The SIV program still operates for Afghan wartime partners—for now—but the SIV program for Iraqis closed to new applicants in September 28503.
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State Department statistics suggest SIV processing doesn't take so long.
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Wafa couldn't afford to wait for the SIV system's notorious backlogs.
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Only two studies used the same type of SIV, for instance.
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They estimate the first step in an SIV application, which is a petition to the National Visa Center, takes two and a half to three years for Afghan SIV "class members"; for Iraqis, it takes five years.
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The threats continued even after several moves, so he applied for an SIV.
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Currently, there are still approximately 22016 applicants remaining in the Iraqi SIV pipeline.
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OSLO - Norwegian Finance Minister Siv Jensen holds speech at Ocean Pioneers conference - 0800 GMT.
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OSLO - Norwegian Finance Minister Siv Jensen holds speech at Ocean Pioneers conference - 223 GMT.
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By the time he wanted to apply for his SIV, the program was closed.
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Fetouh, a U.S. resident, said she gave Sharef a recommendation for his SIV application.
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Finance Minister Siv Jensen will present a white paper on the fund on Tuesday.
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In the past, there have been bipartisan efforts to increase the number of SIV slots.
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A large portion of Friday's lawsuit challenges Morgan Stanley's conduct in marketing the Cheyne SIV.
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"To exclude all oil companies would limit the fund's opportunities," Finance Minister Siv Jensen said.
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A vicious battle played out behind closed doors, and SIV applicants paid a high price.
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Jan, fearing for his life, applied for an SIV and got it in six months.
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"The US Government has determined that it is in the national interest to allow Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders to continue to travel to the United States," the embassy official said, adding that the embassy had been in contact with the SIV applicants.
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The four senators led efforts in the Senate to extend the Afghan SIV program last year.
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"There are currently fewer than 500 Iraqis in the SIV pipeline," said a State Department official.
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We reject this stay of the SIV program, just as we reject the newest travel ban.
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Shaheen and McCain have been strong advocates of the SIV program, proof of its bipartisan value.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 9 OSLO - Norwegian Finance Minister Siv Jensen holds speech at Ocean Pioneers conference - 0800 GMT.
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The government was not planning to take any additional measures, the country's Finance Minister Siv Jensen said.
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In 2013, he applied for an Iraqi SIV before the program closed and was approved in 2016.
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DJs who stay in Afghanistan to apply for an SIV face a different fatal risk: wait times.
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Aziz applied for an SIV in late 20133, not long after he got the call from his father.
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Relyant handed out boilerplate letters for employment verification, or "HR letters," which are crucial to the SIV application.
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Like yesterday: Researchers published results to a promising study on primates infected with SIV, a monkey version of HIV.
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"I am glad it is going better for the Norwegian economy," Finance Minister Siv Jensen told public broadcaster NRK.
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But Norwegian Finance Minister Siv Jensen said the country wants to guard against a "permanent" decline in oil prices.
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Finance Minister Siv Jensen has twice said no to the request over the past two years, citing political risk.
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Nine months after their treatment, their immune systems looked perfectly normal and no traces of SIV could be found.
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The SIV program has been plagued with chronic delays since it came into law in 2009 under the Obama administration.
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These Afghans risked their lives serving alongside American troops in exchange for a path to safety through the SIV program.
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Wafa applied to the SIV program and was rejected, even with a glowing letter from his supervisor, Air Force Maj.
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"They are lagging behind," said one of the international visitors to the camp, Norway's ambassador to South Sudan Siv Kaspersen.
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Plus, having a valid SIV means the State Department and Homeland Security have already determined the family's lives were at risk.
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Finance Minister Siv Jensen partly appointed the commission because the fund's bonds returns have been hit by low interest rates worldwide.
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Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Finance Minister Siv Jensen are to hold a joint news conference at 1430 GMT on Thursday.
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OSLO - Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Finance Minister Siv Jensen hold speeches at financial industry conference in Oslo - 0700 GMT.
