indica News Bureau – The new H1-B rule proposed by the Trump administration – a worrying development for Indians who typically garner more than 60 per cent of these visas – is likely unlawful and would be more costly for the employers, a top immigration attorney has said. According to Vic Goel, Managing Partner […]
Indica News Bureau With the White House stressing that President Donald Trump wants H-1B visas in more highly-skilled roles as opposed to outsourcing ones, a coalition of American employers representing top IT companies have claimed there has been a “dramatic increase” in the number of H-1B visas being held up. The White House on […]
indica News Bureau With the Trump Administration planning a major overhaul in H-1B visa policy, the American dream is set to get tougher for Indians. The move to “revise” the definition of employment and specialty occupations under the H-1B visas will have a detrimental impact on Indian IT companies and small and medium-sized contractual […]
indica News Bureau US President Donald Trump’s administration is all set to revoke an Obama-era rule that enables H-4 visa holders, or spouses of professionals working in the United States on H-1B visa, to work in the country – a move set to impact tens of thousands of Indians in the US. An H-4 […]
Lawsuit claims the agency took steps that only the Department of Labor could when it began approving visas for less than the standard three-year duration Ritu Jha The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services(USCIS) an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been sued for abusing its power when offering […]
The agency said it aims to safeguard the immigration system and ensure US workers get the most protection Ritu Jha The memo that prohibits work-authorized students to take up jobs for third-party client site was carried out in response the President’s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order, according to the US Citizenship and […]
The suit argues that students on the program were peppered with requests for information and denied permission to work offsite Ritu Jha The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has been sued for allegedly making unconstitutional changes in the “Optional Practical Training Extension for STEM Students (STEM OPT). The suit claims that the USCIS targets […]
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 […]
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 […]
Their fate is back in the hands of the DHS, which does appear ready to terminate H4 EAD Ritu Jha Things look really grim for those on the H4 visas who have an employment authorization document. Their troubles became acute when the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied […]
