The State Department has announced that no further EB-2 immigrant visa numbers will be authorized this fiscal year for applicants with priority dates of August 15, 2007 or later, effective March 23, 2012. However, foreign nationals with priority dates earlier than May 1, 2010 can still file adjustment applications with ...

Business owners have criticized the British government's scrapping of a visa scheme that allows international students to work for two years in the United Kingdom after graduation, saying that it restricts them from filling vacancies that require niche skills. The post-study work visa ended on Friday, after which non-European Union graduates ...

Under a new Department of State rule, foreign nationals can be issued L-1 visas valid for up to five years, depending on the maximum period allowed for their country of citizenship – even if that period is longer than their underlying USCIS petition approval. Previously, L visas were limited to ...

In view of reforming the immigration rules, the United States have proposed several tones of changes which will show its impact on F-1 and H1B visas in order to attract more foreign skilled people working for the nation, with the recent changes the professionals from countries like India, China and ...

WASHINGTON / BEIJING - The United States is expected to simplify and quicken the process of visa applications for Chinese travelers, US President Barack Obama announced recently as part of an initiative to boost tourism. "Every year, tens of millions of tourists from all over the world come and visit America. ...

Washington - Human Rights Watch on Sunday took to task the United States for a legal system that saw more prisoners than in any other country and for its immigration policies that led to hundreds of thousands of detentions. In its annual report evaluating human rights worldwide, the group noted that ...