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Can an H-1B employee work from India?Until 2019, when a decision from the DOL changed the calculus, our answer to this question was: “An H-1B employee may work from outside the...
- Huge relief for spouses of H-1B workers, Biden nixes Trump plan to kill H4 work permits
The latest development brings to an end years of efforts by the Trump administration to rescind an Obama era regulation that allowed a cert...
- H-1B work visas: Biden's immigration bill proposes to eliminate per country cap, to benefit Indian IT professionals
Indian IT professionals, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the US mainly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the c...
- Lawsuit now covers H-1B petitions for market research analyst positions filed by US businesses
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical ...
- Silicon Valley looking forward for Joe Biden to reverse Donald Trump's immigration rules
The Trump administration had announced new immigration rules last month designed to make it more difficult for skilled workers to acquire v...
- Stakeholders are optimistic of easier visa rules under Biden. The big question now is, when?
Every year, Indians get a bulk of those US visas issued under four categories: H1B, issued to high skilled workers; H4, used by families of...
- Joe Biden is planning to increase H-1B visa limit, remove country quota for green cards
H-1B visas, which expand the available pool of high skilled workers in the US, is a non-immigrant visa that allows companies to employ fore...
- Pro-immigration regime may be more balanced
While Biden has spoken up against the changes introduced to the visa policy by the Trump administration and is expected to reverse those, h...
- All eyes on H-1B visa programme irrespective of who wins the US polls
In yet another policy stance change on H-1B visa within six months, the US administration recently announced that it was announcing an “int...
- US district court: Spouses of H-1B visa holders aren’t entitled to automatic renewal of work permits
To mitigate the difficulties arising owing decades-long green-card backlog for those immigrants from certain countries, such as India, the ...
- Trump administration proposes to scrap computerised lottery system to select H-1B visas
Quite a few H-1B visas are allotted to employees of India-centric IT companies and a wage level-based selection could significantly increas...
- Engaged with US for ensuring increasing predictability in visa regime: MEA
The H-1B visa, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers ...
- 'No option but to come back to India': H-1B visa holders share their fears and hopes ahead of US election
Hundreds of H-1B visa holders affected by President Donald Trump's flip-flops on the long-term work visa are keeping a close eye on the ong...
- US proposes not to issue business visa for H-1B speciality occupations
The move, made public on Wednesday, less than two weeks ahead of the Nov 3 presidential election, is likely to impact several Indian compan...
- Trump ban on visas cost the US economy $100 billion: Study
The June 22 Proclamation, which barred the entry of H-1B, L-1 and J1 visa holders till the end of the year, was eventually suspended by a U...
- View: Donald Trump’s H-1B reforms will make America poorer
The policy tightens the definition of “specialty” occupations that qualify for H-1B status and prevents companies from hiring foreign worke...
- Fee increase put on stay
- The current status and likely future course of various work & student visas in US
Trump has promised a stricter work visa regime in a bid to create more jobs for American workers in a struggling economy. His rival Joe Bid...
- Indian women dominate H-4 work permits, get paid like H-1B spouses
David J Bier, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Centre for Global Liberty and Prosperity, says in a blog that nearly 90...
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