Amid booming Sino-Indian trade, Indian missions in China have witnessed a growing tendency by some Chinese businesses to secure Indian visas by allegedly presenting fraudulent documents, including fake 'invitations' from leading Indian firms.
Asserting that there has been no change in its visa policy on Narendra Modi, the United States has said the BJP's prime ministerial candidate is welcome to apply for a visa and wait for a review like any other applicant.
'The policies announced by his administration are implemented faster.'
Divya Nair/Rediff.com speaks to students and experts to find out whether it is better to study management in India or try for an international MBA.
The problems stem from a hardware failure in a State Department.
Mr Jaspal Singh, managing director of Caan World Consultants, a reputed student visa consultancy in Jalandhar, sheds light on new UK student visa policies.
Ramaswamy's stance on H-1B visas is reminiscent of the 2016 Trump campaign, when then-candidate Donald Trump, who has also hired a number of foreign workers under H-1B visas for his businesses, took a hardline stance on these foreign workers before later softening his rhetoric.
Kishore Jena on Friday received his visa to travel to Hungary, paving the way for him to compete at the World Athletics Championships
The NCAA previously allowed transgender women to compete as long as they met testosterone limits on a sport-by-sport basis.
The Vatican officials had applied for visa in mid-December
The Central Bureau of Investigation had booked Shubham Shokeen and another former employee Aarti Mandal in the case on the basis of a complaint from the French embassy.
TCS is hiring from over a hundred engineering campuses, MBA graduates from top B-schools in the US
The United States' consular sections in India on Friday announced a hike in their service fees following recent depreciation in rupee value against the dollar.
Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney visited Delhi and Chandigarh recently to discuss the issue of crooked immigration consultants.
On Sunday, India airlifted a second batch of 323 stranded Indians and seven Maldivian citizens from coronavirus-hit Wuhan city, taking the total number of people evacuated to 654.
The US has announced that individuals travelling to the country on a business or tourist visa - B-1 and B-2 - can apply for new jobs and even appear in interviews, but the prospective employees must ensure that they have changed their visa status before starting a new role. B-1 and B-2 visas are generally referred to as "B visas", and they are the most common types of visa issued for a wide range of uses in the United States. The B-1 visa is issued mainly for short-term business trips, while the B-2 visa is issued mainly travelling for tourism purposes.
Angela Kerwin, a Foreign Service Officer currently serving as the non-immigrant visa chief at the US Consulate General in Mumbai, sheds light in student visas.
After Brazil and China, a recently launched pilot program to waive off interview for an American visa is gaining popularity in India as the US Government intends to target the country to increase tourist flow in the years to come.
Pakistan tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi on Saturday dropped plans to take part in the Chennai Open after he failed to get an Indian visa on time.
Gulshan Kumar, former Education Officer, Australian High Commission talks about the recent clamp down on student visas and why.
Officials said the Citizenship and Immigration Services would not issue daily update on number of applications received, but will make an announcement when the cap is reached.
It now appears that London wants to go ahead with 3000-bond surety.
NRAI said Indian government had given clearance for the applications, but that was before last Thursday's dastardly attack
Pankaj Malhotra, Immigration New Zealand's (New Delhi) former visa officer, on issues that affect Indian students heading to NZ.
India's second-largest information technology services provider, Infosys Technologies, has applied for a mere 405 visas till date for financial year 2009-10 - its lowest application count in recent years.
Muhammad Yunus urged the people to "exercise patience" before judging his government's role.
Despite winning the case in the Delhi High Court against the Wrestling Federation of India, Geetika Jakhar's Olympic dream is still hanging by a thread as she is yet to get her visa for Helsinki, Finland, where the last qualifying event for London Games is starting on Thursday.
US visa expert Dr Arun Vakil tips you off on the US visa application process for students.
Counsel for journalist Angad Singh told the court that they got to know about the "blacklisting" only after the Centre filed its response to his plea challenging the entry refusal.
Under the EB-5 Investment Visa programme, an applicant receives a conditional green card on making a minimum investment of $5,00,000 in the United States.
Legendary Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist believes Nepal and the Netherlands could surprise teams like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the upcoming T20 World Cup.
We look at the requirments and qualifications necessary for H-1B applicants: What work and educational experience do you need? What are the mandatory documents?
Kevin Woods, head, visa department, British Deputy High Commission, Chennai says original documents should be submitted where possible so that their authenticity can be checked.
Words of advice from Peter G Kaestner, US Consul General, New Delhi.
New Zealand Immigration Service, the authorised body for issuing visas for New Zealand, on Thursday opened visa collection centres in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Delhi.
The Bombay High Court has refused relief to a foreign national, who had challenged the denial of employment visa on the ground that it violated her fundamental rights.
Devyani Khobragade, deputy consul general at the Indian consulate in New York, was arrested on charges that she allegedly presented fraudulent documents to the United States State Department in support of a visa application for an Indian national employed as a babysitter and housekeeper at her home in Manhattan.
David Coleman Headley, the American Lashkar-e-Tayiba suspect in the Mumbai terror attack case, did not disclose his Pakistani-origin while seeking an Indian visa, raising no alarm bells at the Indian Consulate in Chicago. Headley, who was earlier called Dawood Gilani, gave 'Headley' as his last name at birth in his visa application and wrote his father's name as 'William Headley', according to reliable information.
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