RITU JHA- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday extending his April freeze on H-1B and other visas through the end of 2020, curtailing a source of foreign professionals for tech companies and universities, according to published reports. Visa holders in the U.S. and applicants who’ve already received visas are exempt from the ban, […]
Nilesh Shah- Background EB5 Green Card program is undergoing significant changes, fundamentally altering the equation for Silicon Valley professionals exploring this route. On July 24, 2019, the new EB-5 regulations were published in the Federal Register. The new rules are scheduled to take effect on November 21, 2019. The most important change is in […]
indica News Bureau- Legislation to eliminate country visa caps finally got through the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, July 10, a move that could benefit India’s IT workers. If the bill, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019, clears the Senate and is signed into law by President Trump, it would eliminate […]
indica News Bureau- US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced what he described a merit-based immigration system to allot Green Cards or permanent legal residency to foreign nationals, a move that would benefit hundreds and thousands of Indian professionals and skilled workers whose current waiting period for a Green Card on an average is more […]
Ritu Jha- President Donald Trump said his administration is set to change the H1-B visa system to ensure both “simplicity and certainty” and a path to citizenship for skilled people. “We want to encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the US,” Trump tweeted. Indians are the biggest […]
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 […]
Ritu Jha – The Trump administration’s plan to target those on working visas who had to rely on public assistance affect hundreds of thousands of South Asians in California, according to a recently published report from the University of California Los Angeles(UCLA). According to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the UC […]
indica Washington Bureau A mere 60,394 Indians in 2017 received Green Cards out of more than 600,000 waiting in line to get the ticket to work and stay permanently in the US, according to the latest figures released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The news comes amidst President Donald Trump’s plan to […]
indica News Bureau The Trump administration’s proposal to change the definition of public charge has not gone down well with the South Asian communities in the US, who say that the new rule will affect new legal immigrants in the country, especially South Asians. The term “public charge,” indicates a person who is likely […]
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 […]
