MUMBAI: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday that it will increase premium processing fees for H-1B visas starting October 19. As TOI had previously reported, the bill – HR 8337, signed by the President of the United States Donald trump it also allowed the immigration agency …
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The interim final rule announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, less than four weeks before the US presidential election, will reduce the definition of “specialty occupation” as Congress intended by closing the too broad definition that allowed businesses. play with the system. It will also require companies …
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NEW YORK: The Donald Trump administration moved on Tuesday to trim H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers and tighter wage-based barriers to entry citing “data” that more than 500,000 Americans have lost their jobs due to “H-1B nonimmigrants.” India and China account for the majority of H-1B visas. According to …
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Representative image (Reuters) The H-1B visa ruling immediately suspends a series of visa restrictions that prevent manufacturers from filling crucial and hard-to-fill jobs to support economic recovery, growth and innovation when they are needed most, the National Association said. Manufacturers. PTI Last update: October 2, 2020 8:34 AM IST FOLLOW …
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WASHINGTON: A federal judge has blocked the execution of the H-1B visa ban issued by US President Donald Trump in June of this year, saying the president exceeded his constitutional authority. The order was issued Thursday by District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California. The lawsuit against …
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US President Donald Trump arrives for a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on February 25, 2020. (REUTERS / Adnan Abidi) US District Judge Amit P Mehta in his order Wednesday said that Indian nationals, who are now stranded abroad during …
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NEW DELHI: The Trump administration’s decision to reduce the widely used H-1B visas by foreign tech workers in the United States survived an initial court challenge. President Donald Trump’s June 22 proclamation declaring foreign workers a risk to the US job market amid the coronavirus pandemic sparked a pushback from …
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New York: US President Donald Trump suspended the entry of some foreign workers on Monday until the end of the year, a move by the White House that would help the coronovirus-battered economy, but which business groups strongly oppose. The effects of the proclamation cannot be felt immediately because the …
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Analysts suggest that the Trump administration’s suspension of H-1B visas and other temporary work permits, which American unemployed may not have a major impact on Indian technology service companies, is intended to protect. Indian technology majors like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies have reduced their dependency by …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Several US lawmakers have introduced legislation in Congress to grant unused green cards or permanent legal residency to thousands of foreign nurses and doctors to meet the urgent needs of the overburdened healthcare sector in the United States. The Health Care Workforce Resilience Act would allow for the …
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