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Neues Wahlrecht für Auslandsdeutsche in Kraft

May 7, 2013

Am 3. Mai 2013 ist die Neuregelung des Wahlrechts für Auslandsdeutsche in Kraft getreten. Demnach können jetzt gemäß der neuen Fassung des § 12 Absatz 2 Satz 1 Bundeswahlgesetz (BWG) auch diejenigen Deutschen wählen, die am Wahltag außerhalb der Bundesrepublik Deutschland leben, sofern sie entweder nach Vollendung ihres 14. Lebensjahres mindestens drei Monate ununterbrochen in…

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Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to be the Next Secretary of Transportation

April 29, 2013

The cat is out of the bag. After weeks of speculation as to why Charlotte’s mayor Anthony Foxx declined to run for re-election to the city’s highest office, the White House officially confirmed that President Obama will nominate the Charlottean native today, Monday, April 29th as Secretary of Transportation. The nomination will come one day…

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Bundestagswahlen in Deutschland – Kanzlerkandidaten

April 25, 2013

Am 22. September diesen Jahres finden die Bundestagswahlen in Deutschland statt. Hier finden Sie einen kurzen Überblick über die Kanzlerkandidaten der verschiedenen Parteien. Angela Merkel Die regierende Bundeskanzlerin wird für die Union aus CDU und CSU nach 2005 und 2009 erneut für eine dritte Amtszeit kandidieren. Die 59jährige studierte Physikerin belegte 2012 den zweiten Rang in der…

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North Carolina Legislative Update

April 25, 2013

Transportation Plan Gov. Pat McCrory announced a new transportation plan in April. The so-called “strategic mobility formula,” selects projects based on objective data and local input. Under the proposal, all modes of transportation compete for the same funds. The new plan would fund 260 projects and create more than 240,000 jobs over the next 10…

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The Fallout of Sequester Cuts

April 25, 2013

While every community has, in some way, been affected by the “sequester” imposed on March 1 of this year, it took almost 2 months for the general public – the traveling kind anyway – to start feeling its widespread effects. On Sunday, April 20th, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration furloughed all 47,000 agency employees, including…

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TSA Delays Its Decision to Allow Knives on Planes

April 24, 2013

Pressure from flight attendant unions and politicians resulted in the TSA “temporarily delaying” its decision from March 5, to allow certain knives, tools and other implements that could be used as weapons on board airplanes (see our blog entry regarding the new ruling). This policy was supposed to free up screeners and alert them to more…

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Das deutsche Generalkonsulat in Atlanta warnt

April 24, 2013

Eine Nachricht vom Sicherheitsbeauftragten des deutschen Generalkonsulats in Atlanta nach den Bombenanschlägen in Boston: Die Anschläge in Boston entsprechen dem traditionellen Muster: Gefährdet sind in besonderem Maße Menschenansammlungen, symbolträchtige Tage und Orte. In Atlanta haben Bürgermeister Reed, die Atlanta Braves (die…in den kommenden Wochen spielen) und das Nahverkehrssystem MARTA Erklärungen veröffentlicht, dass sie ihre Sicherheitsmaßnahmen…

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Immigration Reform Bill – Key Provisions

April 18, 2013

A bipartisan group of Senators, known as the “Gang of Eight” introduced their immigration reform proposal, an 844-page document, on April 17. The Obama administration reacted positively to the news that the group introduced the bill and urged the Senate “to quickly move this bill forward” and pledged to “do whatever it takes to make…

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H-1 B Lottery

April 11, 2013

On April 7, 2013, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) conducted a computer-generated random lottery of the entire H-1B cap for FY 2014 petitions received from April 1 – April 5, 2013. The agency received approximately 124,000 H-1B petitions during the filing period, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption. According to the agency,…

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USCIS Reaches FY 2014 H-1B Cap

April 6, 2013

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 5, 2013 hat it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2014. USCIS has also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption. After April…

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