizens have been turned away from an Atlanta immigration office because it is too small to handle the crowds.

16.   Immigration offices in China, meanwhile, have stopped extending the visas of many people from those countries, forcing them to leave.

17.   In a tearful reunion inside the Bahamas immigration office, he was reunited with his uncle, Osilio Cruz.

18.   It would also help pay for the legal services immigrants need to apply for citizenship, interpreters and transportation to citizenship classes and immigration offices.

19.   Laterza said investigators interviewed fans at Paulino games and contacted officials at the U.S. immigration office.

20.   Lewis, who is now deputy director of the immigration service office in Baltimore, made his assertions in a complaint filed under the federal Whistleblower Protection Act.