Anu Peshawaria – Our office has been receiving numerous calls from panic-stricken friends and families of a large number of Indian students which could result in mass deportations. Anti-immigrant sentiment is growing in this country and this incident is yet another nail in the coffin of an amicable solution. The lure of America will no […]
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Ending country quota in Green Cards will benefit Indians: CRS report
indica News Bureau – Hundreds of thousands of Indians waiting for permanent residency in the US stand to benefit if country-based quotas from Green Cards are removed says a latest US Congressional Research Service (CRS) report. Indians, who mostly come to the US on H-1B visas, wait for about 10 years on average for […]
65 US varsities contest Trump’s visa changes
indica News Bureau – Top US Universities like Harvard and MIT have contested the Trump administration’s new stringent visa policy for foreign students in a court. As many as 65 universities have warned that the Department of Homeland Security’s new ‘backdating’ rule will likely result in fewer international students, scholars, and instructors contributing to […]
New Green Card policy puts Indians, South Asians at great risks
indica Washington Bureau A Trump administration’s proposed law, which seeks to deny Green Card to all those who have been or might be a beneficiary of the government’s public assistance programmes, threatens to affect hundreds of thousands of Indians and Asians living in the US. Opposing the development, various Asian and South Asian […]