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In an attempt to improve existing high-skilled, merit-based immigration laws, amendments are moved to a White House-backed immigration bill by a top Republican lawmaker named Senator Orrin Hatch. The proposal for merit-based immigration laws could be of a big benefit technology professionals from countries like India. Hatch aims to eliminate...

The White house has announced that the immigration framework of the US President Donald Trump will end the green card backlog of high-skilled workers by ending the diversity lottery visa. The announcement comes amid the growing demand by the Indian H-1B visa holders for the removal of allotment as...

An Indian student named Rachit Patel has won a 1,000-pound grant for becoming the 1,000th student to enrol at Birmingham City University International College (BCUIC). The 19-year-old from Mumbai has celebrated the milestone along with teachers and students. Rachit Patel who began his studies on the Art and Design Foundation...

A media report came to light, regarding a controversial republican Memo which is written by an Indian American Kashyap “Kash” Patel. President Donald Trump finally declassified it after week long bickering and social media trolling. This Kash memo accuses FBI of political bias and portrays them negatively. The memo stated...

In yet another reaffirmation, President Donald Trump has reiterated that he is totally supporting a merit based and a fair immigration system. And he would like to do away with lottery based visa or green cards which in his words is “terrible”. At the address to the 2018 House and...

Experts are in the view that there will be a hike in February 2018 in the investment limits under the EB5 visa scheme, popularly known as the "Golden Visa". The deadline for the Golden Visa scheme has been extended by the US Congress last week till 8 February 2018....

A US advocacy group has launched a new proposal for an additional one-time payment of USD 2,500 fee by the green card aspirants to get America's coveted legal permanent residency. According to the Immigration Voice, the estimated fund of USD 4 billion, collected through the channel from green card aspirants...

A new nationwide campaign was launched by a few eminent Indian Americans in the US for the removal of the green card backlog. The newly-launched group is named the GCReforms.org. The motive behind the campaign is to create awareness about the huge green card backlog. According to them, the...

Shantanu Narayen, the Indian-American Adobe CEO, will lead the USISPF board i.e. the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum. He has been elected as the USISPF board's vice chairman. As per a statement from the body, the organization was newly set up to improve the business relations between the US...

The recent development for Indian immigrants seeking investment based US residency is expected to see a change soon. Though the US government plans to continue the investment based Green Card in EB 5 category but it would get costlier by as much as 5 crore. The recent steps by...