21 articles
A proposed rule would remove the instruction that immigration officers defer to a worker's last approval when reviewing an H-1B extension. Indian-born workers held 72 percent of approved H-1B petitions in fiscal 2023.
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One NRI said three years in Paris made her 'more Indian than ever' — and the internet pushed back. Inside the diaspora's oldest identity argument.
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Bo French's 'foreigners displacing Americans' post targeted South Asian UT students. Why the bipartisan Texas backlash cuts deeper than one tweet.
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India graduates 1.5 million engineers a year; America can't hire enough AI talent. Neither has a corridor strategy — and the cost runs into trillions.
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In recent weeks, multiple deportation flights have returned undocumented Indian immigrants, primarily from Punjab, to Amritsar. These individuals, having…
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Indian Americans are among the highest-earning groups in the US. An essay on the journey from railroad workers and the 1917 immigration ban to today's
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Seventeen years in the U.S. and still learning: hello waves from strangers, grocery-shelf manners, gym small talk, and words that don't translate.
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Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.
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Nurse Maria Sevilla's visa was refused because of her autistic son Tyrone's healthcare costs — and her Change.org petition gathered 123,000+ signatures.
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Immigration officer Chris Holmes quit his Border Force job by piping his resignation letter onto a cake — 18 eggs of pure career change.
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Couples are wedding across continents over video chat. A 2013 NYT report traced the rise of proxy marriages — and the fraud and trafficking concerns.
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Stuck in the H1B green-card backlog? The EB-5 investor visa offered permanent residence for a $500,000 investment creating ten American jobs.
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In 2012, Indian-Americans backed Obama by lopsided margins — up to 84% in exit polls. Immigration policy, more than economics, explains why.
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After the Oak Creek gurudwara shooting, a look back: early Punjabi immigrants in California built lives under prejudice — and married across cultures.
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Pew's June 2012 report The Rise of Asian Americans: in 2011, 36% of new US immigrants came from Asia versus 31% from Latin America — a historic shift.
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Immigration fraud investigators have a secret weapon: the mundane. Where are the takeaway menus, who wrote the rent cheque — the simple questions that trip
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In May 2012 Chipotle disclosed an SEC subpoena probing its hiring practices, employee work-authorization compliance, and the public statements it had made.
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In 2012 China tightened visa enforcement for foreigners — and Americans in Beijing found renewals, paperwork, and work rules suddenly much harder.
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Fidel Merlos-Lopez was refused at the border on his way to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen killed in a Pennsylvania house fire.
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A reported $1.4 million bill for one undocumented patient's care reopened debate over emergency treatment, uncompensated care, and 'medical deportations.'
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Theresa May’s March 2011 student visa overhaul hit Indian students hardest: stricter English and money rules, curbs on post-study work, and a crackdown on
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