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Indian restaurant owners in the UK asks for one year visa for chefs April 25, 2016

Indian eatery owners all over the UK has prepared document based on 75 pages urging the UK government for starting a one year visa so that they could call on chefs from India for keeping their business on the run.The file has been sent to the UK PM, David Cameron and Theresa May, UK Home Secretary and to Priti Patel wh...

Be yourself to obtain US student visa says US Consular Chief April 22, 2016

Previous year, the number of students from India in the US has raised by 30% to 1,32,000. In the year, 2015 alone, the US Consulates and Embassies in India had granted more than 72,000 F-1 visas.According to Charles Luoma, Consular Chief, the US Consulate located in Chennai alone had processed more than 21,900 visas ...

Malaysia has introduced e-visa facility for Indian tourists April 22, 2016

In order to increase the number of Indian travelers, the Government of Malaysia has started an Electronic Travel Authorization Visa (e-visa) for short visits to Malaysia. Presently, the facility of e-visa is available for Indian citizens who are living in India only and this visa would be valid for an initial journey r...

12.1% increase in overseas tourist arrivals in last month April 20, 2016

Tourism Ministry of India has compiled monthly estimates regarding arrivals of overseas travelers based on country wise and port wise information that has been got from Information Bureau (BOI) and Earnings for Foreign Exchange (FEEs) on basis of information available from RBI.The key highlights related to FEEs and FTA...

India complaints US about visas and social security entrap April 16, 2016

The government of India has gone back to well-known headline making mourn that the fees which was slapped for the visa by the US on skilled foreign employees H-1B visas are biased towards IT experts from India, even as the US is bend on screening that a big number of certain visas are cornered by those whose target is ...

Around 347.5% of rise in arrival of tourists on E-Tourist Visa last month April 14, 2016

As many as 1,15,677 travelers had arrived in last month on e-tourist visa in India when compared to just 25,851 during the similar period for last year. With an increase of 347.5%.The facility of e-visa was started from 27th November 2014, till 25th Feb this year, this facility was available to 113 nations and then f...

Increase in applications for H-1B visa shows lack of skilled employees in the US April 09, 2016

Nasscom has told that the report of IT industry of India being the biggest applicant of US skilled employees visas only reveals that there is not much supply of talent for the type of demand in the US.The USCIS had said that it has got over 20,000 petitions for H-1B for FY 2017. The process of visa application started ...

Indian students represent as second biggest group of international students in the US April 05, 2016

About one lakh thirty two thousand students from India in the US are representing as the second biggest group of international students who are pursuing education in the US. This was informed by Dustin Dockiewicz, who is the Vise Consul of the US Consulate in Mumbai.Dustin Dockiewicz also said that large numbers of Ind...

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