The Novel Coronavirus in the US, now the worst COVID19 hotspot, has claimed the lives of more than 40 US citizens of Indian origin and Indian nationals, most of who belong to Kerala and Gujarat. Recently, the friends and family members of Dr. Hari Bansal, an Indian American physician and community leader in Montgomery County […]
The launch of an online petition seeking extension of the 60-day grace period for laid-off H1B workers suffices to prove that the H1B visa community in the United States is not immune to the global economic impact of the COVID19 pandemic. The standard H1B visa rules require furloughed foreign nationals to seek employment within the […]
Indian women across geographies and from different walks of life are on the frontlines of the fight against the Novel Coronavirus pandemic. With the rampant spread of COVID19 continuing to cripple the world, Air India pilot Swati Raval, Indian American Dr. Nita Patel, Indian-origin Miss England (2019), virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale, film actress Sikha Malhotra […]
A whopping 67.3 million people speak a language other than English in the United States, according to the US State of Department’s 2018 stats. Among them are Indian immigrants who mostly speak in Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi and other native Indian languages at home. Hindi, Gujarati and Telugu are the most widely spoken Indian […]
Tens of hundreds of NRIs (including H1B and H4 visa holders) and US citizens of Indian origin, including senior citizens, are stuck in the lockdown across India. Entry restrictions, travel ban, suspension of flights, fears of quarantine, gnawing health concerns, COVID19 misinformation – all that emerged in the aftermath of Novel Coronavirus epidemic – left […]
While the Novel Coronavirus pandemic has badly hit the travel, tourism and hospitality sectors, tens of thousands of H1B visa professionals are not exempt to the socioeconomic impact of COVID19. A slew of back-to-back directives including the US-Canada border closure, the US government’s ban on flights from/through EU countries, India’s entry restrictions for those from/through […]
In another bad news related to events triggered by the impact of COVID19 pandemic, the Embassy of India in DC, and the Consulate General of India in the US announced temporary suspension of all OCI and passport services this morning. In a statement issued earlier this day, the Indian Embassy in Washington DC stated that […]
The aviation and hospitality world has come to a standstill over the Novel Coronavirus pandemic. With the total number of COIVD19 deaths having crossed 10,000, international travel has become an impasse amid border shutdowns, flight cancellations, and visa restrictions. In the current volatile landscape of travel ban and restraints across geographies, hundreds of thousands of […]
In its travel advisory over COVID-19, the government of India has banned all incoming international passenger flights for a week starting March 22, mandated minimum 14-day quarantine for those traveling from/transiting through UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman till March 31; requested cancellation of non-essential travel to India till April 15, and prohibited travel from/through the […]
If Sushma Swaraj were alive today, she would have been more than happy to see the way India is reaching out to the Indians stranded in the novel coronavirus-hit countries. After having evacuated 647 Indians from Wuhan, China’s epicenter of Novel Coronavirus, and 83 Indians from Italy deploying Air India flights, the government of India […]