Washington: US universities have registered a hefty drop in the number of applications from Indian students amid a spate of hate crimes and fear about potential changes to visa policies by the Trump administration, found […]
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of two U.S. lawmakers has introduced in the House of Representatives a legislation, which if passed by Congress would prevent Indian companies from hiring IT professionals on H-1B and L-1 […]
NEW YORK (TIP): India continues to get the “lion’s share” of the H-1B visas from the US government despite the fee hike, US Ambassador to India Richard Verma. “India continues to receive the lion’s share […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US government is believed to have received about 250,000 petitions for H-1B visas – the most sought after American work visas — with a majority of them being from either Indian companies […]
Program Will Support 80 Entrepreneurs and Create More Than 700 New Jobs for New Yorkers in First Three Years Alone Entrepreneurs Will Be Required to Base Business at CUNY Incubators, Bringing Employment and Education Opportunities […]
WASHINGTON: With IT firms struggling to find quality and right number of professionals, a top American CEO has called for a “dramatic expansion” of the H-1B visa scheme popular among Indian tech firms to meet the […]
For the past 5 months, thousands of recent foreign science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates of U.S. universities who hold jobs in the United States under a program known as Optional Practical Training (OPT) have worried […]
WASHINGTON: Over 14,000 of the 8.8 lakh Indians who travelled to the US on visitor or business visa in 2015 overstayed in the country, according to official figures. The data provided by the Department of Homeland […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Congress has imposed a special fee of up to $4,500 on the H-1B and L-1 visas popular among Indian IT companies to fund a 9/11 healthcare act and biometric tracking system. […]
WASHINGTON: Replaced by H-1B visa workers, at least 23 former Disney IT workers have filed a complaint alleging discrimination. In a complaint filed before the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the fired Disney employees alleged that […]
Many of the visas are given out through a lottery, and a small number of giant global outsourcing companies had flooded the system with applications, significantly increasing their chances of success. Congress set up the […]
BENGALURU: The US is set to pass a bill on immigration with major implications for the Indian IT sector and its employees. The bill seeks to prohibit companies from hiring H-1B employees if they employ more than […]
WASHINGTON: A leading Republican presidential candidate has called for suspending the issuance of H-1B visa for six months to investigate abuses against the most sought work visa by Indian IT professionals. “In order to strengthen our […]
Scopus Consulting Group and Orian Engineers, two companies based in Silicon Valley and owned by an Indian-American Kishore Kumar have been ordered to pay fines of $103,000 to the federal government. Along with this, the […]
Raghunandan Yandamuri has been found guilty of double murder of 61-year-old Satyavathi Venna and her 10-month-old grand-daughter Saanvi Venna at their apartment in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania following a failed kidnapping bid in October 2012. […]
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