African nations face extreme US immigration barriers as visa rejections travel bans and green card freezes limit entry
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More than 300 South Korean workers detained in a U.S. ICE raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant will return home, highlighting immigration, labor, and investment tensions.
The H-1B visa program has become a flashpoint in U.S.-India trade tensions, fueling online backlash, political rhetoric, and debates over jobs, immigration, and economic fairness.
A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s use of an 18th-century wartime statute to deport Venezuelan migrants, marking a major setback for its immigration agenda.
Hitting over 11 million pending applications, the United States’ immigration hits a record high backlog
The U.S. green card backlog has hit a record 11.3 million pending cases, as processing slows and stricter Trump-era immigration rules deepen uncertainty for applicants.
With this stricter approach, many Indian students are facing delays, and fewer visas are getting approved than usual
Seeks to raise per-country family-based immigration caps, allowing more visas to go to countries like India and China
New merit based system to help Indians stuck in decades log green card backlog
House panel blocks green card spill over of family based to employment based visa in October
Suhas Khamgaonkar boarded a flight to India last week, “as her husband died while in line for Green Card,†her attorney tells The American Bazaar.
Since Trump’s election as president, major American technology companies have expanded their operations in Canada.
Federal employees, who were on furlough on Monday, returned to work on Tuesday.
The diversity lottery program was introduced in the House bill in 1990 by Schumer and that helped create the visa program.
Gajjar was later arrested outside his residence in Iselin.
Of the 50,437,278 nonimmigrant entries in 2016, nearly 740,000 overstayed their admission.
OPINION: The H-1B program is widely abused, but blocking foreign workers from coming to work in US is not the solution.
The idea was proposed last summer but faced criticism from different quarters.
Indians constitute 2.1 % of the 80.5 million immigrants who came to the county in the past 174 years.
Proposal may go into effect later this year.
Rule would be in effect till Sep’ 30, 2025.
Nearly 1/5 US residents are immigrants.
USCIS relaxes rules for foreign nurses to work on H-1B visas.
Technicality over an earlier marriage an impediment.
Rejection rates higher than for any other country.