A year ago Francisco Erwin Galicia sat in a Border Patrol holding facility in South Texas alongside dozens of men, many of whom had crossed the border hoping to gain asylum in the U.S. It had been days since his last shower and he was hungry. He sat wondering if his...
The coronavirus crisis and the budget shortfall the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is facing, somehow have turned in favor of immigrants with open processes, who must support their visa, green card and citizenship applications with more...
Trump administration is expected to set limits on a popular program that allows international students to work in the U.S. after graduation while remaining on their student visas. The restrictions on the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program are designed to...
President Trump’s executive order on Monday temporarily suspending many new work visas until the end of 2020 and preventing hundreds of thousands of foreign workers from seeking U.S. jobs was met with consternation by many business leaders, particularly in the tech...
The U.S. Supreme Court has been busy settling landmark cases this week. Monday, it ruled that gay and transgender people are protected from workplace discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. Thursday, it upheld the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,...
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 This bill increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also...
The arrest of 129 Indian students in the US for enrolling in a fake university has sparked questions about how they ended up risking their future to study at a little-known institution. BBC Telugu’s Deepthi Bathini reports. Veeresh (name changed at his request)...
Lawyers representing the students, who had all enrolled in the fake ‘University of Farmington’, say they are being held in ‘pathetic and dangerous’ conditions. New Delhi: A majority of the 600 Indian students, facing deportation from the US...
