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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicH-1B visa

Topic: H-1B visa

US President Trump orders freeze on H1-B, H-4 visas till end of 2020

Justin Sink -
The order was signed by Donald Trump Monday as the US faces an unemployment rate of 13.3% after businesses closed or reduced staff in response to the Covid crisis.

India needs policy ‘predictability’ to be an alternative to China: US-India trade body

Nayanima Basu -
Mukesh Aghi, president & CEO of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, says India should make some things easier for companies, like Vietnam & Cambodia do.

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.

Under Trump’s new rules, spouses of Indian H-1B visa holders may soon lose their jobs

Saritha Rai -
A study has found that such a shift would likely isolate spouses socially, raise domestic tensions and strain the family’s financial resources.

Curtailing immigration to the US would hurt the country, says top strategist Richard Haass

Vandana Menon -
Haass says Indian immigrants are important to US economy, and hopes the Indian govt will raise the issue of H-1B visas with the US.

The Indian H-1B worker in Trump’s US is like the Muslim in Modi’s India

Rohit Chopra -
Even for tech behemoths from Cisco to IBM, Facebook to Google, there is no sentimental love or preference for Indians, writes Rohit Chopra.

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.

For Donald Trump, Indian techies are just operating systems and not human beings

Sandip Roy -
If Indians thought Trump would be different just because he showed up at a song-and-dance Hindu rally, they have only themselves to blame.
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Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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