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TopicUS Visa

Topic: US Visa

$1m ‘gold card’ live, $5m ‘platinum card’ soon: Trump’s new visa policy & big revenue generation plan

New 'gold card' visa replaces EB-5 investor programme of 1990s, with ‘big advantage over the green card’. It is projected to generate revenue of over $100 billion for US Treasury.

Trump unveils $1M ‘Gold Card’ visa, promises faster residency for wealthy applicants

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said some 10,000 people have already signed up for the gold card during a pre-registration period and he expected many more to do so.

What is American H-1B visa system & why Trump’s $100,000 fee proclamation triggered panic

Each year, nearly 85,000 H-1B visas are granted via a lottery system. Between October 2022 and September 2023, 72 percent of nearly 4,00,000 visas were granted to Indian nationals. 

‘Theft in US can revoke your visa’, US Embassy warns after Indian woman caught shoplifting

New Delhi: The US Embassy in India has issued a warning stating that committing an assault, theft, or burglary in the United States will...

Indians are gaming US immigration to get Einstein visas meant for top scientists

Immigration lawyers and experts in India told ThePrint that because the EB-1 visa category is intended for a country’s “best of the best,” applications typically face less scrutiny.

‘Make all social media profiles public’—US embassy’s new advisory to student visa applicants

New Delhi: The US Embassy in India Monday issued an advisory to international students, asking all applicants for student and exchange visas to make...

Trump administration tightens social media vetting for foreign students, resumes visa appointments

Trump administration tightens social media vetting for foreign students, resumes visa appointments

US to resume processing Harvard student & visitor visas after judge blocks Trump’s ban

Trump cited national security concerns for restraining international students from entering the US to pursue higher education at Harvard University.

Trump’s new travel ban: List of countries subjected to full & partial restrictions

The proclamation signed by the US president comes into effect on 9 June, 2025. He said the move was needed to protect against 'foreign terrorists' and other security threats.

Indian students, parents now looking beyond US colleges. ‘Will send my kid to UK, sleep easy’

At Akhil Daswani’s study abroad consultancy in Mumbai, students are increasingly adding more countries to their college application list. ‘Only 20 per cent have applied to just US colleges this year,’ he told ThePrint.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.