Thapar currently holds the position of US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
India has no work visa similar to the H-1B, nor a reciprocal arrangement with the US. India does not provide employment authorisation to spouses of those who hold an Indian employment visa.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in concert with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday amended the foreign terrorist organisation designation of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba in order to include one of the terror group's front organisation and a charitable arm of it as part of the FTO designation too.
Venezuelan soccer official Rafael Esquivel has agreed to be extradited from Switzerland to face charges in the United States in an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption in the sport, the Swiss government said on Friday.
The Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Thursday said that the bodies of four people -- two adults, a teen and an infant -- were found on the Canadian side of the US-Canada border near Emerson.
Saanvi was kidnapped by unknown kidnappers in a Philadelphia township on Monday morning after they killed her grandmother Satyavathi Venna, 61.
Ram Varadarajan and California Cricket Academy have filed a lawsuit against United States of America Cricket Association,Inc(USACA) alleging history of electoral delays and manipulation at the USACA present board members.
In the wake of frequent shootout incidents that have resulted in several deaths in the recent past, the United States is looking into the possibility of issuing an executive order on gun control. "The President is going to act. There is executive action that can be taken. We have not decided what that is yet, but we are compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members," said Vice President Joe Biden.
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born controversial author who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing The Satanic Verses, was "still undergoing surgery", several hours after being stabbed by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident at an event in western New York State on Friday.
Eminent Indian-American attorney Preet Bharara has made it to the cover of the prestigious Time magazine for his crusade against Wall Street corruption and irregularities, including insider trading. With the caption This man is busting Wall Street, Bharar's picture appeared in the latest edition of Time on Thursday, the day on which he announced to have taken action against one of the oldest Swiss banks for having evaded American taxes and helping in the flight of US money.
Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has been accused of being an Inter Services Intelligence agent and funneling its money into the United States to influence American lawmakers on Kashmir, has admitted to taking money from Pakistan's spy agency. During his detention hearing at the US district court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, the prosecution said that Fai, the head of Kashmiri American Council, had admitted to receiving funds from the ISI.
One indictment accuses Huawei of trying to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile, and of promising bonuses to employees who collected confidential information on competitors. A second indictment claims the company worked to skirt US sanctions on Iran.
United States prosecutors on Tuesday defended a plea agreement with David Headley, co-accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, saying that this helped the Federal Bureau to extract invaluable information from him about Laskar-e-Tayiba and other terrorist outfits and their leaders in Pakistan.
Immigration attorneys claimed that they knew nothing about the varsity's illegal operation and were trapped.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has sought documents related to the escrow account of New York-based firm, an alleged front company of naval war room leak case accused Abhishek Verma, from a United States-based attorney who had run this account for several years.
During opening statements at Chicago's Dirksen Federal Building, Assistant US Attorney Sarah Streicker said that Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian, told Headley, an American of Pakistani origin, after the Mumbai carnage in which 166 persons were killed in November 2008 that the "Indians deserved it."
An Indian citizen, living "illegally" in the United States, has been found guilty by a US court of providing material support to Lebanese extremist group Hezbollah and faces a maximum sentence of 75 years in prison. Patrick Nayyar, 48, was convicted after a week-long jury trial before US District Judge Robert Sweet.
The uncle of United States President Barack Obama appeared in a Massachusetts district court on Thursday for a hearing on a drunken driving charge and was released on personal recognisance.
Striking a major blow to Donald Trump, a federal judge in Seattle brought his administration's executive order on immigration to a halt nationwide Friday, issuing a temporary restraining order in US District Court until further hearings can be held.
The animated image, which the president retweeted on Sunday, also shows Clinton tripping and falling after being hit in the back as she boards a plane in 2011 as the secretary of state, CNN reported.
Three months after she was arrested and charged with visa fraud before being freed on a bail bond, Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade's motion to dismiss the government's indictment on the ground of her diplomatic immunity was granted Wednesday by a Federal Judge in Manhattan.
United States immigration authorities have removed radio tags from the ankles of two Indian students from California-based Tri Valley University, which has been shut down on charges of massive visa fraud.
Attorneys for Indian guest workers who are suing Mississippi-based marine and fabrication company Signal International along with its co-conspirators and other entities for human trafficking and racketeering have filed for class certification to include hundreds of additional workers in the lawsuit. If class status is granted by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the lawsuit could be the largest human trafficking case in US history.
The president said he will be signing a number of executive orders over the next several days of the week.
Hundreds of Indian students face an uncertain future as a California 'university' faces immigration fraud charges.
He had posted numerous messages threatening to attack individuals and gatherings of people who he believed were opponents of his radical beliefs.
A controversial Indian-American physician in the United States has been arrested on fraud charges for prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to patients who were not pregnant.
Describing Rana as a flight risk, the US government opposed his release on bail, arguing that if he were to flee to Canada, he may escape the possibility of a death sentence in India.
'Indian-Americans for Trump 2016' -- which was registered as a political action committee on January 21 with the federal election commission -- aims at garnering support of Indian-Americans to have Donald J Trump become the next president of the United States.
A Pakistani national has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for conspiring to smuggle a member of Tehrik-e-Taliban, a designated terrorist outfit, into the United States. Irfan Ul Haq, 37, conspired with others to smuggle into the US an individual who was believed to be a member of a foreign terrorist organisation, said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A Breuer, after the sentencing was announced by a US district court.
Indian-Americans are taking over the country, United States President Joe Biden said on Thursday, referring to the high number of people from the community getting a place in his administration.
The 12-member jury of a federal court in Chicago on Wednesday began deliberations against Tahawwur Rana, charged with involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, planning of a similar strike in Denmark and providing material support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
Leaving the United States is the only solution left, felt Sheela Murthy of the Baltimore, Maryland-based Murthy Law Firm, for students of Tri-Valley University, who have been running from one university to another and from one attorney to another since federal authorities raided and shut down the college on January 19.
Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to the Congress on Wednesday that the administration had determined that the Defence of Marriage Act, which was passed by Congress in 1996, discriminated against gays and therefore could no longer be accepted as reasonable, the Guardian reports.
"Her son is not doing well," said her attorney Alinka Robinson, as a telephonic translator relayed the proceedings to Patel in her native tongue of Gujarati, the daily said in its report from Arizona.
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According to a media report, Trump's comments could create a predicament for him and his legal team.
The detention of actor Shahrukh Khan in the United States may have raised a storm in India, but the arrest Ravi Shankar, associate professor of English and poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University, has received little or no coverage in Indian media.Though it happened a month earlier in New York City, the arrest, detention and the actions of the court have raised many questions. Shankar is now consulting attorneys in the case for the legal steps.
A United States lawyer representing Tahawwur Hussain Rana, an accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, has said that the Pakistani-Canadian has been "betrayed" by his friend David Headley.
Wray is a litigation attorney with law firm King & Spalding in Washington and Atlanta.
