Asia Immigration News

India is on top position for sending engineers and scientists to the US January 16, 2016

Continuing the drift, India gains the top position as it is among other Asian countries in sending engineers and scientists in the US. As per a report which revealed the information that there has been an increase of 85% from the year 2003 as India had send around 9,50,000 engineers and scientists out of Asia’s total...

Tourist arrivals on e-tourist visa grows to 635% in December last year January 16, 2016

As many as 1,03,617 tourists had visited India on e-Tourist visa in the month of December last year, when compared to only 14, 083 during the same period in the year 2014 registering an increase of whopping 635.8%.Citizens from the United Kingdom has retained its top position, which is followed by the tourists from the...

US formally announces increase in H-1B visa fee January 14, 2016

The USCIS has formally announced a law that raised the fees for L-1 and H-1B and visas to $4500 and $4000 respectively.Under the Act for Consolidated Appropriations 2016, this was signed in as a law by the US President on 18th December last year. According to the statement from USCIS, an extra fee of $4000 forpetitions...

China to ease green card rules to attract overseas talent January 13, 2016

In search for additional overseas talent to assist create a more innovative and enterprising economy, China would introduce its latest initiatives from 1st March for making it easy for the overseas citizens to get the Chinese green card.This is one of the 10 initiatives that were unveiled yesterday for attracting skill...

Indian IT companies might increase fees to counter hiked US visa fees January 12, 2016

India’s IT outsourcing firms are likely to increase the client fees and process additional work from their centres for cushioning the affect of hike in fees for work visas in the US. –According to the top market investors.According to them, the latest US measure would cut 50-60 points from the profit margins of dat...

Arrival of overseas tourists has increased in December January 09, 2016

Overseas tourist arrivals in India is consistently increasing, in the month of December last year, around 9.13 lakh foreign tourists have arrived in India with an increase of 3.2% when compared to 8.85 lakh in 2014.During last year’s period of January and December, around 80.16 lakh travelers had arrived in India, an...

Tourist arriving on e-tourist visa to get a gift from Tourism Ministry January 08, 2016

Tourists arriving in India on an e-tourist visa will soon be receiving a gift kit from the Ministry of Tourism that will consist of a SIM card, along with other things.According to the sources from Ministry of Tourism, this would be a gift from the Ministry of Tourism; it would be given to tourists who visit India on...

US is working to solve the extradition matter says Consular general January 06, 2016

The US consulate in Hyderabad is working towards solving the matter of extradition of many Indian students by the authorities of US immigration heading towards the US universities. This was told by Michael Mullins, US Consular General. This was the initial time that any US official had spoken on this controversy that s...

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