The potential for abuse of the H-2B visas was the reason why U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services removed the Philippines from the said worker visa program. Department of Homeland Security in last Friday’s Federal Register declared the Philippines along with the Dominican Republic and Ethiopia as three countries that are no longer eligible for the H-2B visa. USCIS is one of the subordinate agencies under DHS that is currently headed by Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The DHS-USCIS decision...

Operations of the Transportation Security Administration at the CNMI international airports are not affected with the partial federal government shutdown. “We do have enough screeners,” said TSA assistant federal security director of CNMI Shawna Alldridge in a phone interview...

A man was robbed at knifepoint in broad daylight yesterday across the Commonwealth Casino Commission office on Middle Road. At around 10:40am yesterday, the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services and the Department of Public Safety were seen responding to an incident...

Saipan Chamber of Commerce president Velma Palacios said local businesses are directly impacted by the decision of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to remove the Philippines from the H-2B visa program, especially with the islands of Saipan and Tinian still recovering...