Haneef is charged with "recklessly" supporting a terrorist organisation with the Australian Federal Police alleging he supported foiled plans to detonate truck bombs in Britain.
Delhi cops claimed to have busted a 'Kabootar Baazi' (human trafficking) racket of providing fake supportive documents to obtain US visa in lieu of Rs 10 lakh from each passenger
In a development that could ease up immigration rules, the top court in the US has ruled that foreigners, who overstay their visas, can continue to remain in the country to seek legal status. The federal government had earlier taken a position that intending immigrants, who left the US, would no longer be eligible for a 'green card' and if they stayed in the US longer than authorised, they would be disqualified.
The latest flap over Mehta comes at a time when things are improving in the context of visa rejections for foreign academics in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
Two influential US Senators have renewed the campaign against the biggest users of H-1B visa workers in the US, including Indian heavyweights Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and Tata Consultancy Services. They fired off a missive to these companies asking how they employed professional and skilled workers, majority of whom hail from India.
Britain and China have clashed over the offer of British National Overseas passports to Hong Kong residents, observes Rup Narayan Das.
In a statement, US Customs and Immigration Services announced that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year 2011.
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade's father Uttam Khobragade today said here that re-indictment of his daughter clearly showed that the prosecutor had "no respect" for their own law.
However, they have to deposit a bank guarantee of 5,000 dirhams ($136) for each family member with the Department of Naturalisation and Residency, a Khaleej Times report said quoting official sources.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that it has received sufficient number of applications to reach the mandated cap of 65,000 for working professionals for the fiscal ending September 30, 2010.
rediffGURU Sushil Sukhwani offers expert advice on about pursuing higher education abroad.
US' IT industry wants a cap on H!B visas.
They all spoke of their disappointment at the decisions, given the historic moment of it being held in the Middle East.
The ruling came following an argument in an amicus brief by American Immigration Council.
The US has announced that the cap on employment-based immigrant visas for 2007 has been reached and no new applications will be entertained till October.
A US federal judge in Houston has declared illegal a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, including hundreds of Indians, brought to the US as children, but noted that the government can continue to process renewals of its current recipients.
In an order, the Home Ministry nullified a Labour Ministry circular which allows one per cent foreigners among the total work force in any project with a minimum of five and maximum of 20 people.
The third phase of stricter rules for foreign students under the tier4 of the points-based system will come into force from today. According to the UK Border Agency, foreign students need to prove that they have unconditional offer of a seat at a licensed college, university or school under the new visa requirements introduced from March this year.
PM Modi had in the past rejected requests from some ministers for appointment of secretaries who were considered close to them.
New procedures have been introduced from Monday to encourage Indian and Nepalese students to apply electronically for Australian student visas through education agents.
Nearly three months after the US immigration agency started accepting petitions for the H-1B visas for highly-skilled foreign professionals, it is still looking for more than 20,000 applications to fill the Congressionally-mandated cap of 65,000.
Starting March eight this year, US passport application fees will be costlier by $12 and a person applying for L-1 visa will have to pay an additional $500 fee.
This is not a new rule, but very few people know about it.
Travelers from 6 countries will require a close family connections or business ties in order to enter the US.
Industry says though most pending issues have been deliberated upon by Tourism ministry, they are yet to be implemented
"We have decided to extend electronic tourist visas to Chinese nationals," Modi said addressing students at the Tsinghua University in Beijing.
In addition, for those applying for certain L-1A and L-1B must submit an additional $4,500.
All advanced degree petitions not selected then became part of the random selection process for the 65,000 limit.
In a day of dramatic developments, the Indian diplomat is indicted on two charges, but she will leave the US. 'I will come out of this vindicated,' Dr Khobragade tells Rediff.com.
The status holders will also be allowed to purchase one residential property for dwelling purpose. The spouse/dependents will be allowed to take up employment in the private sector (in relaxation of salary stipulations for Employment Visa) and undertake studies in India.
Indian IT workers accounted for nearly 90 per cent of visas issued under the intra-company transfer route
Richard Sherman, Deputy Consul General, New Delhi, has advice you can use.
'We are only talking about 65,000 H1B visas a year, it is not going to go down drastically.' 'If the number reduces and when you spread that reduction across all the top IT services companies, the impact will be marginal.'
India and Pakistan to renew football rivalry after five years, clubbed in same group in next month's SAFF Cup
Trump said he is very close to a deal on DACA.
From June 16, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting Premium Processing Service requests for Forms I-140 (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker) filed on behalf of the alien workers whose six-month stay allowed under H1-B visa will expire within 60 days.
Senior management of companies use this visa for working in the US.
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