USA Immigration News

President Obama's migration plan would allow work permits for overseas professionals November 03, 2015

President Obama administration has prepared a new memo that will allow the employers to rapidly and economically get the work permits for hiring millions of less wage overseas graduates.If it is approved by Obama, then it is expected that around 3 million workers, migrants and the students including 1.5 million college...

No legislation on US immigration reforms until end of 2016 November 03, 2015

Legislation on US immigration reforms not before 2016 end

The new speaker for the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, has ruled out any legislation on the immigration reforms until the nation gets its new president and end of the year 2016.This is not going to be good news for thousands of Indians who are working or residing in the US or for those who are waiting for thei...

DV Immigration Programme 2017 is coming to its closure October 31, 2015

DV Immigration Programme 2017 is approaching to its closure

The US State Department started accepting the applications for the DV immigration Program for the year 2017 from 1st October 2015 is now nearing to its closure. As all the eligible applicants were advised to submit their applications for the DV Program for the year 2017 before 3rd November 2015.The DV Immigration Progr...

Technology world pushes for reforms in US skilled migrant immigration October 30, 2015

The reforms in immigration have become the centre of focus in the politics of the US as the race for the next year presidential election heats up. This week immigration was the subject at the Republican presidential debate, which sparked the controversy over the technology’s role in the scene of politics.At the mid...

India and US to continue dialog on visa and issues of double taxation October 30, 2015

India and US keeps on talking about visa and issues of double taxation

India and US have decided to continue their dialogue on the annoying issues like agreement for the intention of avoiding the double taxation of the income with respect to the taxes under social security.According to Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, there has been a stable development o...

US STEM graduates may get work permits extensions October 29, 2015

STEM graduates may get extensions of their work permits

Previous week the Homeland Security Department had proposed the expansion of OPT program for the college students who are in the US on the non immigrant F-1 visa.The OPT program allows the college students to work in their study field in the US for a year initially, after which the STEM students can apply for extension...

USCIS held teleconference on filing annual Form I-924A for EB-5 regional centers October 28, 2015

USCIS recently held a teleconference as part of the series for providing information on EB-5. It was mainly concerned on the time of filing the form I-924A that should be filed yearly for demonstrating the eligibility for the designation as the regional center.USCIS also indicated that the regional centers can file the...

E-1 and E-2 Treaty Visas can be seen as alternative for H-1B and L-1 visas October 27, 2015

E-1 and E-2 Treaty Visas can be seen as options for H-1B and L-1 visas

There is continuous concern about difficulties in getting the L-1B visas for the employees with specialized knowledge levels. Sometimes it becomes difficult for meeting the L-1B visa requirements due to the uncertainties of what exactly qualifies as the employee with specialized knowledge levels.Another popular nonimmi...

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