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The US has moved a step closer to revising wage rules for foreign workers after a proposed regulation affecting the H-1B visa and employment-based green card process cleared federal review – a development that could eventually push up minimum wage requirements for sponsored workers.The proposal was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…

KYIV: Former UK PM Boris Johnson called for boots on the ground in Ukraine, even as he slammed Europe for not showing enough urgency to put pressure on Russia to end the war. “Europe is only applying a tenth of the pressure that it can on Russia. Things need to go up a gear to…

A Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen, a PhD scholar of University of Toronto, Hamza Ahmad Khan, was reported missing on February 19 in Lahore where he had been staying with a friend since he went to Pakistan on February 13. Later, Pakistani media reports confirmed that Khan was arrested and also appeared in court for an initial…

Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (Image source: Wikipedia) Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is an American environmentalist and the former CEO of Patagonia, one of the most important outdoor clothing brands in the world. After working in business for many years, she quit her job as a business leader to focus on protecting the environment on a large scale….

Facing racial attack as an Indian in the US is nothing new but this time an Indian-origin CEO has been asked to ‘go to China’ and not India as Nitish Kannan criticized the ongoing narrative in the US to shut out everyone, including H-1Bs, O-1 visa holders. Kannan said while the US is fighting to…

An Indian-origin restaurateur in London has announced that he will close his establishment after 16 years, citing mounting challenges including rising costs, online harassment, repeated disturbances he attributes to Pakistani groups, and what he described as inadequate support from the Metropolitan Police. Harman Singh Kapoor, owner of Rangrez in Hammersmith, said on X that the…

A Redditor on an H-1B visa claimed that her passport was stamped ‘cancelled and withdrawn’ at Abu Dhabi preclearance as she was traveling back to the US in January, along with her husband. Explaining her case, she said that she traveled to India in November to celebrate her daughter’s first birthday and did not face…

Immigration attorney Sekou Clarke, in his latest video, broke down the five major changes for the Green Card holders in the US which are already in effect or coming into effect soon. Immigration is a crucial issue of the Donald Trump administration but it’s not only illegal immigrants who are under the watch of the…

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend deported a woman who was just shy of being nine months pregnant from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, US Congressman Joaquin Castro confirmed Monday.The woman, Juana, whose last name was withheld due to privacy concerns, was held at Dilley for three months with…

Jay Bhattacharya now sits at the apex of American public health. As director of the National Institutes of Health, he already oversees the country’s biomedical research agenda. Now, as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he temporarily controls the nation’s disease surveillance and response machinery as well. The unusual consolidation of…