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...Such pressures may help explain the complaints often heard among asylum seekers about the quality of the advice they get from migration agents. The former review tribunal member says she often saw agents concocting evidence and inserting it into their client's claim, sometimes without the knowledge of an illiterate or non-English-speaking asylum seeker. Refugee advocates say that sloppy advice and in some cases neglect continue to hurt asylum seekers' chances. One detainee now entering his sixth year at Baxter was assured by his migration agent that she would submit key evidence to the tribunal before a decision...
...Concerns about the quality of agents are being addressed through a compulsory examination introduced just over a year ago, says David Mawson, ceo of the Migration Institute of Australia, a division of which registers migration agents. Complaints against 2% of the 3,300 agents nationwide are upheld each year. "The visa applicant may or may not tell the migration agent everything, and the agents themselves may in some circumstances embellish what they are told," says Mawson. Sometimes, he says, people don't tell their stories in full because they don't trust the migration agent. If an asylum seeker...
...Without the volunteers, says migration agent and advocate Naleya Everson, "there are a lot of people who would not have got out" of detention. But when the detainees' hopes rest so heavily on non-professionals, most of them with little training, or on lawyers trying to fit cases in around their daily jobs, the danger is that "mistakes are inevitable," says lawyer O'Connor. That can hardly be reassuring to those among the nearly 900 men, women and children in detention who are still waiting for a decision on their future...
...than 80 separate operating units when Fiorina arrived in 1999. She slashed them into four key groups. She not only rationalized operations but also reoriented them to focus on customers instead of HP's engineers. "The board was looking to revitalize HP, and they saw Carly as a change agent," says Richard Hagberg, a California industrial psychologist who gave Fiorina the personality test credited with helping her win the HP job. "They saw her as a visionary evangelist who could oversee the creation of a new vision, [who] was willing to challenge some sacred cows. And they got that...
...severely criticized for its investigation of physicist Wen Ho Lee in the mid-'90s, has added hundreds more counterintelligence agents and put at least one in every Energy Department research facility. The bureau also started cooperation initiatives with corporations, but still sees universities as a soft spot, with some 150,000 Chinese currently studying in the U.S. The FBI'S three most recent counterintelligence arrests were of suspects who had held student visas at some point. To help sort the few who go to America to spy from the thousands who go there for a better life, the FBI relies...