USA Immigration News

Bill would significantly change the H-1B program and end the OPT program December 16, 2015

A bill that will significantly reform the H-1B visa program and successfully ends the OPT program, both that the employers utilize to recruit overseas workers in the skilled positions had been introduced in the Senate. US Presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions had co-sponsored the American Jobs First Act.Th...

Community colleges in the US are increasing their efforts to lure foreign students December 15, 2015

The community colleges in US are increasing their efforts for attracting the foreign students who want to study in the US amid the outbreak of the pathway program increase in the nation.The community colleges in the US has been the routes for better four years institutions for the students who would not have been pre...

Employers using E-Verify should download and preserve the data by end of the year December 15, 2015

US employers who are registered in the “E-Verify”, the electronic system for job eligibility verification must prepare for downloading and preserving the entire e-Verify information submitted to the USCIS by the 31st December 2015.On the yearly basis, the USCIS should arrange the E-Verify records that are10 year ...

US House approves latest Screening Measures for European tourists December 14, 2015

The Visa Waiver Program, created in the year 1986, permits the citizens from around 38 nations to travel with ease to the US for three months without acquiring a visa.The bill, the second main piece of the security law was approved in the chamber, is passed by 407 to 19. But the strong showing in the House can put the ...

How H-1B visas look like if law to limit its usage is passed December 14, 2015

The legislation reforms which are under the consideration in the US will transform the nation’s work visa regulations for high skilled employees, limiting the number of individuals eligible and making it further complicated to acquire an H-1B permit which is widely used by the outsourcing industry of India.The curren...

US DOS publishes January 2016 priority dates in its Visa Bulletin December 12, 2015

Every month, theUS State Department’s Visa Office issues the priority dates for that month in its Visa Bulletin. It is issued for the different employment and family based categories. A priority date is the individual’s “place in line” for the visa, which means that the immigrant visas or the green cards will b...

Bill to increase the salary of H-1B visa holders introduced in the US Senate December 12, 2015

US Republican Senator, Ted Cruz had introduced a bill in the Senate for making the minimum income of H-1B employees to around$1,10,000 per year and he also said that it would stop the employers from replacing the US workers with cheaper overseas labour.While this bill has a slight chance of getting through Congress as ...

US DOS has issued Visa bulletin update for January 2016 December 11, 2015

The US State Department (DOS) has issued the Visa Bulletin for January 2016 and it is showing some minor movements in the job based visa categories. The most important movement was in the category of Indian EB-2 which had advanced by another eight months to 1st February 2008 (the December 2015 bulletin is showing a t...

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