The passage of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act by the Senate on Wednesday comes as a big relief to Indian IT professionals who come to the US on H-1B work visas and their current waiting period for Green Card or permanent residency is running into decades.
December 4, 2020Indian IT professionals, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the US mainly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the current immigration system.
October 11, 2020On June 22, as unemployment touched the highest-ever numbers on record in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation to temporarily suspend H-1B and other work visas till the end of the year.
August 13, 2020The proposed suspension could extend into the government's new fiscal year beginning October 1, when many new visas are issued, a media report has stated.
June 12, 2020In April, President Donald Trump had said that he was suspending immigration for green card seekers for 60 days, arguing the controversial move would help Americans find work again after Coronavirus caused a surge in unemployment amid the current lockdown.
May 9, 2020A Green Card allows a non-US citizen to live and work permanently in America.
November 13, 2019However, the plan has been slammed by immigrant and advocacy groups saying that it would undermine democracy and penalize parents for seeking help to feed their children.
August 13, 2019As of now, about 66 per cent of the green cards are given to those with family ties and only 12 per cent are based on skills.
May 17, 2019I would like to start by reassuring readers that this article is not about a spiritual quest or self-realization but a simple identity crisis that every migrant to a foreign country goes through. In my case, the question is “Am I an Indian or an American?” When I was in college in Kolkata I often …
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July 22, 2018The new calculation on the Green card wait period by Cato Institute, a Washington-based think-tank, comes after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently released number of applicants for such cards.
June 16, 2018As of May 2018, there were 395,025 foreign nationals waiting for Green Card under the employment-based preference category, of these 306,601 were Indians
June 7, 2018Eminent Indian Americans have launched a nationwide campaign in the US to create awareness about massive backlog for Green Card which they say is impacting some 300,000 high-skilled Indian applicants. Under the current regulation, skilled immigrants from India need to wait anywhere between 25-92 years for a Green Card due to per-country limits, said the …
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January 30, 2018A group of more than 100 Indian IT professionals on H-1B visas today knocked on the doors of US lawmakers to get the country-specific quotas for permanent residency removed, saying the limitation resulted in massive green card backlogs for them. Every year, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) receives about 100,000 green card applications …
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October 24, 2017With his permanent residency coming in the way of his newly wed wife joining him in the US, Satya Nadella surrendered his Green Card and applied for a H1-B visa, a move which gave him instant notoriety around the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, the Indian-born CEO has revealed. In fact, at one point of time, …
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September 26, 2017The move to introduce points-based system for the most sought-after Green Card would be advantageous to foreign workers with professional skills while it will "discourage" those with low or no skills, the White House has said. The statement from the White House comes a day after US President Donald Trump announced his support for a …
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August 3, 2017A proposed US immigration reform legislation is narrowly focused on Green Cards and it does not cover temporary non-immigrant visas like the H1-B given to tens of thousands of Indian professionals. The Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, which was unveiled on Wednesday, "doesn't deal with guest workers and temporary non-immigrant visas" …
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August 3, 2017Indian nationals who hold a valid US visa or a green card will get a two-week UAE visa on arrival in the country from May 1, according to a media report. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs this week circulated a letter to all authorities to grant Indians with US visa or green card to …
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