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Kharge slams $100K H-1B visa fee as 'birthday return gift' from Trump to P
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
"Indians are pained by the return gifts you have received after the birthday call. Birthday Return Gifts from your "Abki Baar, Trump Sarkar" Govt! USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas, hits Indian tech workers the hardest, 70 per cent of H-1B visa holders are Indians," Kharge wrote in a p
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Trump's H-1B visa fee hike "two-edged sword" for US innovation, India's IT
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Former senior Indian diplomat Mahesh Sachdev on Saturday described US President Donald Trump's proclamation of imposing a USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications as a "two-edged sword", warning that it could undermine America's IT innovation while significantly impacting Indian com
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Tech giants urge H-1B holders to stay in US after Trump's visa overhaul, a
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Amid the looming implementation of US President Donald Trump's overhaul of the H-1B visa programme, tech giants Amazon and Microsoft on Saturday advised their foreign employees holding H-1B and H-4 visas to immediately return to the United States and urged the H-1B holders to stay in the
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"What greater gift for Modi?": AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj's jibe after US i
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
After the United States imposed a USD 100,000 fee for H1B visa applications, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA and party's Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, saying that US president Donald Trump has given a "gift" to India by sending people ba
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"America's loss will be India's gain": ex-NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant sees
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Former NITI Aayog CEO and ex-G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant hailed US President Donald Trump's H-1B visa overhaul as a potential boon for India's innovation ecosystem, asserting that the restrictive USD 100,000 fee per visa application will stifle US foreign talent inflows and redirect global br
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New visa programme will end foreign workers 'taking jobs from hard-working
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick lauded the Trump administration's recent overhaul in its visa programmes, announcing that these new visa programmes will ensure foreign workers provide "significant benefit" to the US by ending practices where they "take jobs from hard-working Ameri
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Indian National brutally killed in Dallas, incident sparks discussion in U
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
An Indian national working at a motel in Dallas, Texas, was brutally killed by a Cuban migrant who had been previously released from US immigration custody after Cuba refused to accept his deportation.
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"We are deeply concerned over arrest of our nationals": South Korean FM am
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun on Saturday chaired an emergency meeting in Seoul, where he confirmed that out of 457 people taken into custody, over 300 were South Koreans, as per Yohnap News.
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"Men do not belong in women's sports": US Immigration Services restricts
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its immigration policy to restrict visa eligibility for transgender women seeking to compete in women's sports.
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US Justice Dept files complaint against judge over Trump remarks
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The complaint, authored by Bondi's chief of staff Chad Mizelle, has been submitted to Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Fox News reported.
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US tightens visa rules for Pakistani applicants
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The US consulates in Karachi and Lahore have instructed F, M, and J visa applicants to make their social media profiles public for enhanced vetting, ARY News reported. The move is part of stricter US immigration checks aimed at improving national security and detecting potential threats.
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US National Guard detains anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles amid rising t
Updated : 9 months ago IST
National Guard troops in Los Angeles have detained some protesters opposing ICE operations but handed them over to local police, Fox News reported. Over 4,000 troops and 700 Marines were deployed amid tensions. Governor Newsom has challenged the deployment, while the Trump administration
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