Indian diaspora groups welcome court ruling striking down $100,000 H-1B visa feeIndian diaspora groups in the US have lauded a federal court's decision to strike down the $100,000 H-1B visa fee, deeming it a fair move f...
Joe Biden, Donald Trump asked to intervene as Indian-American body warns of Bangladesh becoming ‘Islamic state’An Indian-American group has appealed to US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to intervene in rising violence against m...
USCIRF report based on omission & commission of facts: Indian diaspora bodyA think-tank representing the Indian diaspora has criticized the USCIRF's report, calling it biased and based on incomplete facts. The repo...
Diaspora body urges US govt, universities and student organisations to work towards addressing the spike in deaths of Indian-origin studentsThe causes of these incidents range from suspicious shootings or kidnappings to environmental deaths from ignorance of safety precautions (...
Green Card backlog: Indian-American group writes to Biden Administration for reliefThe Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) has urged the Biden Administration to relax rules regarding employment authori...
Make changes in training programme for foreign students, Indian diaspora body urges USThe Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) has called on the Biden Administration to make changes to the Optional Practic...
Wrong to assume fired H-1B holders must leave within 60 days, multiple options available, says USCIS directorIn a letter to the Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies, USCIS Director Ur M Jaddou said, "When non-immigrant workers are laid ...
Pro-Khalistan protesters attack Indian Consulate in San Francisco; stage protest outside Australian parliamentCommunity leader Ajay Bhutoria strongly condemned the attack by pro-Khalistan protesters on the Consulate of India building in San Francisc...
Time running out for laid off H-1B professionals: FIIDS"This has a humanitarian impact on them as their families, including their US-born children are uprooted abruptly, and those who were laid ...
Diaspora group launches online petition urging Anthony Blinken to reduce visa wait time"Even after a two-year-long Covid-era pause in visa appointments at the US embassies in India, the visa appointment situation is far from n...
Indian American groups launch voting campaigns ahead of midterm electionsIndian Americans account for over one per cent of the country's population and have one of the highest per capita incomes among ethnic grou...
Diaspora body urges FM Sitharaman to allow NRIs, OCI card holders to invest in Indian stock marketIn a submission to Sitharaman, FIIDS said as many as 88 per cent of the Indian Diaspora community in a recent survey had supported the move...
Indian-American body urges Biden to reject appointment of Masood Khan as Pak envoy to USA top Indian diaspora group has urged US President Joe Biden to reject the appointment of Masood Khan as Pakistan's ambassador to the Unite...
2 in 5 Indian-Americans worried about financial stability, says first-of-its-kind surveyAccording to the report which is based on a recent COVID-19 survey, one in six tested positive or know a family member of the Indian commun...
Indian-Americans laud Supreme Court's verdict on Ayodhya caseThe World Hindu Council of America or VHPA, that seeks its inspiration from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, said that for Hindus around the worl...
Senators urged to remove country cap on Green CardThe case of work-visa holders from India, clearly illustrates the nature, substance and details of the impediments to legal immigration in ...
Need of a global treaty to fight terrorism: ExpertsThere is need of a common global treaty instead of more than a dozen existing ones to fight terrorism, international experts have said.