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Donald Trump’s Gold Card: Every visa that exists in America | World News

[ad_1] America’s immigration system has always resembled a giant Rube Goldberg machine: elaborate, unpredictable and held together by paperwork, pressure and political mood swings. Students enter one end, workers fall through the lottery chute, families get stuck on conveyor belts that move once every few years, and investors poke around looking for the least painful […]

‘Please do not…’: Stranded Indian H-1B’s request on Reddit goes viral amid visa chaos

[ad_1] As hundreds of H-1B visa holders have been left with no other option other than biding their time in India as the US State Department canceled maximum visa appointments of December and rescheduled them to March 2026, a request from a Redditor has gone viral. The Redditor urged fellow Indians who are in the […]

Man who torched AP Dhillon’s car in his BC home was living in Canada on expired students’ visa, fled to India, reveal court documents

[ad_1] Vikram Sharma, the Indian-origin man who fled to India after he was identified as one of the accused who torched Punjabi musician Ap Dhillon’s vehicles at his British Columbia home at the behest of the Lawrence Boshnoi gang, was at that time living in Canada illegally. His student visa expired in April 2024 and […]

5 years of social media history: Visitors who don’t require visa to enter US will have to submit old phone numbers, unused email addresses

[ad_1] The new proposal of the Donald Trump administration to seek five years of social media history has spread confusion as this rule will be imposed on people from countries that are on US visa waiver. The five-year social media history is the latest in a series of immigration crackdowns that the Trump administration unleashed […]

‘Prolonged leave or work from India’: Immigration attorney says H-1B visa appointment cancelations will have ‘devastating’ effect on US economy

[ad_1] As the State Department pushed hundreds of H-1B visa appointments in India to 2026 without any warning, the impact will be devastating, immigration attorney Ellen Freeman wrote on her LinkedIn, adding that US economy will suffer too as Indian workers are now stuck in their own country. H-1B candidates started receiving emails from the […]

Indian-origin man, on student visa in US, charged for defrauding elderly people; was working as a middleman in major scam

[ad_1] A 25-year-old Indian man who was in the US on a student visa has been charged with defrauding elderly people in Rhode Island. Samyag Uday Doshi, who claimed to be a student of Massachusetts University, was arrested in November when he went to make a pick-up of cash from an elderly person who was […]

No US visa for fact checkers, content moderators because ‘Trump’s social media accounts were once locked’

[ad_1] The Donald Trump administration has moved to deny visas to fact-checkers, content moderators who have engaged in “censoring the free speech of US citizens”. The State Department has sent a memo to overseas missions this week directing consular officials to deny visas to any applicant “responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship […]

‘Make it per day’: Iran-born Silicon Valley CTO who hires from India jokes about yearly $100,000 H-1B visa fee

[ad_1] Shahriar Tajbakhsh, the CTO and co-founder of Metaview AI, which sells software to help automate job interviews, joked about the $100,000 H-1B yearly visa fee and said ‘make it per day’. The company recently created a social media stir as they did their hiring in India, the hub of H-1B, fearing neither the fee […]

Work permit validity cut in US: Will it impact Indian H-1Bs? Which type of visa holders are affected most?

[ad_1] The Donald Trump administration has announced a massive validity cut for Employment Authorization Documents, commonly known as work permits, starting from December 5. Instead of five years, from now on, the maximum validity of work permits will be 18 months. This applies to both new and renewal of EADs filed on or after December […]

Expect massive visa backlogs: Ex-USCIS official’s warning as Trump orders review of Green Cards

[ad_1] 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 […]