With U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s signing last week of a bill that extends the CNMI-Only Transitional Worker program beyond 2019 and increases the CW cap limits for the fiscal year, several companies have indicated plans to proceed with ideas to expand business hours or...

A female Chinese national was sentenced on June 1, 2018, to eight months in prison for harboring illegal aliens in the CNMI. Qi Xiufang was also directed to pay a $4,000 fine and a $100 special assessment fee. She will be placed on one year of supervised release and will...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is proposing a rule to end a program that allows certain foreign entrepreneurs to be considered for parole to temporarily come to the United States to develop and build start-up businesses here, known as the International...

The Northern Mariana Islands Emergency Food and Shelter Local Board has been chosen to receive $77,220 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the CNMI. The selection was made by a national board that is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal...