[ad_1] TOI correspondant from Washington: Two years after he led a second trade mission to India seeking closer energy and tech ties, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has dropped a hammer on H-1B visas. Responding to growing MAGA sentiment against all immigration amid allegations of visa fraud, Abbott on Tuesday ordered an immediate freeze on new […]
[ad_1] UAE Residents Rush to Plan Summer 2026 Holidays as Schengen Visa Delays and Travel Costs Bite As summer 2026 approaches, UAE travellers are no longer waiting until spring to organise getaways to Europe, the UK or other popular destinations. According to travel agents in Dubai, enquiries and bookings for July and August departures have […]
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence could replace most software coding tasks within the next six to twelve months, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, predicted.Amodei made the comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos during a session on how AI could reshape work and society. He said engineers at Anthropic already changed how they worked, with […]
[ad_1] Bangladeshi nationals approved for a B1/B2 (business and tourist) United States visa will be required to post a bond of up to $15,000 from January 21, 2026, the US Embassy in Dhaka announced on it’s social media page. This new rule will apply only to visas issued on or after that date. Nationals holding […]
[ad_1] The US state department froze the immigrant visa process for 75 countries, including Pakistan, and the US embassy in Islamabad said the immigrant visa would be stopped for Pakistan from January 21.Earlier, the state department indefinitely suspended the processing of immigrant visas from 75 countries in what it described as one of its most […]
[ad_1] The United States has announced an indefinite suspension of immigrant visa processing for citizens of 75 countries beginning January 21, 2026, in one of the most sweeping visa actions in recent years under the Trump administration. Regarding the freeze, there were questions that confused applicants, especially those from India, who wanted to know their […]
[ad_1] A viral video circulating on X made an explosive claim that a single immigration lawyer in Texas has approved hundreds of thousands of H-1B visas, which again angered MAGA base into calling for the suspension of the programme. The video focuses on Dallas-based attorney Chand Parvathaneni and alleges large-scale visa fraud tied to IT […]
[ad_1] LONDON: Two Indian-origin people have been caught in a sting operation in the UK selling British visas illegally for thousands of pounds and even offering them to migrants without any requirement to work.The Daily Mail said its undercover investigation found an Indian-origin female student in Britain selling work visas on Facebook Marketplace using forged […]
[ad_1] Australia has tightened checks for student visa applicants from India as it moved India into the ‘highest-risk’ category along with Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. The new categorization came into effect from January 8 2026, as these four South-Asian countries have been moved from Evidence Level 2 to Evidence Level 3 under the Simplified Student […]
[ad_1] Reports of several B1/B2 visa applications getting rejected surfaced on social media Friday, claiming that these rejections took place in the past few days. No explicit reasons were given for these rejections; the applicants claimed. This came at a time when the H-1B visa stamping has been delayed in India for months, ever since […]
