A 2018 policy allowed immigration officers to reject visa applications, including the H1-B, instead of first issuing a notice of intent to deny visa to applicants.
Simultaneously, the Biden administration announced a number of new commitments to combat trafficking, smuggling, and corruption, as well as investments in economic development.
Speaking on Indian-American doctors' protest against the Green Card's per country quota Wednesday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Biden believes there should be faster processing.
Of roughly 10.3 million undocumented immigrants in the US, 5,87,000 are of Indian origin, says a recently released report by think-tank New American Economy.
Biden’s immigration plan calls for boosting the number of green cards. But House Democrats are weighing a piecemeal approach to immigration that would put more popular measures first.
The revoked orders and memos include those on financial regulation. Biden targeted some of the most controversial executive actions Trump took during his final months in office.
The bill proposes a pathway to citizenship to 11 million undocumented workers, elimination of per country quota for green cards and work authorisation for H-1B workers' dependents.
In Biden's immigration reform bill sent to Congress, White House has proposed elimination of country-quota in allocation of green cards, a major demand of Indian IT professionals.
In 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule allowing certain H4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders to legally seek employment in the US.
India has been pleading for long to bring reforms in institutions like the United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, which it believes are West-dominated and don’t reflect current global realities.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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