Americans love sports – and the pomp and circumstance that surrounds competition. Here are our must-see sporting events:

1. Experience late-night baseball during the Midnight Sun Game in Fairbanks, Alaska. The game begins at 10:30 p.m. on the summer solstice; because the city sits above the Arctic Circle, it’s light all night long.

2. Adrenaline is on display during California’s answer to the Tour de France: the AMGEN Tour, a multi-city road race that covers between 650 and 700 miles every May.

3. Card lovers will go “all-in” for a glimpse at live action during the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. The tournament draws more than 4,000 players.

4. Headline entertainment and corporate freebies are among reasons fans will pay big bucks to visit Dallas for the 2011 Super Bowl, the championship of the National Football League.

5. History abounds in Boston, so it’s fitting that the country’s oldest marathon (since 1897) is the Boston Marathon, held every April.

6. Hoops fans live for the three-week National Collegiate Athletic Association men’s basketball tournament every March. The 2011 finals are in Houston.

7. Competitors wield axes and chainsaws during various events at the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wis., every July. Also on the schedule: log-rolling.

8. Every April, galleries inside Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., come to life for The Masters, one of the most celebrated (and raucous) golf tournaments in the U.S.

9. The U.S. Open tennis tournament, a seen-and-be-seen event in New York City, welcomes the game’s top talent for three weeks every September.

10. Fans call the annual Kentucky Derby horse race in Louisville, Ky., “the most exciting two minutes in sports.” For the full experience, grab a spot in the infield and drink mint juleps.

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America’s size plays to the traveler’s advantage when it comes to weather: it’s always perfect somewhere in the US and just shy of Hades somewhere else.

In other words, either your destination or your trip’s timing may need tweaking depending on the season. For current forecasts, visit www.weather.com.

The main holiday season is, naturally, summer, which typically begins on Memorial Day (the last Monday in May) and ends on Labor Day (the first Monday in September). But Americans take their holidays mainly in summer because schools are closed, not because the weather’s uniformly ideal: yes, hit the beaches in August, because Manhattan is a shimmering sweat bath and the deserts are frying pans.

The seasons don’t arrive uniformly either. Spring (typically March to May) and fall (usually September to November) are often the best travel times, but ‘spring’ in parts of the Rockies and Sierras may not come till June. By then it’s only a sweet memory in Austin, while in Seattle, spring often means rain, rain, rain.

And winter? It’s expensive high-season at ski resorts and in parts of the southern US (blame migrating snowbirds), but planned well, winter can mean you have the riches of America’s landscape virtually all to yourself.

Whether you’re planning to join them or avoid them, holidays and festivals are another thing to consider.

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USCIS has listed a range of options that allows Japanese nationals to remain in the US because “USCIS understands that a natural disaster can affect an individual’s ability to establish or maintain lawful immigration status”, as said in the notice.

Temporary relief measures available to eligible nationals of Japan may include:

• The grant of an application for change or extension of nonimmigrant status for an individual currently in the United States, even when the request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired;
• Re-parole of individuals granted parole by USCIS;
• Extension of certain grants of advance parole, and expedited processing of advance parole requests;
• Expedited adjudication and approval, where possible, of requests for off-campus employment authorization for F-1 students experiencing severe economic hardship;
• Expedited processing of immigrant petitions for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPRs);
• Expedited employment authorization where appropriate; and
• Assistance to LPRs stranded overseas without immigration documents such as Green Cards. USCIS and the Department of State will coordinate on these matters when the LPR is stranded in a place that has no local USCIS office.

read full article here: http://www.migrationexpert.com/visa/us_immigration_news/2011/mar/0/321/us_supports_japanese_via_visa_extensions

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