L-1 visa ‘blanket’ petitions face further scrutiny after new form is introduced
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23:57 05/11/2016
Employers applying for L-1 visas to fill managerial and specialist knowledge job vacancies under ‘blanket’ approval are now required to complete a new, longer form that further probes the employment...
New York bombings raise further concerns over US immigrant screening
21:59 03/11/2016
Concerns over US immigrant screening continues to grow following a spate of terror attacks that hit the US in the space of 12 hours in September 2016. Attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota on...
Registration for US green card lottery opened October 4, 2016
11:02 03/11/2016
Applications for the 2018 Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery (DV-2018) started to be accepted from October 4, 2016, as announced by the US Department of State. This year people from Ecuador can apply...
US visa wait for more than 12,000 Afghans who helped US in War
23:45 21/10/2016
In June 2016, Workpermit.com reported how top US Army General, John Nicholson, urged US lawmakers to preserve the Afghan immigration visa programme for those Afghan civilians who aided the US-led...
India receives highest number of H-1B and L-1 visas despite USCIS Visa fee increases
15:28 16/10/2016
During the August 2016 visit to India, Michele Bond, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs revealed that despite a hike in USCIS H-1B and L-1 visa fees on December 19, 2015, Indian...
Discriminatory US H-1B and L-1 visa fee action concerns Nasscom Chief
14:18 13/10/2016
Despite shrugging of pre-election anti immigration remarks by Donald Trump and others concerning US work visas, the chief of India’s software trade lobby group the National Association of Software...
