Vinita Gupta- Perhaps the learnings of the European Union and the Marshall Plan can help. Immigration issues are real for liberals and conservatives alike.Over the years, the influx of immigrants to the coastal regions of America has spurred their economies.It is the cross-fertilization of American integrity and ingenuity, with ethnically and socioeconomically diverse immigrants […]
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U.S. increases EB-5 visa minimum investment to $900K
indica News Bureau- The U.S. government has nearly doubled the cost for foreign investors seeking a conditional green card leading to permanent residency under the decades-old EB-5 visa program, according to published reports. Under the revised rules published Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the EB-5 visa – created in 1990 to create jobs, […]
Indian detainees inhumanely force-fed: attorney
Ritu Jha – Nine asylum-seekers from India on hunger strike at the El Paso Processing Center in Texas are allegedly being treated inhumanely, being strapped to the bed and forced-fed, resulting in injury and mental trauma. “They are on hunger strike demanding justice,” Preet Singh, an attorney representing detainees, told indica. Singh said that […]
‘My cousin is still in jail’
Ritu Jha – Students are chained, not given proper food and are terrified, according to a relative of one of the students caught in the fake university sting set up by US authorities. They are among hundreds of people enrolled at the University of Farmington, a fake university set up by the Department of […]
‘Frivolous filings’ cited for visa denial plan: USCIS
USCIS officials to get discretionary powers to reject incomplete applications, without requests for information Ritu Jha Frivolous filings are why the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has to take a strong decision about the recent policy memorandum (PM) that gives USCIS adjudicators discretionary power to deny an application, petition, or request without […]
Quake-hit Nepalis may be forced to return home
The Trump administration considers a plan to end their Temporary Protected Status Ritu Jha It was an earthquake that drove them out. But the Trump administration could drive them back. Thousands of Nepali immigrants in the US who came over after the devastating earthquake of April 25, 2015, may have to return […]
Controversial ad rails against H1-B visas
Anti-immigrant group’s message in BART system worries Indians, the largest beneficiaries of the program Ritu Jha A controversial poster targeting H1-B visa workers have been placed across the Bay Area Rapid Transit train system in California. The 200 signs have been placed at San Francisco’s Civic Center station and Oakland’s 19th Street station, […]
Green card hopes flounder as DACA deal sinks
Applicants were even ready to go a long way to work things out – even fund the famous Trump wall Ritu Jha The Senate’s failure to pass the bipartisan bills that could have offered many a pathway to citizenship has put on hold the lives of about a million DACA (Deferred Action for […]