When one of its clients was refused entry and Trump’s other crackdown initiatives began, Kothapet-based VisaTree started diversifying its offerings beyond the US.
A 2024 paper found that Deloitte pays US citizens working in tax and audit 10 per cent more than H-1B holders, with ‘critics’ calling it a cost-saving mechanism.
As of 2024, Indian Americans accounted for 1.47% of US population and at least two-thirds of the 5.4 million Indian Americans are immigrants, according to US government data.
US President-elect Donald Trump sides with Tesla CEO & future co-head of Department of Government Efficiency in debate over continuing use of the visa for foreign tech workers.
Trump had instituted Proclamation 10052 in June 2020, halting the processing of non-immigrant H-1B, L-1, H-2B & J-1 visas, based on alleged potential risk to the US labour market.
On 7 January, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced to do away with the traditional lottery system in deciding the successful applicants for the H-1B visas.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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