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USCIS said immigrants should view the site for dates of their Green Card October 15, 2015

USCIS says that the immigrants should view the site for dates of their Green Card

The Citizenship and Immigration Services of the US on Wednesday confirmed that the immigrants would now require to check USCIS website every month for viewing which visa bulletin chart is governing their ability for filing the applications forgreen card.This announcement will add another twist to the confusion that h...

Congress should let the EB-5 visa program to get expired October 14, 2015

As the session of the Congress is winding down, the Congress shall not reauthorize the components of the EB-5 investor visa program permanently.Under this program, the overseas investors with their families could qualify for the permanent residency immigration if they are going to invest a minimum $5,00,000 in the US a...

Thousands of highly skilled overseas workers unable to file early Green Card visas for US October 14, 2015

Thousands are not able to file early US permanent residence visas

Thousands of skilled overseas workers has been left out as they are not able to file an early application for the adjustment of the status to the green card visa of the US which is also an employment-based visa, after the US State Department had revised this month’s visa bulletin without any explanation, which was is...

More than a Quarter of students in Illinois are studying STEM and new research findings October 13, 2015

More than a quarter of students in Illinois colleges are studying STEM and new research findings

Students in Illinois colleges are flocking towards STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects’ stream at much higher rates than the average. According to the recent study report from the Science and Technology Coalition Illinois (ISTC).In their most recent Innovation Index looking at condition of tale...

Immigrants have a rising role in the Science and Technology workforce of the US October 09, 2015

In the science and engineering workforce of the US, the immigrants have the rising presence. As per the new reports from the National Science Foundation. Since 2003-13, in these ten years there has been an increase in the number of US engineers and the scientists. The immigrant numbers increased to 18% which makes 5.2 ...

USCIS will start accepting H-1B petitions for the FY 2017 on 1st April 2016 October 09, 2015

USCIS to accept H-1B petitions for the year 2017 in April 2016

The period of filing the new H-1B petitions for the next fiscal year 2017 will start from 1st April 2016. The H-1B petitions which are subject to limit will have employment starting date of 1st October, 2016 or later.To prepare for the start of the fiscal year 2017 period of H-1B filing, the employers are strongly mo...

Leading Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio favouring increase in H-1B visa October 09, 2015

Leading Republican presidential candidate Rubio favouring increase in the H-1B visa

According to the media report, Marco Rubio, Republican presidential candidate had favored a considerable increase in the H-1B visa numbers. He argued that in the US, there is high skilled manpower shortage.Marco Rubio is maintaining his ranking in top five in the crowded field of 17 candidates for Republican presiden...

Visa issues in the US is disrupting the lives of skilled immigrants October 08, 2015

In the month of September, the US State Department gave exciting news to many legal high skilled immigrants who were stuck for many years in the visa backlog waiting for the green cards, that they will take a big step on 1st October along their way to their documents.Then suddenly without explaining, on the 25th of Sep...

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