NONCITIZENS

DHS updates the International Entrepreneur Rule: foreign entrepreneurs can stay up to five years if their start-ups meet job creation and funding benchmarks, and demonstrate public benefit. An initial 2½-year parole can extend with $264,147 investme...

The United States has postponed the next phase of H-1B visa system changes to December 2024. The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to introduce various significant regulations to modernize the program and enhance security measures.

The US Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn the Chevron precedent has significant implications for immigration laws, particularly affecting the Indian diaspora. The ruling may impact H-1B visa holders and their employers, while also raising q...

With variants KP.2, KP.3, and LB.1 surging, the CDC advises isolation if symptomatic, testing kits, masks, and medications for July 4 travelers. Vicki Sowards suggests Paxlovid for high-risk groups. U.S. citizens no longer need vaccine proof/tests. ...

Wealthy Indians can use GIFT City to avoid US inheritance tax on offshore investments. IFSCA is seeking tax parity for funds in GIFT City to attract HNI investors.

Biden administration introduces program for immigrant spouses of US citizens to receive deportation protection, work permits, and pathway to citizenship, aiming to reduce family separations under current immigration laws.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urges Biden administration to protect over 250,000 Documented Dreamers, including many Indians, facing self-deportation after aging out of temporary legal status. Lawmakers push for protection through America's CHILDR...

House Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on noncitizen voting, claiming it undermines election integrity. They aim to roll back D.C. law allowing noncitizens to vote locally, require proof of citizenship to register, and remove noncit...

Convenor of PVM Upamanyu Hazarika said that for a State, which is on its way to becoming a Bangladeshi origin majority State between 2040 to 2051 (three studies), NRC represented the last hope of the indigenous people, sifting citizen from non-citiz...

Trump has already made unfounded statements on this topic, such as in 2016 when he created a committee to look into the matter after blaming immigration voting for his defeat in the popular vote. It was dissolved before there was a single instance o...

USCIS extended certain EADs to 540 days, benefiting immigrants and ensuring employment continuity during USCIS decisions. The move supports the Biden Administration's efforts to integrate work-authorized individuals into the labor force, with a focu...

Union Minister Santanu Thakur, contesting re-election from the Bongaon Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal, urged members of the Matua community to apply for citizenship under the CAA, even if they possess voting rights. Speaking at a meeting in his const...

The pandemic led to work flexibility, impacting NRIs with significant tax implications. The article discusses tax laws, DTAA, Act exemptions, TRC requirements, foreign assets reporting, and employer tax implications for NRIs opting for remote work.

Four individuals, including three Indian nationals, were arrested in Upstate New York after they illegally jumped off a moving freight train from Canada to enter the US. US Border Patrol agents nabbed them on March 12, finding that they were undocum...

Opponents have vowed to challenge the new law. Unless a judge halts its implementation, New York City is now the most populous city in the United States to grant voting rights to noncitizens.

More than a dozen communities across the U.S. already allow noncitizens to cast ballots in local elections, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont.

The emergence of the new Omicron variant forced officials to delay the reopening of international travel by two weeks after health officials sought a pause to get more information about the strain, which appears to show milder symptoms than other co...

The Kuwait cabinet, in a statement, said first-degree relatives, such as parents and children, and accompanying domestic workers would be exempt from the entry ban, and that all those arriving in the country would have to quarantine.

Preparation of a NRC was a necessary exercise for any sovereign country for mere identification of citizens from non-citizens, it contended, without referring to the National Population Register (NPR) exercise, which gets underway next month, or the...