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US & Canada News News: US immigration law remains less attractive than Canada’s for international students who wish to work after graduation. That has affected the choices m

The number of Indians immigrating to Canada has more than quadrupled since 2013 due to policies aimed at attracting and retaining talent.

It should, however, be noted that in January, Canada announced a two-year intake cap for international students, which was later expanded. For the first time ever, starting in fall (September), Canada will place limits on the number of ‘temporary residents (which also includes temporary foreign workers, those admitted under humanitarian and asylum programs) that it will admit.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has completed its annual H-1B cap lottery selection process for fiscal year 2025.

International education contributes directly to the health of the U.S. economy.

US & Canada News News: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has extended the automatic extension period for expiring Employment Authorization Documents (EADs)

According to the USCIS, while processing times have reduced significantly over the past year, if the 540-day automatic extension rule was not announced, nearly 8 lakh EAD renewal applicants would have faced a lapse in their employment authorisation and nearly sixty-eighty thousand American employers would have been negatively impacted. Immigration experts point out that hundreds of EAD applications of Indian spouses of H-1B visa holders are caught in the processing backlog.

The H-1B Electronic Registration Selection Process debuted in March 2020 for fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions. The barrier to entry dropped significantly with the...

US Immigration Lawyer explains the options for those who didnt get selected for H-1B visa.

Information for international applicants about the graduate student experience at D'Amore-McKim