News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
As part of its ongoing outreach initiative for Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans participated in the Greater New Orleans Human Trafficking Task Force law enforcement symposium Jan. 13.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
A Joplin man pleaded guilty in federal court Jan. 24 to receiving and distributing child pornography following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and law enforcement partner investigation.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Taekuk Cho and United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Aaron Joseph Kearney, 50, of Lincoln, to 13 years imprisonment for possession of child pornography on Jan. 20
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Taekuk Cho and United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that a jury found Dalonte Foard, 25, of Omaha, Nebraska, guilty Jan. 24 after a four-day trial in federal court for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking following an HSI and law enforcement partner investigation.
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
DRL Advancing Women's Leadership in the Promotion of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the Southeast Asia and Pacific Region grant opened on Feb. 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Launched in April 2021, the Western District of Oklahoma Coronavirus Fraud Task Force is getting results. The Task Force combines the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on programs...
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 18,216 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2023 with start dates on or before March 31, 2023, under the recently announced H-2B supplemental cap temporary final rule.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today new designs to improve security of Permanent Resident Cards (also known as Green Cards) and Employment Authorization Documents (EADs). USCIS will begin issuing the redesigned cards on Jan. 30, 2023.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today released its FY 2023-2026 Strategic Plan (PDF, 6.79 MB) (PDF, 6.79 MB), which provides a roadmap for the agency’s workforce to better strengthen its capabilities and help the country reach its highest ideals.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year 2024 H-1B cap will open at noon Eastern on March 1 and run through noon Eastern on March 17, 2023.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today posted a Federal Register notice on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.
By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is extending certain COVID-19-related flexibilities through March 23, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: SAN ANGELO, TX-The FBI Dallas Field Office and FBI San Angelo Resident Agency partnered with the San Angelo Police Department (SAPD) to serve as the host for federal civil rights training for regional law enforcement this week.
By DOE Newswire Report | Feb 1, 2023
The U.S. DOE awarded a $3.2 million grant to a group of scientists from FSU, Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Arizona to study the status of carbon stored in peatlands.
By Homeland Newswire Report | Feb 1, 2023
Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Sec. of Homeland Security, observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27 with an acknowledgement of the global commemoration and a personal connection.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
Fifth- through 12th-grade students are returning to in-person studies at Argonne National Laboratory, one of the world's preeminent science and engineering laboratories.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
A national forest that's also the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world is again under federal protection from road construction and timber harvests.
By State Newswire Report | Feb 1, 2023
A Lebanon-based economist and "so-called financial expert" is among the individuals being sanctioned by U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for providing financial services to a militant group.
