The Trump administration introduced the new fee last month, arguing that the H-1B system has allowed companies to replace American workers with lower-cost labour from overseas.
Spotlight of other publications on India's anti-Maoist strategy blurring lines between rebels & civilians, and Indian students stranded by steep H-1B visa fee hike.
I write this open letter to Chandrababu Naidu as Indian emigration and return becomes a hot issue. Many H-1B workers in the US are from Andhra Pradesh: Jaithirth Rao
Why is India, under the guise of humanitarianism, being coerced into accepting people with unknown antecedents from countries that don’t want their own people?
According to USCIS, the re-submission is for those whose applications have been rejected or administratively closed solely because the start date was after 1 October 2020.
Biden’s decision will please business groups from Silicon Valley giants to Indian IT firms which had pressured the administration to lift the ban ever since he took office.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
Beyond the immediate protection of Israel and its borders, which the USA could reasonably commit itself to, it did not need to get into every war in the Muslim world.
When conflict with Iran ends, says the report, area’s key players are likely to reexamine longstanding assumptions & alliances as they determine how best to advance their interests.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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