USA Immigration News

After unfavorable ruling by the US, immigrant leaders explains subsequent steps November 20, 2015

A day after the 5th Circuit had ruled against the Obama Administration executive action on the immigration, the leaders of immigration rights are saying that time has came now for the communities who got affected to act.According to Annette Wong, Program Manager with Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), they are not g...

A dramatic increase in overseas professionals joining the OPT visa program November 19, 2015

The Optional Practical Training program (OPT) permits overseas graduates of the colleges in the US for upto the period of 29 months in a large variety of white collar art, medical, video, journalism, business and technology jobs.Obama administration had already widened the jobs types that could be taken and are now exp...

USCIS provides guidance on the availability of immigrant visa and priority dates November 18, 2015

The Act for Immigration & Nationality (INA) place the limit on no. of immigrant visas that might be granted to the foreign citizens every year, the US State Department (DOS) generally allocates the abovementioned immigrant visas.There are so many immigrant visas that are available every year for the immediate relat...

Infosys to hire 1000 locals in the US for entry level jobs November 18, 2015

The second largest IT service provider in India Infosys is planning to hire local freshers in the US for the entry level jobs in the years to come.The company which is based in Bengaluru, had hired around 250 individuals from the campus for the jobs in the US. The company has also said that this move was part of compan...

Nasscom said that the proposed H-1B visa reforms might not hit IT engineers from India November 17, 2015

The potential IT engineers who seek jobs in the US need not to be worried by the latest reforms that were proposed by the US senators on the H-1B visa rules as the changes might not come through in planned form.These are what the overwhelming views that were coming from the software industry that sends many young IT pr...

A cautious call for all the H-1B visa holders November 16, 2015

Previous week, two Indo –US firms in the Silicon Valley were ordered to pay fines of around $1,03,000 to the federal government of the US.The two staffing firms were engaged in bringing in workers from India and other nations on the H-1B visa to provide them job of software engineers at the Silicon Valley companies l...

US is adding large number of overseas students but fewer Americans study abroad November 16, 2015

According to the latest federal information, the total number of foreign students studying in the colleges and universities of the US has raised by 10% previous year, which also marks the biggest year gain in 35 years. Meanwhile, the number of US students who are studying overseas raised by just 5%, dropping short of...

US Senators introduced new bill for limiting H-1B abuse November 14, 2015

US Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin introduced S.2226 on Tuesday will curb abuse of H-1B visa by the superior technology firms.The bill came as the response to the firms that lay off US workers and replaced them with the cheaper overseas workers. According to the Senators joint statement, thenew bill will prev...

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