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The H-1B visa, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. It is said that 70 per cent of H-1B visas are awarded to Indians.

H-1B workers now can't be employed in US federal jobs following...

The move follows the June 23 suspension of H-1B and other foreign work visas until end 2020 to safeguard American jobs...

4 Aug 2020 9:59 PM IST

Britains Home Secretary Suella Braverman. (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Suella's Dog-Whistle Bid: Targeting UK's...

No sensible person will deny that there should be humane and internationally negotiated policies on immigration.

7 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

Trump had multiple chances to craft a DACA fix with Congress. But one never materialized, despite overwhelming public support for letting Dreamers stay. (Photo: File)

Dreamers in limbo: Anti-deportation measures left out of federal...

Trump's claim that he had Dreamers' best interests at heart provoked an uproar among immigrants and Democratic...

24 March 2018 7:06 PM IST

In July 2017, four crew members of Air India were detained by the Saudi Arabian Police in Jeddah as they could not show them the original copies of their passports. (Photo: AP | Representational)

Saudi Arabia not to retain passports of Indian crew on arrival: Air...

The move comes as a big relief to the crew of Air India and Jet Airways, the two Indian airlines which fly to Saudi...

31 March 2018 9:36 AM IST

Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Foreign airline crew in immigration check trouble

Refusing to name the airlines, Sanjay Bhatia, DCP (IGI) said that a case has been filed against 3 foreign crew for...

10 Jun 2018 1:45 AM IST

US First Lady Melania Trump poses with 4th graders at the Kyobashi Tsukiji elementary school in Tokyo. (Photo: AFP)

Melania Trump, US lawmakers call for end to migrant family separations

Melania Trump did not denounce Donald Trump's administration's policy, but instead called for bipartisan immigration...

18 Jun 2018 8:37 AM IST

Visa dismisses cyber attack claim

Visa restrictions can increase illegal migration: Study

Illegal reorientation is especially problematic when government restrictions are placed on family reunification.

7 Aug 2018 6:17 PM IST

The withdrawal of landing cards, filled out by non-EU passengers since 1971, will not result in the loss of any data that is used for security checks, the Home Office said. (Photo: AP/Representational)

UK to modernise border control; scrap landing cards for Indians,...

According to the department, the changes are expected to free up staff and enable Border Force to better deploy their...

7 Aug 2017 8:24 AM IST

Sol Pederson, center, listens holding a sign during a rally in front of a Confederate statue at the old Durham County Courthouse in Durham, N.C. Protesters in North Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier Monday at the rally against racism. (Photo: AP)

Under Trump's influence, new white nationalist groups find root in US

Analysts say theses groups may have members in the tens of thousands and tacit supporters in the hundreds of thousands.

15 Aug 2017 12:27 PM IST

US President Donald Trump

Trump to tighten border security, ban migrants from Syria, 6 other...

Trump campaigned on pledges to tighten US immigration policies, including beefing up border security and stemming the...

25 Jan 2017 9:40 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AP)

UK PM May's stand to cut immigration below 100,000 could damage ties...

The pledge to bring immigration below 100,000 will form part of her Conservative Party's manifesto for the June 8...

9 May 2017 8:32 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during a conversations on C Peter Mc Colough Series on International Economics at Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. (Photo: PTI)

Arun Jaitley says liberalisation will prevail over protectionism

Finance Minister expects India to achieve an economic growth of 7 per cent or above.

8 May 2017 1:22 PM IST