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H-1B Visa: US President Donald Trump To Sign 'Hire American' Order Today The executive order will direct federal agencies to more strictly enforce H1-B visa laws and propose reforms to the programmed to prevent fraud and abuse and ensure visas are awarded to the most-skilled applicants Washington: US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday directing federal agencies to implement the "Buy American, Hire American" policy which calls for a review of the H-1B visa programmed - sought after by Indian IT companies and professionals - for skilled workers, senior officials said. Mr Trump will sign the executive order during a trip Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he will tour the headquarters of Snap-on-Tools, a high-end tools manufacturer, and deliver a speech about US manufacturing, CNN reported. The officials on Monday touted the executive order as a "historic step" that would help protect American manufacturers and American ...

Judge says Trump's language degraded 'sanctuary city' order Responding to the blocking of Mr Trump's recent sanctuary city executive order, the US Justice Department said in a statement it would follow existing federal law with respect to sanctuary jurisdictions, as well as enforce conditions tied to federal grantsFrom ending terrorism to unlocking the mysteries of space, here are some of the promises Donald Trump made in his inaugural address.Supporters of the sanctuary policy argue enlisting police cooperation in rounding up immigrants for removal undermines communities' trust in local police, particularly among Latinos.The Trump administration contends that local authorities endanger public safety when they decline to hand over for deportation illegal immigrants arrested for crimes.The executive order by Mr Trump, who made cracking down on illegal immigration a cornerstone of his 2016 presidential campaign, directed such funding to be restricted once the...

Donald Trump's immigration plans hit a wall as court blocks order to cut 'sanctuary city' funding A US judge has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration's efforts to toughen immigration enforcement.Sanctuary cities generally offer safe harbor to illegal immigrants and often do not use municipal funds or resources to advance the enforcement of federal immigration laws.The ruling from US District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco said Mr Trump's January 25 order targeted broad categories of federal funding for sanctuary governments and that plaintiffs challenging the order were likely to succeed in proving it unconstitutional.Dozens of local governments and cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, have joined the growing "sanctuary" movement.Meanwhile, the looming threat of a US Government shutdown this...

Judge blocks part of Trump's sanctuary cities executive order Washington (CNN) A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a threat to take away funds from sanctuary cities -- the latest blow from the federal judiciary to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda. In his ruling, Judge William H. Orrick sided with Santa Clara County, the city of San Francisco and other jurisdictions, who argued that a threat to take away federal funds from cities that do not cooperate with some federal immigration enforcement could be unconstitutional. In making the ruling apply nationwide, Orrick blocked the government from enforcing a key portion of Trump's January executive order on immigration, which ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department to block cities who do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement from receiving federal funds. Sessi...

 Visa rejection rate and the number of students being deported were the highest among Indians. Immigration New Zealand authorities meanwhile said that the visa rejection rate and the number of students being deported were the highest among Indians. (Representational image) Hyderabad:  Immigration New Zealand’s Mumbai area office has confirmed that eight Hyderabad-based consultants, who had been sending the most students to New Zealand, have been involved in the visa fraud that came to light recently. They are Kiwi Overseas Services, Sunrise Overseas Educational Consultants, IVY Overseas of SR Nagar, FIFO Overseas, Leaf Educational Services, AR Overseas Consultants of Dilsukhnagar, Storm Atlas and V & U Intellect Consultants. Immigration New Zealand authorities meanwhile said that the visa rejection rate and the number of students being deported were the highest among Indians. In turn, students from Hyderabad topped the list among Indians. Around ...

HC dismisses plea to quash FIR against immigration consultant PUNE: The   Bombay high court   (HC) has dismissed a writ plea seeking directions to   quash an   FIR   lodged against a   Canadian immigration consultant   and two of his employees for alleged cheating and criminal breach of trust. The FIR was lodged with the Bundgarden police in October 2013. The HC bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari and Prakash D Naik also vacated all interim reliefs that were granted against the suspects. New Sangvi resident Santosh Indore had lodged the FIR alleging that Satish Nandre, who heads Amey Worldwide International Services Private Limited, and his aides collected money to process immigration pleas to Canada in 2004 for himself, his wife and son. Indore alleged the promised immigration failed to come through even after a decade and the firm folded its operation in Pune without refunding the money. "I did get $1,250 cheque from the Citizenship and I...

Judge verbally attacked by Trump to hear DREAMer deportation case The head of Bethel Heights Vineyard looked out over the 100 acres of vines her crew of 20 Mexicans had just finished pruning, worried about what will happen if the Trump administration presses ahead with its crackdown on immigrants. From tending the plants to harvesting the grapes, it takes skill and a strong work ethic to produce the winery's pinot noir and chardonnay, and native-born Americans just aren't willing to work that hard, Patricia Dudley said as a cold rain drenched the vineyard in the hills of  Oregon . "Who's going to come out here and do this work when they deport them all?" she asked. President Donald Trump's hard line against immigrants in the U.S. illegally has sent a chill through the nation's agricultural industry, which fears a crackdown will deprive it of the labor it needs to plant, grow and pick the crops that feed the country. Fruit and vegetable grow...

New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English has called Australia's immigration changes "disappointing", saying they will force New Zealanders to wait longer for citizenship.   Mr English said there had been no formal contact between the Turnbull Government and himself or his ministers before Australia unveiled its immigration crackdown last week. Take the current citizenship test The Prime Minister says Australia's new citizenship test will be even more stringent than it already is. Try your luck with some of the questions in the current test. "The officials are going through a process of understanding exactly what the decision is. It was one that appeared on pretty short notice with very rapid application so we want to make sure that all the implications are understood," he said in New Zealand on Monday. "But on the face of it, it's disappointing that New Zealanders would have to wait longer." The changes require  New Zealanders and...

Many of the Indian immigrants waiting for green cards over a decade, welcome Trump’s H1B visa review order as merit-based work visas may increase their chance of green cards A file photo of Donald Trump. H1B visas are aimed at foreign nationals in occupations that generally require specialised knowledge, such as science, engineering or computer programming. Photo: Bloomberg San Francisco:  When Gokul Gunasekaran was offered a full scholarship for a graduate programme in electrical engineering at Stanford University, he saw it as the chance of a lifetime. He had grown up in Chennai, India, and had a solid job offer with a large oil company after getting his undergraduate degree. He came to America instead, got the Stanford degree and now works as an engineer at a data science startup in Silicon Valley. But for the past five years, he has been waiting for a green card that would give him full legal rights as a permanent resident. In the meantime, he is in a holding pattern...

The president has been frustrated on many fronts in his first hundred days, but on his watch, unauthorized border crossings have fallen sharply. Obamacare remains the law of the land. So does NAFTA. Tax reform exists only as pixels in a tweet. Infrastructure ain’t happening. Five months after the Republicans won united control of Congress and the presidency, it seems uncertain whether one-party Washington can avoid a government shutdown over a budget dispute. Yet as Day 100 of his presidency nears, President Donald Trump can take credit for one huge accomplishment, an accomplishment more central to his election campaign than any of the unfulfilled pledges above. Illegal immigration into the United States has slowed dramatically. The Department of Homeland Security  reports  that illegal crossings across the southern border plunged 40 percent in the first month of the Trump presidency, the steepest decline in illegal migration since the recession of 2009. Illegal immigr...