H-1B Visa: Indian techies in US seek Congressional help for green card
H-1B Visa: Indian techies in US seek Congressional help for green card
More Than 100 Of These Indian Techies And Professionals, And Some Of Them With Their Dependent Kids, Drove Down Andflew To Washington To Meet Top American Lawmakers And Their Aides. PTI | Updated on: 24 Oct 2017, 05:23:04 AM
New Delhi :
A 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.
WASHINGTON Chris Magnus of Tucson, Ariz., has always been an unusual police chief.
He publicly criticized the anti-immigration policies of the Trump administration. He appeared to surprise his own mayor when he abruptly offered his resignation after releasing a video of a man who died in police custody. He was recognized nationally as the man in uniform hoisting a “Black Lives Matter” sign at a protest.
President Biden is now preparing to nominate Chief Magnus to be the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, signaling an intent to bring a seismic cultural shift to an agency at the center of some of the more contentious policies of President Donald J. Trump, particularly the separation of thousands of migrant children from their families. Chief Magnus will be expected to make good on Mr. Biden’s campaign pledge to increase oversight at the sprawling agency, one 60 times larger than the department of roughly 800 officers he led in Tucson.
Intl students can file OPT forms online, says USCIS
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Intl students can file OPT forms online, says USCIS
Lubna Kably / TNN / Apr 14, 2021, 01:42 IST
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MUMBAI: A recent move by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will benefit the nearly 2 lakh Indian students in the US and other international students.
USCIS has announced that F-1 visa holders (students enrolled in a degree course) can apply for the optional practical training (OPT) sanction online. In other words, Form I-765 can be e-filed.
As per the last Open Doors Survey, 81,173 students from India had enrolled in the OPT program. It enables international students to work for a year post completion of their studies. Students from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field get a further extension of two years.
Biden administration on track to accept fewer refugees than Trump s, report says
Amy B Wang, The Washington Post
April 11, 2021
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WASHINGTON - Since his days on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden has tried to cast himself as diametrically opposed to Donald Trump when it comes to welcoming refugees into the United States.
Within two weeks of taking office, Biden signed an executive order to rebuild and enhance federal programs to resettle refugees - programs he said had been badly damaged under the Trump administration. Biden also revoked some restrictive immigration policies that Trump had put in place, including ones that sought to bar refugees from some countries. In February, Biden announced that he was raising the annual cap on refugee admissions to 125,000 for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, up from Trump s historically low limit of 15,000.