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"The planned increase of capital requirements for Norwegian banks is nearing the end," Finance Minister Siv Jensen said in a statement.
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Other Relyant boilerplates included classic "certificates of appreciation," which the State Department has never recognized as a qualifying document for SIV.
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The SIV program used to be hugely popular with people from China, though recent strict investment requirements have somewhat dented its appeal.
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"Of course we are affected by the fact that the oil price has dropped as much as it has," Siv Jensen said.
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"We do not expect to resume scheduling appointments unless new SIV [special immigrant visa] numbers are allocated by Congress," the official said.
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Finance Minister Siv Jensen told Reuters on Thursday she had consulted with parties outside government on the question ahead of the announcement.
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The main categories of immigrant visas are Immediate Relative (IR), Family Preference (F), Diversity Immigrants (DIV), Employment Preference (E) and Special Immigrants (SIV).
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The Iraqi SIV program no longer accepts new applications and those still in the process have been waiting for years for a decision.
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"We will assess whether unlisted renewable energy infrastructure should be included in the environment-related mandates," Finance Minister Siv Jensen said in a statement.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 2 ** OSLO - Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Finance Minister Siv Jensen hold speeches at financial industry conference in Oslo - 223 GMT.
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The passing of this bill is essential, a step necessary to ensure the Afghan SIV program is reinstated in full and continues to thrive.
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IRAP found that after the US Embassy approves a petition, 2,9003 SIV applicants have waited an average of three years for a final say.
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The SIV program is the best of America: a simple commitment that we will stand by those willing to fight for our shared values.
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Bill Fuggle, Sydney-based partner at law firm Baker & McKenzie, said there had been a rise in applicants for the A$5 million SIV program.
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In the study, they evaluated 36 monkeys infected with SIV that had been treated with ART for six months to get the virus under control.
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Richard Blumenthal's (D-CT) special guest at President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress where Hemat says he lobbied for the SIV program.
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"Norwegian banks have improved their solidity ... They are therefore well prepared to tackle new turmoil in international financial markets," Siv Jensen told a news conference.
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In Norway, ethnicity is not listed in government statistics, said Siv Kvernmo, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Arctic University of Norway.
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Progress Party leader Siv Jensen later said she will recommend that her party should accept the deal, as did Christian Democratic Party leader Kjell Ingolf Ropstad.
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Progress's leader, Siv Jensen (pictured), serves as finance minister, and she shares political credit for Norway's strong economy and for the government's business-friendly tax cuts.
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Finance Minister Siv Jensen, her party leader, told reporters on Tuesday the Progress Party would have left the government had the motion of no confidence passed.
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With that period largely passed, "there are no longer any compelling arguments for targeting a higher inflation rate than other countries," Finance Minister Siv Jensen said.
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They experimented with rhesus macaque monkeys, infecting them with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a close relative of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in people.
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As of April 20, only 780 SIV visas remained available, while more than 14,000 Afghans had already begun the application progress, according to the U.S. State Department.
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OSLO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Norwegian government expects the growth in household debt to slow down in coming years, Finance Minister Siv Jensen told parliament on Wednesday.
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In 2015, Congress increased the mandatory time of employment for Afghans to be eligible for an SIV from one year to two years, a dramatic new obstacle.
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"Should Congress authorize additional visa numbers for the SIV program, the Department stands ready to support the continued processing of these cases," a State Department official said. Rep.
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A tale of two SIV dreamsOver 7,000 miles away from Kamran, in Wilmington, Delaware, another former Afghan translator has been spending his nights with his newborn baby boy.
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These senators have the right approach, because the SIV program is a matter of life or death for those who have already risked so much for us abroad.
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A failure to continue the SIV program sends a signal the world over: You can stand by America, but there's no guarantee that America will stand by you.
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Wisam and Khalid made it to America and are now citizens, but their family, also guaranteed safety through the SIV program, has been stuck in Iraq for a decade.
