The Chamber said the restrictions on H-1B visa will harm the US economy and business as it prevents merit-based immigration.
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In an effort to curb immigration, visa approvals for distant relatives of immigrants dropped by 70 percent in the first nine months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016.
The husband and wife duo helped their clients in getting H-1B visas approved.
According to the latest rule, all petitions using Form I-29 Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, which includes H-1B and L-1 visas, will bear the impact.
The Indian IT giants including Infosys, TCS, and Wipro have univocally denied such claims of draining American jobs.
“Expected and needed program reforms will increase transparency and integrity for all stakeholders in the EB-5 market place,” says Rajan.
In March this year, Khanna had introduced a bipartisan bill.
People who have applied for the green card based on employment visas, for instance, H-1B and L-1, and refugee/asylee relative petitioners will now be interviewed in-person before granting permanent residency.
Jayapal said limiting the H-1B visa program would hurt the US economy. She also stressed for a smooth transition from H-1B to immigration for those who choose to stay back.
The new mandate, part of Trump’s “extreme vetting” of immigrants, will slow down green card process.
USCIS has not made the transcript of the discussion on H-1B public, as is its policy.
The H-1B report has an extensive detailing of the hiring practices of employers
O visa is not capped like the H-1B.
These fake immigration agents, Hardev Singh Panesar, Gurdev Singh, and Rafael “Rafa” Hastie, have duped victims of more $6 million.
The justice department enumerates recent instances of H-1B visa fraud where individuals and companies trying to bilk the immigration department.
The couple charged their clients between $500 and $1,300 for the fraudulent immigration applications.
Kurusu allegedly placed advertisements about his firm in Hyderabad.
“Buy Americans Hire Americans” executive order signed by Trump earlier this week.
The executive order was signed during Trump’s visit to the headquarters of Snap-On.
The agency received 199,000 H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2018.
The investigators found that while the program was put in place to attract highly skilled guestworkers, but it became a trajectory for low-cost foreign labor.
Report estimates more than 1.4 million authorized foreign workers, out of which more than 460,000 were on H-1B visas, in the US, 2013; discrepancies in L-1 visa data by DOS and USCIS.
The Indian American legislator says we “cannot allow for companies to underpay foreign workers and use them to replace American workers.”
pleaded guilty on September 21st to identity theft and money laundering.
EB-5 visa investment amount hiked to $1.35 million – $1.8 million minimum.