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Salary-Weighted H-1B Visa Selection: Tough on Indian undergraduate student
Updated : 2 days, 14 hours ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 12: MPOWER Financing, a leading global firm enabling high-potential international students to pursue higher education abroad, has shared its assessment of the newly announced changes to the U.S. H-1B visa program. MPOWER's internal modeling, based on the
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Texas launches broad probe into alleged H-1B visa abuse by North Texas fir
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
The investigation, revealed in a statement issued January 28, signals an escalation in the state's scrutiny of companies suspected of exploiting the federal visa system.
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"I'm gonna welcome those people": Trump defends H-1B visas, counters MAGA
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
US President Donald Trump defended the H-1B visa programme, arguing that skilled foreign workers are essential for advanced industries. He said critics in his MAGA base "don't understand" that companies need experts to train Americans, even as some Republicans urge him to end the programme.
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UAE Launches New Category under the Golden Visa Programme
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 18: The UAE has recently announced a new Golden Visa category. The intended audience for this new Golden Visa category is waqf donors, or people who donate to endowment (waqf) projects that support humanitarian causes, are eligible for this new category for Golden
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"Totally unacceptable": Telangana CM Revanth Reddy on H1B visa fee hike
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) made a major overhaul to the H-1B visa programme, imposing a steep USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications.
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US Commerce Secretary says Trump's Gold Card visa program officially live
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that US President Donald Trump's 'Gold Card' visa programme, which will provide permanent residency to individuals at USD 1 million and corporations sponsoring employees at USD 2 million, is officially live now.
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Congress leaders slam US decision to Impose $100K H-1B visa fee
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
President Trump's presidential proclamation is set to take effect on September 21. The order represents one of the Trump administration's most aggressive efforts yet to overhaul the H-1B visa programme. Framed as a crackdown on "systemic abuse", it places strict financial and compliance burd
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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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Spotlight on IT companies as Trump imposes USD 100,000 fee for H1B visas
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) issued a new presidential proclamation titled "Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers" that introduces a major overhaul to the H-1B visa programme, imposing a steep USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, raising fre
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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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Trump announces USD 1 million "Gold Card" visa program for residency
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order for a 'Gold Card' visa programme with fees set at USD 1 million for individuals and USD 2 million for businesses.
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"H-1B program is a scam": Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
During an interview on Fox News on Wednesday (local time), he claimed that companies often train American workers alongside H-1B visa holders, only to lay off the Americans and hire the foreign workers. DeSantis added that this practice is unacceptable and hurts American workers.
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