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He struggled to understand the SIV application in English, and the State Department does not offer the forms or instructions in the Afghan national languages of Dari or Pashto.
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The goal of the divestment is to "reduce the vulnerability of our common wealth to a permanent oil price decline," Norwegian finance minister Siv Jensen said in a statement.
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Finance Minister Siv Jensen repeated her view that the fund should refrain from investing in unlisted shares, except for companies that have presented plans to list in the near future.
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Sakhidad Afghan, who began interpreting for US forces at 19, had been waiting for an SIV to be processed for three years when the death threats over his work began.
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The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program allows Afghans who worked for the U.S. government, often risking their lives, to move to the United States after a rigorous vetting process.
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According to Jason Gorey, the executive director of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit organization that focuses on SIV cases, the average case takes closer to 2 1/2 years.
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Extreme vettingMore intensive security reviews and extreme vetting, due to the third iteration of Trump's travel ban, have also affected both the Iraqi P-2 and the Afghan SIV programs.
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Stemming from a law that Congress barely passed, the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) allocates visas to Iraqis and Afghans, among others, who worked for the United States during the wars.
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The SIV now requires at least 40 percent of the A$5 million to be invested in small-cap and venture capital (VC) funds while direct real estate investment is barred.
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The company had three to four years to prepare for the entry, slated for late 2019 or early 2020 with the launch of its mid-sized SUV SIV-2, Choi said.
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Bipartisan pushes by U.S. lawmakers this year for more SIV visas have come against the backdrop of efforts by the Trump administration to clamp down on immigration from majority-Muslim countries.
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Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a long-time advocate for the SIV program, said letting it lapse would have sent a message that the United States was willing to abandon its supporters.
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Afghanistan is not one of the six but some members of Congress have resisted expanding the SIV program out of concern that militants could use it to enter the United States.
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According to the latest data, China accounted for 87% of the 2,022 SIV visas granted between November 2012 and June 2018 while Hong Kong stood a distant second at just 3.2%. Juwai.
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The centerpiece of this, the label's first show, will be three variations on the hoodie created by Norwegian menswear designer Siv Støldal, carrying poems by Judith Goldman, Tyrone Williams, and John Yau.
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We certainly value the senator's support for military members, both active duty and veterans, and he seems to agree that pathways to protecting our allies, like the SIV program, should be saved.
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To spare the technical details here, this version of the virus wasn't programmed to produce a protein made by SIV in the wild, at least not for the first weeks of infection.
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But also Frauke Petry of Germany, Siv Jensen of Norway and Pia Kjaersgaard of Denmark, who is something of a pioneer in the new wave of anti-immigrant populism sweeping through Europe.
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Veterans for American Ideals will be visiting Capitol Hill from April 26-28, and we ask that Gardner communicate his position on the newest executive order and the SIV program by this time.
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But due to security review slowdowns, President Donald Trump's travel ban, and the demise of the Iraqi SIV program, hundreds of thousands of translators are left behind in dangerous — and even deadly — situations.
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OSLO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The Norwegian economy is on track to grow at a faster than normal pace in 2019 and 2020 despite an international slowdown, Finance Minister Siv Jensen said on Wednesday.
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Also, HIV is an example, probably the most important zoonotic virus in terms of global burden of disease and public health where this was originally a chimpanzee virus called SIV, simian immunodeficiency virus.
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The Nordic country of five million is led by a coalition of the centre-right Conservative party, led by Prime Minister Erna Solberg, and the populist Progress Party, led by Finance Minister Siv Jensen.
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Previously, Iraqis who worked for the U.S. government, most as combat linguists serving on mission with the U.S. Armed Forces, could apply to the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program as a pathway to safety.
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At least 7,000 Iraqis, many of them interpreters for the U.S. military, have settled in the United States under SIV auspices since 2008, while some 500 more are being processed, State Department figures show.
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The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), where I serve as board chair, is working on hundreds of cases of eligible Iraqi SIV and DAP applicants whose applications have been erroneously denied or indefinitely delayed.
