Welcome to Trump’s America, where the visa dream is getting harder to keep alivePresident Trump's second term is tightening legal immigration pathways, including student visas and green card applications. New policies r...
25 May, 2026, 11.20 AM IST
US immigration enforcement guidance for warrantless arrests falls short, federal judge saysA federal judge ruled that immigration enforcement officers' instructions for making civil arrests without warrants do not meet probable ca...
08 May, 2026, 10.09 AM IST
US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countriesThe Trump administration has paused immigration applications from 19 non-European countries, citing national security concerns. This move, ...
03 Dec, 2025, 08.07 AM IST
US' new ‘good moral character’ rule: Flexibility or a tougher barrier to citizenship?A new USCIS policy on Good Moral Character (GMC), effective August 15, 2025, raises concerns despite its seemingly flexible approach. While...
20 Aug, 2025, 02.04 PM IST
NSF joins NESO's demand for eviction of illegal immigrants from North EastThe Naga Students' Federation, along with other North East student groups, staged a sit-in demanding the eviction of illegal immigrants, hi...
18 Aug, 2025, 05.09 PM IST
US plans on using a law traditionally targeting human traffickers to prosecute firms hiring undocumented workersThe US Department of Justice has heightened priorities for immigration enforcement, urging prosecutors to tackle immigration-related violat...
28 Feb, 2025, 11.05 AM IST
United States to make amended H-1Bs mandatory for employees moving from one job site to anotherWhen the job location change happens within the same area of intended employment, this requirement does not apply. These changes aim to ens...
06 Nov, 2023, 11.50 AM IST
Amended H-1Bs must for employees moving from one job site to anotherIn July 2015, USCIS had issued a policy memorandum based on the decision taken by the Administrative Appeals Office in a particular case. T...
07 Jul, 2023, 06.28 PM IST
Biden admin to reconsider objections to H-1B visas during Trump regimeThe move is expected to come to the rescue of a large number of Indian IT professionals who were having a tough time during the previous Tr...
13 Mar, 2021, 12.01 PM IST
Biden administration begins reversing Trump's damage on H-1B and immigrationPolitically, this is a good time for immigration laws to be revamped and modernized. Concluding from various polls conducted over the last ...
25 Jan, 2021, 09.42 AM IST
US court stops adverse visa policy, gives relief to IndiansA US court has issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the US agencies from implementing a policy under which "unlawful presence" of ...
06 May, 2019, 04.43 PM IST
US tightens visa rules to curb overstay by studentsThe policy is scheduled to come into effect from August 9; unlawful presence to be computed from the day a student fails to maintain ‘immig...
14 May, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
Donald Trump signs memorandum to end 'catch and release' policyIn his presidential memorandum, Trump has also asked the Defence Secretary to produce a list of military facilities which could be used to ...
07 Apr, 2018, 10.06 AM IST
New H-1B policy memorandum issued to protect workers: USCIS"The USCIS is simply clarifying existing regulations and policy for third-party worksite H-1B petitions," its spokesperson told PTI.
24 Feb, 2018, 12.22 PM IST
Trump admin makes it more difficult for H-1B visa extensionThe new policy is in line with the Trump administration's goal to protect American workers from discrimination and replacement by foreign l...
26 Oct, 2017, 12.58 AM IST
Trump's H-1B policy sends shock waves across companiesThe ruling reverses the US' more than decades and a half old guidelines, that were issued in the context of addressing the new millennium n...
04 Apr, 2017, 10.43 AM IST
US clears air around H-1B visa with policy memorandum, computer programmers won't be eligibleThe document essentially says that a previous guiding policy document for H-1B visa petitions, from the year 2000, will no longer hold.
04 Apr, 2017, 10.01 AM IST