H-1B visa: Bill introduced seeking exemption for non-US citizens with PhD from American universities

Washington: A bill has been re-introduced in the House of Representatives that seeks exemption for foreign- born persons with an American Ph.D. in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from the limits on the number of employment-based green cards and H-1B...

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By Nagpur Today On Friday, April 21st, 2017

Arun Jaitley meets US Commerce Secretary, raises H-1B visa issue

New Delhi: The vexed issue of restrictions on American H-1B visas has been taken up with the US administration by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his ongoing visit to the US, an Indian official said on Friday. The issue was raised...

By Nagpur Today On Tuesday, April 18th, 2017

Trump to sign executive order on H-1B visa

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order that would tighten the process of issuing H-1B visas and seek a review of the system for creating an “entirely new structure” to award these visas, the most...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, March 4th, 2017

H-1B visa reform to be part of immigration package: US to India

Washington: The US has assured India that the H-1B visas issue was not a priority for it and would be part of the larger immigration reforms package that the new Trump administration is working on. The assurance came amid an ongoing...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, December 10th, 2016

Won’t allow H-1B visa holders to replace US workers, says Donald Trump

Washington: President-elect Donald Trump has said he would not allow Americans to be replaced by foreign workers, in an apparent reference to cases like that of Disney World and other American companies wherein people hired on H-1B visas, including Indians,...

By Nagpur Today On Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Indian IT firms breathe easy as ‘discriminatory’ H-1B visa fee lapses in US Congress

Washington: In a development that could be construed as a breather for Indian IT firms, the "discriminatory" $2,000 H-1B fee mostly imposed on them has now lapsed in a Republican-majority US Congress. The charges, often called outsourcing fee, had forced...