Nikki Haley’s son Nalin Haley joined the social media mocking of the situation of the H-1B visa holders in India who went back home for visa stamping but are now stuck in India as the consulates deferred all appointments by at least six months. Nalin Haley said what the average H-1B haters are saying: Indians […]
Based on reports that US tech majors, including Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, added 32,000 employees in India, social media influencers concluded that the H-1B crackdown has actually backfired and instead of creating more jobs for Americans, these jobs actually exited America as big companies offshored these jobs to India. The figure has been […]
An H-1B visa holder shared the ordeal of random visa revocations that the US Department of State started this December without giving any explanation. The person shared that they had to travel to India on November 2 because of an emergency related to the health crisis of the father and the return ticket was booked […]
Immigration attorneys commented on a new trend they have been observing since the beginning of December, that visas are getting revoked without any valid reason. Immigration attorney Rahul Reddy said the new trend is confusing, as people who have, for example, a DUI case 12 years ago and followed all the rules, got the stamping […]
As the Donald Trump administration moves a step forward to hike H-1B wages by moving to a wage-based lottery instead of a random lottery, an immigration expert weighed in on the proposed changes. Jeremy Neufeld, the immigration policy director at the Institute for Progress, said that as seniority gets priority in this wage-based selection, high […]
Immigration attorney David Santiago said that H-1Bs who are stuck outside the US at this moment because of visa appointment rescheduling will face questions when they re-enter the country again — about their long period of absence. Santiago advised that such candidates should get it in writing from their company that they were allowed to […]
Immigration attorney Emily Neumann said the first thing that H-1B visa holders who are now stuck at home because all appointments have been delayed by at least six months, owing to the social media vetting, is to keep their H-1B job. The expert said that if a person loses his or her job, they will […]
Indian-origin US diplomat Mahvash Siddiqui who claimed to have seen H-1B fraud first hand during her posting in the Chennai consular office in India, said that the entire visa program needs to be paused pending a full program audit. Writing for the Center for Immigration Studies, Siddiqui said fake degrees, forged bank statements, fake marriage/birth […]
A Redditor’s H-1B ordeal turned into hopes for many on the Internet as people said the H-1B sob story gives Americans hope that the system is correcting itself. The Redditor made a long post on how the job situation worsened in a matter of months, beginning from September/October to December. The Redditor claimed to be […]
Vice President JD Vance reacted to the new H-1B row as states now challenge the Donald Trump administration’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, and said the states can instead try hiring Americans. Vance was reacting to Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield’s social media post on suing the new fee, calling it illegal. Dan Rayfield said the […]
