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New US norms for Green Cards unlikely to impact Indians
NEW YORK: The new US regulations restricting those unable to support themselves financially from getting permanent residence status is unlikely to have a major...
Biographer: Statue poem embraces migrants from 'all places'
NOMAAN MERCHANT Long before a Trump administration official suggested the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty welcomed only people from Europe, the words captured...
Several held at Jew protest at Amazon Store
SAN FRANCISCO: Several protesters from Jewish community groups were arrested at an Amazon bookstore in Manhattan after they occupied the shop and protested Amazon...
New Mexico says public benefit immigrant rule may hurt kids
SANTA FE, New Mexico: New Mexico's human services secretary fears that children may be deprived of food assistance and other vital services under the...
Court in New Hampshire halts deportation of Haitian man
CONCORD, New Hampshire: A federal court judge in New Hampshire has ruled that a Haitian immigrant who claims he fled politically-motivated attacks in his...
Man arrested for providing fake work visas
NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly duping people on the pretext of providing work visas, police said on Sunday. Santosh Bhagwan Behera,...
Officials say 57 dead in Brazil prison riot: 16 decapitated: Officials
RIO DE JANEIRO: At least 57 prisoners have been killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in...
Indian asylum seekers, on hunger strike at Texas detention centre, forced to hydrate
HOUSTON: Three Indian men seeking asylum in the US have been forced to receive intravenous drips at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
US lawmakers concerned over spike in request for evidences for H1B visas
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers and experts have expressed concern over the US immigration agency's increasing demand for "irrelevant" or previously furnished information to adjudicate an...
US to send asylum seekers back to dangerous part of Mexico
HOUSTON: The US government July 19expanded its requirement that asylum seekers wait outside the country to a part of the Texas Rio Grande Valley...