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Immigration experts question demand to restrict issue of fresh H-1B visas

The Indian American lobby group has urged the administration of US President Joe Biden to not issue new H-1B visas to those Indian national...

Decoded: How Donald Trump's H-1B ban extension will impact Indian techies

H-1B workers who were in the U.S. in valid status when the June ban was announced were exempt from the ban and could procure a visa, and mo...

86,000 odd Indian children will age out owing to the green card backlog, with a risk of family separation

Of the 8.15 lakh Indians who are caught in the green-card backlog, which for most will take 84 years to process, 1.57 lakh are children. Th...

Premium processing of H-1B visa gets more expensive, scope expanded to cover various other visas

The US Senate has passed a continuing resolution bill, to avert an October 1 shutdown and fund the government until December 11. The Bill –...

Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives to overhaul H-1B visa system

Introduced on Thursday by Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama, the American Jobs First Act seeks to sops employers from hiring foreign H-1B ...

US embassies in India to accept applications for certain visa categories, including H-1B renewals

As per a notification, H-1B and L-1 employees who are applying for the same role in the same organisation as earlier would be eligible to a...

View: How India can become a suitable ‘home’ for knowledge process outsourcing

The recent suspensions of L-1 and H-1B visas the US government has rolled out also make the prospects of knowledge process outsourcing more...

What Donald Trump has really done: The most troubling visa queries, answered

It is not just the H-1B visa. Trump's sweeping diktat has impacted most other American work visas too.

174 Indian nationals file lawsuit in US against presidential proclamation on H1B visa

The lawsuit seeks an order declaring the presidential proclamation restriction on issuing new H-1B or H4 visas or admitting new H-1B or H-4...

View: How does US travel ban impact H-1B, L-1, F-1, EB-2, EB-3 and related visa holders?

In this article we will examine how the June Ban, which ends on December 31, 2020, affects the H-1B, L-1 and F-1 (student) visa categories ...

International students pack to leave amid new US rules

International students worried about a new immigration policy that could potentially cost them their visas say they feel stuck between bein...

Taken for (immi)granted: Making sense of Trump's foreign students rule

The US Department of Commerce estimates that these foreign students contributed $45-bn to the US economy.

'Conveyed concerns to US': MEA on modifications to requirements for student visas

On issue of F-1 visa students attending online-only classes in the United States, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson, Anurag S...

New visa regulations likely to cause uncertainties, difficulties for some Indian students: official

According to a recent report of Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), there were 1,94,556 Indian students enrolled in various academ...

Policy change on international students is misguided, say US universities and lawmakers

Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, chairwoman of the Border Secu...

Will Trump's H-1B visa freeze really help American job seekers?

There is little credible evidence to suggest these travel bans have any positive impact on the US unemployment.

Donald Trump's H-1B visa suspension: An explainer

Trump, who won the first term on the back of anti-immigration rhetoric, has tightened policies that have favoured US technology companies f...