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Green card rules change: An immigration lawyer answers all your key questionsA new USCIS policy memorandum, PM-602-0199, impacts Adjustment of Status applications. Immigration officers will now scrutinize application...
700,000 green card seekers in limbo; applying anew from home country to be challengingSome 540,000 family-based and around 170,000 employment-based green card applications are currently pending with the US Citizenship and Imm...
Sacked H-1B staff asked to do more B-2 paperworkTech giants such as Amazon, Oracle, and Meta have laid off thousands of employees in the past few months, and a large number of the affecte...
Paying thousands extra has become the only way forward for many US visa applicantsPremium processing has become a necessity for many US immigration applicants due to escalating delays in standard visa and employment autho...
After major enforcement operations, the Trump administration recalibrates its immigration crackdownThe Trump administration is shifting from public, aggressive immigration enforcement tactics to a quieter approach, despite maintaining hig...
When the acquisition looks great but the footnote doesn't: How Indian managements turn deals into balance-sheet fictionAcquisitions are among corporate finance’s most celebrated events. But the harder story usually emerges later, when the accounting begins t...
Companies can now stop its employees from raising their problems in court not specified in appointment letters, SC saysThe Supreme Court has ruled that private employers can include clauses in appointment letters mandating that employment disputes be resolve...
US President Joe Biden’s advisory panel holds out hope for thousands on green card queuesThe Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2022, which if passed will provide far greater access to green cards fo...
USCIS on track to issue 281,507 employment-based green cards by September 30Jeremy McKinney, president at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, stated issuing 280,000-plus employment-based immigrant visas is...
NRI Helpdesk: Who all are exempted from the US travel ban?For our NRI readers, we have started an immigration helpdesk. Write to us at nri.economictimes@gmail.com and our team of experts will addre...
Visa or extension applications will not be denied outright, under new USCIS policyUSCIS has rescinded a Trump-era (July 2018) memo that permitted immigration officers to deny benefit requests (say a visa application, or a...
US district court: Spouses of H-1B visa holders aren’t entitled to automatic renewal of work permitsTo mitigate the difficulties arising owing decades-long green-card backlog for those immigrants from certain countries, such as India, the ...
US lawmakers concerned over spike in request for evidences for H1B visasThe H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations.
Terror financing: ED slaps Rs 15 lakh penalty, confiscates Rs 7 lakh hawala moneyThe penalty and confiscation action has been taken under FEMA and three people -- Mohd Ayub Mir, Bechh Raj Bengani and Harbans Singh -- hav...
'Dramatic increase' in number of H-1B visas being held up, claims Compete AmericaUSCIS has been denying H-1B petitions exclusively because an entry-level wage is applicable for the specific position, even though the occu...
Sacked Tech Mahindra employees move High Court against ousterJustice M S Ramchandra Rao yesterday issued a notice to the IT major, asking it to explain as to why a direction to take back the petitione...
No reason for separate law to delink information from net: Google to High CourtThe submission was made in an affidavit placed before Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva by Google which has contended that even if it disables or bl...