Significant Delay in Processing of H1b Visas as Demand Increases
The Department of State (DOS) has announced a significant retrogression from the July 2019 Visa Bulletin to the August 2019 Visa Bulletin of
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H1B visa Immigration news
Majority of US H1B visas granted to Indians in last five years
Indian nationals have received between 67 and 72 percent of the total H-1B visas issued by the U.S. in last five years, Ministry
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Employees of US firm paid $58000 due to H1B certification violation
A US company from California has paid $58,815 to two employees after a federal investigation found violations of the H-1B foreign labour certification
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Trump Administration to Raise Merit Based Immigration To 57%
The Donald Trump administration in the US is proposing a nearly five-fold increase in merit-based legal immigration and half those based on family
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Employers Looking To Hire H-1Bs Need To Prove Future Work Exists
Companies seeking H-1B workers are being asked to prove they’ll have definite assignments for the full three-year term of the visa, the latest
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Will per Country Cap Removal from Green Card Bill Raise Hope for Indians?
With the potential to positively impact almost 300,000 Indian nationals living in the U.S. who are waiting for green cards (and to a
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Revocation of right work of H1B spouses can impact their autonomy
A recently released research paper, points out that if the right to work, currently available to dependent spouses of a certain category of
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Green cards country cap removal and changes in H-1B visa proposed
U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1044, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019, by a vote of 365 to 65. The
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Agreement Reached On Proposed Immigration Legislation In The US Senate
Given the opposition of the former Judiciary Committee chair, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), who had blocked a similar bill in 2011, the Fairness
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Latest Court Cases on Immigration Restriction, OPT and H1B Spouses
Two important lawsuits may affect whether international students and the spouses of H-1B visa holders will continue to be permitted to work in
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