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.
Sukhi Chahal, a Silicon Valley-based IT entrepreneur and Sikh activist, has been in the headlines in India for his assertion that the ongoing farmers’ protest out of Punjab and elsewhere is vulnerable to being “hijacked” by remnants of the separatist Khalistani movement
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday discussed issues pertaining to the welfare of Pakistani diaspora in the United Arab Emirates with the ruler of Dubai
Human history is woven in stories of migration for work and livelihood
A Dubai-based Indian man stabbed a colleague 11 times in a fit of rage after his company failed to send him home, a media report said
Pakistan-born scientist Asifa Akhtar has been selected as a recipient for the Leibniz Prize for 2021, which is Germany's most important research funding award
It's a make or break moment for Indians stuck in decades-long lines for US permanent residency. Congressional negotiators are on the cusp of sealing a long-delayed COVID-19 relief package and within it could be tucked away a move to "shuffle the decks of the Titanic" in how 'green cards' - or permanent residency - are awarded to legal immigrants
Twelve years after she left Nepal, and after a dramatic rescue from the home of her abusive Saudi employer, Lilamaya Dhimal returned to a sunny Kathmandu airport on Wednesday morning to say: “I feel safe now, at least I know I will live.”
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States Ravinatha Aryasinha has called on Overseas Sri Lankans (OSLs) in the US to support economic promotion and strengthen advocacy of Sri Lanka
British Bangladeshi Mansoor Ahmad has been awarded the Mayor of Merton borough’s COVID-19 Award for his outstanding local contributions
Pakistan-born molecular biologist Asifa Akhtar has been chosen as one of the recipients of Germany's most important research award, Leibniz Prize
Pakistan-born Ali Zaidi is likely to be named White House's deputy Climate Change Coordinator under the Biden administration
An Indian-origin man has been killed in a freak accident involving heavy airport equipment in Chicago, according to news reports
NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) have selected three astronauts, including Indian-American Raja Chari, to serve as crew members for SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which is expected to launch in the autumn of 2021
Kamala Harris made history as the first Indian American and the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States when the electoral college affirmed her victory and that of Joe Biden as president in the bitterly fought election for the nation's leadership
British Labour parliamentarian Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who has been a vocal supporter of the protesting farmers in India, has slammed sections of the Indian media for spreading "misinformation'" in a bid to label protesting farmers as "separatists or terrorists"
