Consulate General of India in Dubai. Indian nationals in the UAE can now book appointments online for passport, visa and attestation services as Indian diplomatic missions introduce a new appointment system to ease long queues during an ongoing transition of outsourced consular services.The Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi and the Consulate General of India […]
Indian student shares F-1 visa rejection experience. An Indian student recently shared the experience of F-1 visa rejection in a two-minute interview, while the case has no apparent loopholes. The student applied for the visa to study an MS in Computer Science at the University of Maryland and the program starts on August 31. The […]
Texas is not renewing the driver’s licenses of those visa holders whose stamping has expired. Immigration attorney Emily Neumann has confirmed that what started as some sporadic incidents of Texas denying renewal of a driver’s license to those whose visa stamping had expired is now becoming a new rule that would affect visa holders in […]
Several new visa rules are coming into effect from July 1. From July 1, the beginning of the second half of the year, several new rules are coming into effect as far as visa rules are concerned. While the US starts a new pilot program for fast tourist visa, Australia increases the minimum salary of […]
A former visa officer said Indian students consider a visa interview like a test, and they memorize answers that sound like lies. Reacting to Indian students getting rejected at their F1 visa interview despite not lying, former visa officer Yvette Bansal said Indians are taught to memorize everything, and they take this visa interview as […]
A US federal judge on Monday struck down the $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump had imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, calling it unlawful.District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued a ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging the fee announced by Trump in […]
A US State Department spokesperson recently said that no visa laws specifically target India — all new rules are being globally implemented. As India contributes the highest number of H-1B visa holders to the US, any change in the H-1B visa rule affects Indi first. The social media vetting introduced in December 2025 pushed H-1B […]
More than $580,000 has been seized by Australian authorities following an investigation into a visa fraud scheme linked to a 61-year-old man from the New South Wales Central Coast.The case centred on the misuse of Australia’s immigration system, including the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme. Investigators claimed the man received large sums of money for helping […]
A federal judge invalidated Donald Trump’s ban on 39 countries. A US federal judge ruled on Friday that the Donald Trump administration’s immigration ban on 39 countries imposed after last November’s DC shooting was unlawful. Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, ruled that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services had adopted […]
Britain targets student visa abuse with tough new rules for universities / Image: File Universities in England could face restrictions on recruiting overseas students or even lose their sponsorship licences under new government plans aimed at tackling abuse of the student visa system.The measures, announced by the UK Home Office on Wednesday, form part of […]
