What has recently maligned the Indian American community is the H1B Visa fraud which has been continuing to deceive tens of thousands of H1B seekers and filling the coffers of the few greedy Indian Americans since before the presidential victory of Donald Trump in 2016. Undoubtedly, H1B visa fraud in the United States is a […]
The end of the US government shutdown has lifted the screen over the much-awaited new H1B visa rules for the 2019-2020 season. The long wait for the latest H1B visa news in 2019 came to a conclusion about the future of US-educated foreigners and the American Dreams of non-US educated H1B applicants. To be precise, […]
In the latest bid to reform the H1B visa program and stop its misuse, the White House has announced that foreign nationals with advanced degrees from recognized US institutions for higher studies will be preferred to foreign workers with a master’s or higher degree from their native countries. Described as a “more meritorious selection of […]
Some optimism is nipped in the current socio-political air of the United States for those with their fingers crossed hoping to get out of the green card backlog. Visa and immigration analysts opine that the legislations including the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act 2017, which are awaiting a consideration to remove the US employment-based per country limit […]
The United States will ring in the New Year 2019 with the Trump Administration’s new definition of employment and specialty occupations as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Unified Fall Agenda for H1B visa reforms in the interest of American workers. Yes, the definition of employment and specialty occupations is likely to be revised […]
Self-sufficiency has always been a fundamental of the US Immigration law for individuals seeking entry to the United States on various visas, for non-citizens seeking lawful permanent residency in the country, and those on a temporary visa seeking extension of their stay in the same non-immigrant category or shift to a different non-immigrant category. Since […]
The longstanding fiasco over H1B visa reform and green card logjam is, at times, penetrated by flickering glimmers of hope for an unclouded sky. A new bill has recently been introduced in the US Congress, seeking flexibility for H1B visa holders to switch to new jobs in the United States so that they can continue […]
What could have been a better gift to India than Smart Village from the Indian American community this Independence Day? Indian American IT professional Rajnish Bajpai and his techie friend Yogesh Sahu from Mumbai have built a high-end app for India to interconnect remote villages and connect them with the rest of the world. Prime […]
While eight Indian American teens are undergoing a summer internship in the US Congressional offices in Washington DC, new faces from the Indian-origin youth brigade are emerging in the race for hot seats of policymaking for the growth and progress of their respective US states and cities. With President Trump’s nomination for Virginia-based law Professor […]
The US government seems to build a shield around the country against H1B visa applicants from across the world by authorizing the officials to turn down visa applications outright under definite circumstances. On the other hand, threats of deportation are looming large against unlawful presence post denial of one’s petition for H1B visa extension. The […]