New York bombing suspect charged with supporting terrorism

New York police on Tuesday charged an Islamic State-inspired Bangladeshi-origin man with supporting terrorism, a day after he triggered a blast with a crude homemade device at a metro station that......

Trump vows to terminate green card lottery after NY attack

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed that he will terminate the popular green card lottery after an Islamic State-inspired Uzbek man who entered the US under the programme......

Obama rejects Republican immigration reform bill

United States President Barack Obama, who pledged that enacting comprehensive immigration reform would be a priority in his second term, has rejected a Republican-sponsored immigration bill that......

Indians to miss out on US visa lottery

The state department has launched the 2006 Diversity Visa Lottery, a programme by which 50,000 permanent resident visas are issued annually to individuals from countries with low levels of......

RAISE Act proposes to halve immigrant count in US

Two top US senators have proposed a legislation to cut the number of legal immigrants to America by half within a decade, a move that could adversely hit those aspiring to get a green card or......

15 million people apply for US green card lottery

A record 15 million people around the world this year entered America's green-card lottery, an immigration scheme offering a quick path to legal and permanent United States residency for 50,000......

A dummy's guide to immigration to the US

The Indian Merchants' Chamber and Cyrus Nallaseth's US immigration consultancy firm organised a seminar in Mumbai recently on the rules governing issuance of visas to foreigners by the United......