San Francisco, A US federal judge has stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the country’s southern border illegally. US District Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a temporary restraining order after hearing arguments on Monday night in San Francisco, NBC News reported. The request was[Read More…]
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Indians with US visas to get visa on arrival in UAE
Indian citizens who hold a valid US visa or a green card will get a two-week UAE visa on arrival in the country from May 1, according to multiple media reports. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs had circulated a letter to all authorities to grant Indians with US visa[Read More…]
Australia to abolish 457 visa programme popular with Indians
Australian government will abolish the 457 visa and replace it with two new visas, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. The visa programme has been used by over 95,000 temporary foreign workers, mostly Indians. “We are an immigration nation, but the fact remains: Australian workers must have priority for Australian jobs,[Read More…]
20 migrants drown off caost of Libya
100 migrants feared missing after boat sinks off Libyan coast
Nearly 100 migrants were feared missing after their boat sank off the Libyan coast near Tripoli on Thursday, a coastguard official said. 23 migrants were rescued from the craft off Gargaresh, a western suburb of Tripoli, Coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem said. According to survivors, the inflatable boat had set off[Read More…]
Multiple bomb blasts rock migrant camp in Nigeria
Multiple suicide bomb blasts tore apart an immigrant camp consisting of persons fled from Boko Haram camp in Nigeria on Wednesday. The incident took place in Nigeria’s restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, said reports. “There were four explosions inside the camp,” the coordinator of the Muna camp Tijjani Lumani told[Read More…]
Application for H-1B to be accepted from April 3
Trump favours merit-based system for immigrants
Donald Trump says he’s open to give undocumented immigrants citizenship
On late Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that the USA is open to immigration legislation and that it would also provide a legal status to some people living in the US illegally and provide a pathway to citizenship to those brought to the US illegally as children. On a conversation[Read More…]