USA Immigration News

Now up to three years OPT for foreign STEM students with limit gap relief October 20, 2015

DHS proposes up to 3 years OPT for foreign STEM students with limit gap relief

The US Homeland Security Department (DHS) has proposed changing its rules on OPT program for allowing the foreign students with US degrees in STEM-related streams that is attained from the institutions for extending it by 24 months the 12 month standard OPT period that is available to them for living in the US for pu...

US daily has raised $15,000 to carry out stories on H-1B workers October 19, 2015

For the prospective immigrants who seek and the companies who always look out to get benefited from the loosening of rules for this H-1B visa, a US daily had taken a strange step by increasing the USD 15,000 for carrying out the comprehensive multimedia project that reports on the H-1B visas.San Francisco Chronicle s...

US DV Lottery offering employees optional path for immigration October 17, 2015

US DV Lottery offers optional immigration path for employees

The US state department opened the registrations of theDiversity Visa Lottery for the year 2017 on 1st October and it will be closing on 3rd November 2015. This program will allow the individuals from the nations with less immigration rates to the US for obtaining the legal permanent residency or US green card. There...

DHS proposed changes to on job training program for overseas STEM students October 17, 2015

DHS proposed changes to the program of on job training for overseas STEM students

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed the changes to rules that will provide strength and enhances the process for the overseas students who study in US with the STEM degrees for getting experience of practical training in the US.According to the DHS, the improvement of this rule was announced as part ...

US Educational Travel Council announced High School Program with study abroad opportunities October 16, 2015

US announces High School Program with study abroad opportunities

The US Educational Travel Council has announced their study abroad high school program for the year 2016-2017 with the semester ,short term, and academic year abroad study opportunities in the countries like Australia, Brazil, Argentina, China, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Japan, M...

Forum for Trade Policy looking at the US L-1 Visas for the Indians October 16, 2015

The Trade Policy Forum is looking at US L-1 Visas for the Indians

The trade policy forum (National Foundation for American Policy) finds that only 44% of the applications for the L-1B visa for employing the Indians were issued, when compared to overall grant of 87% for all the countries. It seems to be easier to obtain L-1A visas for the foreign executive or managers than the L-1B vi...

Warm welcome for the new US citizens October 16, 2015

Warm welcome given to the new citizens of the US

The USCIS Director Leon Rodriguez had administered the Oath of faithfulness at the naturalization ceremony for the 35 citizenship candidates on Wednesday at the City Hall of Philadelphia.The speakers who were present at the ceremony were Rose Kendrick who is the USCIS Philadelphia acting district director, Richard Negr...

USCIS issued the guidance on the extreme hardship and expansion of provisional waiver program October 15, 2015

USCIS had issued guidance on the extreme hardship and expansion of provisional waiver program

Two latest developments with regards to the extreme hardship waivers would allow many applicants to apply and should also result in the approval of higher proportion for the well-prepared applicants. Primarily, USCIS announced that the process of provisional waiver will be made accessible to all the people who have imm...

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