The policy could have particularly significant consequences for employment-based Green Card applicants, many of whom have traditionally relied on adjustment of status (AOS) while continuing to live and work legally in the U.S. There is a large number of Indian immigrants who stand to face significant disruption and delay because of this policy shift.
It is not just Indian professionals, but this bill could result in a further drop in Indian students - the largest foreign student cohort in the US - showing interest in higher studies in the US. It is not just the H-1B visa by itself, but the proposal for ending the OPT which prospective students would be paying attention to. OPT helps students in drawing employment, gaining experience and potentially transferring to H-1B Visa status. In 2024-2025, over 140,000 Indian students were participating in the OPT program.
Le-Huu calls the Red EP “a bright exemplar of world fusion music… -- a folk duo blending South Asian and American traditions” layering “original Urdu, Hindi, and English lyrics over classical Indian ragas and beats borrowed from rock, reggae, and American roots music.”
In the end, the need to remember our war dead transcends borders, alliances, and eras. These disturbed graves — British, Australian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi in origin — call us to a solemn duty: To honour all who fell with dignity. Forgetting them, or allowing their memory to be selectively bulldozed, diminishes us all.
AAPI, the professional body representing over 80,000 Indian American doctors, has urged the federal, state and local governments to make all the efforts possible to prevent violence against Asian Americans and all those innocent people around the nation who continue to suffer due to violence, harassment and discrimination
An Indian-American man from Canton, Michigan, pleaded guilty April 7, 2021, to one count of sexual exploitation of children, announced Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Saima Mohsin
The British Gurkha Satyagraha United Struggle Committee UK-Nepal has warned that it will be compelled to take various diplomatic and legal actions if the demands put forth by the British Gurkhas continue to be ignored
Thousands of undocumented, and unregistered Nepalis, living in Omar, are getting a chance to leave the Gulf country without facing any punishment, reported the Kathmandu Post
The Bangladesh government has so far disbursed around $16.5 million to returnee migrant workers as part of the $82 million rehabilitation package, reported the Daily Star
US President Joe Biden has appointed a Pakistani American, Zahid N. Quraishi, to be a federal judge. He would become the nation's first Muslim federal judge if confirmed by the Senate
The family of a Pakistani immigrant, who was killed in a carjacking incident in the US last week, raised around $800,000 in the US, reported Dawn. The family, however, had just sought $100,000
“The (India) government continued taking steps to restore normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir by gradually lifting some security and communications restrictions,” according to the State Department's annual human rights report
Filmed in Tamil Nadu in 2019, ‘Pearl in the Blood’ is a feature film produced, directed, and written by Ken Kandiah from Canada and is based on true events of the Sri Lankan civil war of 2009 depicting a lethal society of numerous rapes, crimes, and killings
London Eye, the world’s largest cantilever observation wheel centrally located in the heart of London, was lit up in red and green on Friday, marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence
US President Joe Biden has nominated yet another Indian American, Seema Nanda, a former CEO of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to be the Department of Labour solicitor, the White House announced on Friday.
US President Joe Biden has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join him for the World Leaders Summit on Climate that he is virtually convening on April 22 and 23
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist and Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) of France members recently hosted a poster exhibition at Eiffel Tower square to showcase the Pakistan Army-led genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, media reports said
US President Joe Biden wants Congress to act on immigration reform that would allow Indian doctors and other South Asian professionals to expeditiously get their green cards, according to his spokesperson Jen Psaki
Nepal’s embassy in the United States issued a statement expressing ‘concern’ against rising attacks on people of Asian origin in the US, The Himalayan Times reported
