Tag: H1B
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US Implements Stricter F-1 and H-1B Visa Regulations; Parliament Raises Concerns: MEA Responds
Indian students and workers seeking to study and work in the US are finding themselves in a tight spot. The Trump administration’s crackdown on legal nonimmigration routes such as F-1 study visas for students and H-1B visas for workers has raised concerns among many Indian students, parents, and talented workers. Queries for the Minister of…
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IT Firm Prioritizes H1B Visa Holders Over US Citizens for American Jobs – Report
A global IT staffing firm has been accused of putting out a hiring post that only sought to attract lawful H-1B visa holders for certain jobs, while completely ruling out American citizens or green card holders for the same. The company in question is reportedly LanceSoft. US IT firm hiring only H-1B visa holders? According…
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Indian H-1B Kidney Doctor Delays North Carolina Practice Awaiting $100,000 Fee Waiver
While the Donald Trump administration’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee was meant for a deterrent for the tech industry to hire from overseas, the rural healthcare system is suffering now for want of good doctors as they can’t pay $100,000. The Washington Post reported the plight of a health facility in Shelby, a small town in…
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Dream Act 2025: Renewed Green Card Prospects for Dreamers and H-1B Holder Children
The Dream Act has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Dick Durbin and Senator Lisa Murkowski. This bipartisan bill would allow Dreamers, the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives, to apply for protection from deportation and an…
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Impact of Trump’s H-1B Order on Indian Applicants: Understanding the New Family Scrutiny
Trump’s New H-1B Order Could Put Indians At Risk: What the New Family Scrutiny Really Means Times Now Trump To Ban Visas For Fact-Checkers, Censors: How It Will Affect Indians NDTV No US visa for fact checkers, content moderators because ‘Trump’s social media accounts were once locked’ Times of India ‘Laying off US workers while hiring H-1B workers’:…
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Silicon Valley CTO’s Humorous Take on $100K H-1B Visa Fee and Hiring from India
Shahriar Tajbakhsh, the CTO and co-founder of Metaview AI, which sells software to help automate job interviews, joked about the $100,000 H-1B yearly visa fee and said ‘make it per day’. The company recently created a social media stir as they did their hiring in India, the hub of H-1B, fearing neither the fee nor…
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Impact of US Work Permit Validity Changes on Indian H-1B Visa Holders
The Donald Trump administration has announced a massive validity cut for Employment Authorization Documents, commonly known as work permits, starting from December 5. Instead of five years, from now on, the maximum validity of work permits will be 18 months. This applies to both new and renewal of EADs filed on or after December 5.…
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Impact of Reduced Employment Authorization Document Validity on Green Card and H-1B Workers
Story in Brief USCIS has reduced the maximum validity period of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) from 5 years back to 18 months for several categories, effective for applications filed on or after December 5, 2025. The change follows the earlier decision to end automatic EAD extensions, meaning foreign workers must renew early within 180 days…
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Former Visa Officer Highlights Average Graduates’ Use of H-1B Program
Former US consular officer and researcher Simon Hankinson argued that the H-1B visa programme had been diverted from its original purpose. Hankinson, who conducted his first H-1B visa interview in India 25 years ago, stated that early in his career he became convinced that many visa recipients were “average college-graduate workers”, rather than the highly…