Two human smugglers, including one from India, were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison in Minnesota for their role in an international human smuggling operation that resulted in the death of a family of four from Gujarat’s Dingucha village. The four, including two children, died in January 2022 while attempting to cross the…
A new bill by the Trump regime has got Indian professionals working in the US worried. The proposed legislation doesn’t have to do with visa cancellation or deportation, but remittances. A bill introduced last week in the US suggests a 5% tax on remittances sent from the US to foreign countries by non-Americans. Experts suggest…
As the Trump administration acts to plug the holes that allowed illegal immigrants to stay back in the US, more cases of armed robberies staged to obtain U-visas are coming forward. A New York-based Indian national, Rambhal Patel, has pleaded guilty to staging armed robberies at retail stores across the US to help illegal immigrants…
A probe by the Fairfield County Police in Connecticut revealed that an armed robbery had, in fact, been staged by a shop owner to help his clerk, an illegal immigrant from India, stay back in the US. The shop owner, Birenkumar Patel, planned to exploit the U-Visa programme, which offers deportation relief to victims of…
A campaign for the H-1B Domestic Visa Renewal Programme intensified with seven US Congressmen, including three Indian-origin lawmakers, joining the fight for the expansion and formalisation of this pilot programme. The pilot programme was launched in 2024, allowing H-1B visa holders to renew their visas without leaving the US, impacting hundreds of thousands of Indians…
Over a month after a district court judge in the US blocked the deportation of Indian researcher Badar Khan Suri, the Donald Trump administration urged a federal judge to move the Indian national’s lawsuit challenging his deportation from Virginia to Texas. Suri was taken into custody by federal agents outside his house in Virginia on…
Mahendra Patel, a man of Indian origin, has been languishing in an American jail for over a month now. Patel, the 56-year-old, was accused of a crime that surveillance footage suggests never happened. Caroline Miller, the 26-year-old woman, accused Patel of trying to abduct her two-year-old toddler son at Walmart in the US’s Georgia on…