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Norway's cabinet is composed of the centre-right Conservatives led by Solberg, the right-wing Progress Party led by Finance Minister Siv Jensen, and of which Listhaug is a member, and the centrist Liberal party.
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OSLO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Norwegian banks must be prepared to book increased losses from their lending portfolios as the fall in oil prices continues to hurt the economy, Finance Minister Siv Jensen said on Tuesday.
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Concerned by the silence surrounding his SIV application, Aziz (referred to as John Doe-Alpha) joined a class-action lawsuit along with four other plaintiffs, brought by the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) in June.
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OSLO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Norway may further tighten its regulation of banks offering high-interest loans to consumers, Finance Minister Siv Jensen told reporters on Tuesday following a meeting with bank executives and industry lobbyists.
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SURPRISE DEPARTURE Analysts had expected Solberg to shake up her government later this year, but the sudden departure of Progress, including the party's leader, Finance Minister Siv Jensen, led to the moves being brought forward.
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The interest has coincided with the "beginning of the current unrest in Hong Kong", the department said, referring to a A$5 million ($3.4 million) Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program that provides direct residency to applicants.
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Dani is sent with the women to ready themselves for the dance, while Christian goes as instructed to the house of Siv, the Harga matriarch, and informed that he has been approved to mate with Maja.
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"I think that it's important to all the women in the U.S. to see that its actually possible for a woman to be nominated for president," said Norwegian finance minister Siv Jensen, to CNBC on Friday.
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Finance Minister Siv Jensen rejected that proposal in April, citing high regulatory and political risk, although lawmakers may study the issue again next year following a campaign by opponents of the right-wing minority coalition government.
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The State Department created a "Supervisor Locator" program to address the widespread struggle for SIV applicants searching for their military bosses: fill out a form, and the Department of Defense looks for an Afghan's military supervisor.
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Despite his agony searching for safety outside the SIV system, the mere mention of his past work for Radio in a Box still prompts a grin of recognition, a snap, and he points a finger gun.
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Across all three animal studies, which replicated many but not all aspects of the 2016 paper and included a larger sample of animals, the combination treatment failed to stave off SIV once the drugs were stopped.
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In Cambodia, which he said he had visited for various reasons since the 1980s, he started an agricultural marketing business with three partners, including Sichan Siv, the Cambodian-American former United States ambassador to the United Nations.
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In power since 2013, Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Finance Minister Siv Jensen have relied on the two smaller parties to help cut taxes and raise spending to counter an economic downturn triggered by falling oil prices.
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The right-wing government of Prime Minister Erna Solberg of the Conservatives and Finance Minister Siv Jensen of the smaller Progress Party extracted 6.7 billion Norwegian crowns to pay for public spending ($781.26 million), Dagens Naeringsliv said.
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Meanwhile, an Iraqi who worked four years as a translator for U.S. forces in the hope of obtaining a Special Immigration Visa (SIV) felt betrayed by the Trump administration's decision and said he now feared for his life.
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Their staff was also receptive to the idea of Bennet using his position to help provide for our allies a permanent avenue to safety in the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, and to help streamline this backlogged process.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian government may impose a ceiling on interest rates for consumer loans unless recently imposed regulations help curb a growing trend of small, expensive loans, Finance Minister Siv Jensen said in a statement on Friday.
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And he told the journal's editors that he used the modified virus because it more closely mimicked how HIV behaves in humans (wild SIV tends to kill monkeys very quickly, while HIV infection is usually slower to kill).
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In March, the U.S. embassy in Kabul said it had stopped scheduling interviews for SIV applicants because it had nearly run out of visas, but lawmakers included 2,500 more in a spending bill in April to preserve the program.
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The spending deal agreed by congressional negotiators continued the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, which allows Afghans who worked for the U.S. government, often risking their lives, to move to the United States after a rigorous vetting process.
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Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Finance Minister Siv Jensen said spending in a normal year should be limited to three percent of the fund, down from the current four-percent rule, to take into account lower expected future returns.
