Haitians see history of racist policies in migrant treatment
World | September 24, 2021 13:44 ISTNicole Phillips, legal director for the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said racism has long driven the American government’s treatment of Haitian immigrants.
Nicole Phillips, legal director for the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said racism has long driven the American government’s treatment of Haitian immigrants.
Prez Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the strategy of containing migrants in south was untenable on its own and more investment is needed in the region to keep Central Americans from leaving their homes.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
Indian doctors held a demonstration outside Congress last week demanding the removal of the country quotas to expedite their green cards,
Joe Biden has revoked a policy issued by his predecessor during the COVID-19 pandemic that blocked many Green Card applicants from entering the US.
US IT sector and business groups, including technology giants Google and Apple, have applauded President Joe Biden's steps to initiate immigration reforms, underlining that the move would boost the American economy, create jobs, and attract talent from across the world.
The 15 executive actions, and two directives, amount to an attempt to rewind the last four years of federal policies with striking speed. Only two recent presidents signed executive actions on their first day in office — and each signed just one.
According to the incoming White House official, the bill reforms the family-based immigration system by recapturing unused visas to clear the backlog, eliminating the lengthy waits, and it increases their per country visa caps.
Joe Biden offered a slower timeline than he promised on the campaign trail and one that may rile advocates pushing for speedy action on the issue
“Biden’s immigration policies will create another border crisis that will undermine the rule of law, hurt American workers, and insult the legal immigrants who did the right thing,” Indian-American Haley said in a series of tweets.
Nepal's Department of Immigration on Monday announced a halt in visa and other permit-related services for an indefinite time after one of its staffers tested positive for COVID-19.
The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The White House has said that President Donald Trump is working on an executive order to establish a merit-based immigration system that will include a "road to citizenship" for the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme.
The Trump administration has modified immigration policy for foreign students studying in the United States amid COVID-19 pandemic. As per new visa policy, foreign students studying in the country will have to leave US or transfer to another college if their universities offer only online courses.
According to the latest reports, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be seen playing the role of a jovial Punjabi guy in Rajkumar Hirani's next film which is a social comedy about immigration. The film will be shot in Punjab and Canada. Reports suggest that the superstar will begin the shoot of the film from October.
Trump had earlier this week issued a proclamation to suspend issuing of H-1B visas, popular among Indian IT professionals, along with other foreign work visas for the rest of the year.
The Donald Trump administration has suspended H1-B visa along with foreign work visas to United States for the rest of the year. Donald Trump issued a proclamation to suspend issuing of H-1B visas in a move to what he called "moving towards a merit-based immigration system."
More than 70% of H1-B or work visas tend to go to Indians either hired by American companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft or Indian companies with US operations such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro.
President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he had signed an executive order “temporarily suspending immigration into the United States.” But experts say the order will merely delay the issuance of green cards for a minority of immigrants.
US President Donald Trump has said that his immigration ban will be for only 60 days and indicated that workers on temporary visas like H1-B for professionals could continue to come in.
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