A former immigration official said it would not be surprising if the Donald Trump administration permanently ends the Green Card program altogether, after it stopped the Green Card lottery citing the bad actor of Brown University shooting, who also killed an MIT professor. Green Card lottery is different from Green Card programs as the lottery […]
The Donald Trump administration suspended the Green Card lottery program after Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who came to the US through this lottery pathway was found to be the suspect of Brown University shooting and he also killed an MIT professor. Valente was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot. Valente […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has suspended the diversity green card lottery programme, saying it allowed the suspect in the deadly Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the United States, as his administration moved to tighten legal immigration channels following the attacks.Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem […]
The US State Department released the first visa bulletin of 2026, promising good news for Indian Green Card applicants falling in the category of EB-1, as their Final Action Dates moved by one year, meaning that the waiting time to get a Green Card will be reduced. For EB-1 category India, the final action date […]
An Indian-origin woman has been detained by the ICE during her Green Card interview at Long Island, blindsiding her family members, Long Beach Watchdog reported. 60-year-old Bubblly Kaur has been living in the US since 1994 and used to operate Natraj Cuisine of India and Nepal in Long Beach, along with her husband, until the […]
A massive delay in processing all forms of immigration applications is now inevitable as the Donald Trump administration ordered a re-review of all Green Cards issued during the Biden administration to the nationals of 19 countries of concern. All asylum cases approved under the Biden administration from these 19 countries will also be reviewed again. […]
The Donald Trump administration has come up with a host of immigration rules in the past week in the aftermath of the DC shooting. While restricting illegal aliens has been in the works, the DC shooter suspect’s Afghan origin pushed the administration to announce a host of new measures. Travel ban on around 30 countries […]
Trump halts Green Cards for refugees who entered the US between 2021 and 2025 during the Biden administration. The Donald Trump administration’s decision to hold 235,000 Green Cards for refugeeswho entered the US between 2021 and 2025 met strong responses from humanitarian groups, NGOs who called the sudden surprise from the government during the Thanksgiving […]
Greta Thunberg banned from Venice for pouring green dye into UNESCO site Grand Canal in protest Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was banned from Venice for two days and was asked to pay a fine of £131 after she and her team painted the Grand Canal green by pouring green dye, which they claimed was not […]
Trump freezes Green Card for refugees admitted to the US by the Joe Biden administration. The Donald Trump administration has made a major decision to reinterview certain refugees who were admitted to the US by the previous Joe Biden administration. Until the reinterview, the administration will not proceed with the process of granting the refugees […]
