Under the EB-5 program, eligible individuals can apply for lawful permanent residence within the United States by investing in a U.S. based commercial enterprise and creating ten full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
The US government revamps its immigration process as applicants will now have to share additional information like social media, email IDs and phone number from the past five years of the application date.
The social media identifiers will be incorporated into a background check review against watchlists generated by the US government.
The DHS said the new rule would be submitted to the Office of Management of Budget (OMB), White House, within three months.
In a document posted on the Federal Register on Thursday, anyone who wants to come to the US on a non-immigrant visa will have to answer a list of questions under new rules.
On the Visa Day, US Embassy in Delhi and its four consulates - Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai - are thrown open exclusively to adjudicate visa applications from Indian students who aspire to pursue higher studies in the US.
The minister of state for also electronics and information technology assured that information collected under Aadhaar was safe and secure and claimed that media reports about data breaches were incorrect.
The plan would protect some 700,000 young immigrants from deportation and provide a pathway to citizenship, an offer the White House described as a concession to Democrats.
Trump has been calling for the merit-based immigration system, of which people from countries like India could be a major beneficiary, to reduce overall immigration to the US.
Trump administration has made it more difficult for the renewal of non-immigrant visas such as H-1B and L1, popular among Indian IT professionals.
According to an analysis by Politico, 26 per cent fewer non-immigrant visas issued to Pakistanis in 2017 as compared to previous year's average.
Sunayana Dumala, whose 32-year-old husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed in a hate crime earlier this year, had lost her permission to stay in the US
This is being done in the best interest of the businesses, the Trump administration argued.
Another Pakistani Senator today alleged that his US visa application was turned down without a valid reason.
Sticking firmly to his roots, Bharatiya Janata Party's member of parliament Virendra Singh Mast today refused a visa by the US Embassy when he asked to remove his 'pagdi' or headgear for the visa documentation.
New Delhi: Prominent poet and film lyricist Rahat Indori today said that he has been denied a US visa. The 66 year old had applied for the visa as he was invited to attend a
Inter-ministerial panel to vet Labour Code on WagesNew Delhi: The high-level committee headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet today and give final touches to the Labour Code on Wages, which will empower the
Washington: The woman who carried out the San Bernardino massacre with her husband came to the U.S. last year on a special visa for fiances of U.S. citizens, raising questions about whether the process can
Chennai: The British government has made it clear that there is no ban as such on issuing visa to Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi."We are not passing judgements on Indian
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