This week, Karina Vasquez and her brother came to the Atlanta consulate to start processing their paperwork so they can apply for the U.S. deferral program.

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However, the IRS also said that it will announce a specific date when it can start processing tax returns impacted by the just enacted tax law changes.

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There are a variety of players like Splunk, 1010data, Pervasive who have technology that can quickly allow analysts to understand if a big data set has potential and to start processing it.

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Some of his students who are studying how to start businesses processing seaweed for products such as fertilizers have experienced long waits for state approvals.

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The idea that it will, at some point in the near future, start making the processing chips for Apple.

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"In the 50s the oil refining industry came, and now there we are in the 21st century at the start of a new era of natural gas import and processing, " he commented.

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Nokia has historically lagged its competition as processing power goes, so it'll be great to see them start to match up with the Pres and the iPhones of the world -- at least as far as raw computational might goes, anyhow.

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You can pay a fee to expedite processing of the petition by USCIS but the foreign worker still will not be able to start working in H-1B status until October 1.

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With the combination of the back-illuminated CMOS sensor and TruePicVI SLR image processing engine, the iHS Technology made it improve the image quality, the speed from camera start-up until shooting, focus time, and continuous shooting time.

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