USA Immigration News

House passes the bill to tighten restrictions on visa free travel to US December 09, 2015

The House of Representatives in the US has voted tremendously on Tuesday to tighten the control on the visa free traveling to the US by the citizens of around 38 countries who are permitted to visit the US without having a visa. The bill is the second key portion of security law that is approved in the chamber.The step...

US Senators introduce a law to slash H-1B visas by 15,000 December 09, 2015

Two US Senators had introduced a law in Senate and had also proposed to bring down the H-1B visa numbers by 15,000 and also decided that this visa would be offered to the top most wage earners first.The law was presented by the Senators Bill Nelson and Jeff Sessions. According to Nelson, by cutting down the visa nu...

US State Department would no longer issue additional passport pages from next year December 08, 2015

For the regular tourists there is nothing much impressive than a passport which is well stamped and its pages that are filled with dates and inks and destinations. But if the pages of your passport are going to be filled up, then you required applying for extra pages in your passport.From 1st January 2016, the US Depar...

Colleges in Virginia often hire overseas employees December 07, 2015

According to the analysis information, it was revealed that during this financial year 2015, which ended on 30th September, the employers from the US firms had got the permission for employing around 1.2 million overseas employees with H-1B visas. Over 32,000 of these immigrant workers were approved to work in Virginia...

US worker protections that permit STEM grads to work on student visa is stirring controversy December 04, 2015

The US employees protections in the federal rule which permits the STEM graduates to get employed on the student visa for a period of three years has been getting more controversial.The US government, as part of their proposed OPT extension for students related to STEM needs the employers to confirm that they would...

Funds for employing overseas nationals should start preparing for H-1B visa program December 04, 2015

Thefunds for private investment and the monetary institutions must specify at this time whether the professional worker would need filing of petition for H-1B visa. The H-1B area of expertise job status allowed the professionals in the fields like quantitative analysts, financial analysts, computer analysts and acc...

Its time to prepare petitions for H-1B Visa for the FY 2017 December 03, 2015

It is not at all too early to start preparing for the limit filings for the H-1B visa. This news has come in as the reminder for the 1st April 2016 deadline for filing the petitions for the H-1B visa for the fiscal year 2017.Petitions for fresh fiscal year, which would be effective from on or after 1st October 2016 wou...

US Senator Dianne Feinstein urges for changes in the visa waiver program December 02, 2015

California’s Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein is the leading from the front in the US Senate and urging for tightening the limitations on the overseas travelers who seek to visit the US but the tourism giants had argued that the Senator’s proposal went too far.The bill was introduced by the Senator Feinstein...

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