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Monday, November 4, 2024
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Topic: Green card

Donald Trump to halt issuing of new green cards for next 60 days

PTI -
Those on non-immigrant work visas (H-1B) and seasonal immigrant workers for agricultural purposes will not be impacted

Trump sows uncertainty with green card ban and hints at more

Nick Wadhams -
Trump’s decision will affect thousands of would-be immigrants seeking to move permanently to the US, and further delays a green card process.

US green card backlog touches 800,000, over 60% applicants are Indians

ThePrint Team -
An Indian applying for the employment-based green card will have to wait for 50 years due to increased backlog and country quota limits.

Green Card country-cap bill faces Senate test after it is passed by US House of Reps

Lalit K Jha -
Lifting the per-country cap would mainly benefit professionals from countries like India, for whom the wait for Green Card is more than a decade.

Indians with advanced degree may have to wait 151 years for green card: Report

Lalit K Jha -
Report says 6,32,219 Indians in line for green cards. Blames the prolonged wait on per-country-limit, pegged at 7% for Indians.

Indian immigrants could end up waiting 70 years for Green Card

Lalit K Jha -
As of May, there were 395,025 people waiting for a Green Card under the employment-based preference category. Of these, an estimated 78% were Indians.

It is not right to penalise Indian H-1B workers who contribute to the US economy

Shivendra Singh -
Decisions should be taken within a six-year period for people who stay back for that long and are waiting for a green card.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

Meenakashi Lekhi -
By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Rank turners take away the fairness of Test cricket, make ordinary spinners extraordinary

Royal Enfield bikes are the new rage in Bangladesh. What happens to ‘boycott India’ now

Economy

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

ThePrint Team -
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Defence

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement treaty with China, to take things ‘slow’

Snehesh Alex Philip -
While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

National Interest

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

Shekhar Gupta -
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.

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