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Investing in airports, roads, bridges or wind farms — has been a hot topic in recent months, but the finance minister, Siv Jensen of the populist Progress Party, has twice declined to bring the proposal to parliament, citing political risk.
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The right-wing Progress Party, including Finance Minister Siv Jensen, resigned from the government on Monday over a cabinet decision to help bring a woman suspected of Islamic State affiliation back home to Norway, opening up several cabinet jobs.
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OSLO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Norway's Finance Minister Siv Jensen and her right-wing Progress Party will resign from the government over a decision to bring home from Syria a woman suspected of Islamic State affiliation, Jensen said on Monday.
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A recent bi-partisan push by U.S. lawmakers for more SIV visas came against the backdrop of efforts by President Donald Trump's administration to clamp down on immigration from majority Muslim countries, an effort that has been blocked by the courts.
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In March, the U.S. embassy in Kabul said it had stopped scheduling interviews for SIV applicants because it had nearly run out of visas, even though 1,500 more were included in the National Defense Authorization Act passed in late 2016.
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He is also helping those who helped America as the chief operating officer of No One Left Behind, a group dedicated to helping Afghan and Iraqi combat interpreters resettle in the US through the special immigrant visa (SIV) program born in 2006.
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"These Afghans have risked their lives to help the U.S. mission and Congress has a moral obligation to provide these visas to protect them and their families," Shaheen — a longtime supporter of the SIV program — said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
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Hux recognizes Phasma's deadly potential to add to the ranks of his army, while her companion Siv tries to make sense of the true nature of the woman she idolizes, while hoping that Phasma will help lead them to a better world.
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Special Immigrants (SIV):Special immigrant visas are issued to several subgroups, including Iraqis or Afghans who worked on behalf of the government, Iraqi and Afghan translators, and green card holders who are returning to the United States after spending a year or longer abroad.
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"With the establishment of a monetary policy and financial stability committee, the board may to a greater extent than today focus its efforts on the other activities of the bank, in particular the management of the Government Pension Fund Global," Finance Minister Siv Jensen said.
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Afghanistan is not one of the six countries whose citizens would have been barred under Trump's executive order, but some of the president's fellow Republicans in Congress have resisted expanding the SIV program out of concern that militants could use it to enter the United States.
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As all this was going on, however, it came to light that one of the study's co-authors, Francois Villinger, now a pathologist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, had provided the research team a different type of SIV virus than was stated in the paper.
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Last week, the State Department announced that the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, which offers a thoroughly vetted pathway to immigration for Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who served alongside U.S. forces in their countries, would cease to offer interviews to new applicants after the month of March.
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We must uphold our promise of Special Visas (SIVs) to war zone translators who worked with U.S. and NATO troops during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as providing financial and housing assistance to individuals and families who have emigrated to the United States under the SIV program.
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The U.S. State Department said last week it would soon run out of visas for the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, designed to help bring to the United States those who have worked for the government during the decade and a half that U.S. forces have been engaged in the country.
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When asked about the dip in SIV applicants who have done work for the US in the nearly 17-year war, a DHS official said the agency had "instituted new vetting procedures" to "close security gaps and take more of a risk-based approach to refugee admissions — making it harder for terrorists, criminals, and individuals seeking to exploit" the refugee program.
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"Because of who these people are, in order to qualify, they were already vetted to US military satisfaction to let them work with soldiers or on bases … security concerns there are much more acute and these people were sufficiently vetted to do the work they were doing for the US government — and then they were vetted through the former SIV program," Bates of IRAP said.
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The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is working with top Family Foundations and present and former government leaders like Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and former governors John Engler, a Republican from Michigan, and Bob Wise a Democrat from West Virginia as well as accomplished authors like Ambassador Sichan Siv and Sandra Brown along with Bush Family Members – Doro Bush Koch and Jeb Bush, Jr to accomplish the goals and objectives of giving people the opportunity to read and write.
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