On 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.
The airline has operated six flights under VBM from Ras Al-Khaimah, Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam so far.
Air India is currently the only foreign air carrier of India that holds the Department authority to conduct operations to/from the US with its own aircraft and crew.
Apart from Air India flights, repatriation has also been arranged through other streams, including Indian Naval vessels, which have brought back Indian nationals from Sri Lanka, Maldives and Iran, chartered flights and through land borders.
According to the regulations issued by the Indian government last month and updated last week, visas of foreign nationals and OCI cards, that provide visa-free travel privileges to the people of Indian-origin, have been suspended as part of the new international travel restrictions.
The Indian Embassy in Jeddah has clarified that the Keralite nurse under treatment at Aseer National Hospital has been diagnosed with MERS-CoV and not 2019-nCoV.
Hitesh Madhubhai Patel played a 'prominent' role in operating and funding the call centres whose callers and US-based conspirators defrauded American victims between 2013 and 2016
At least 68 Indians were working at the ceramic factory in Bahri area of Khartoum at the time of the LPG tanker blast on Tuesday evening.
With Trump administration’s ‘America First’ policy, denial rates for H-1B petitions have increased significantly from just six per cent in 2015 to 24 per cent in the third quarter of the current fiscal.
The move comes after US President Donald Trump in June threatened tariffs on all Mexican imports if the country did not put a check on people entering America through Mexico’s borders.
