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25 Apr

India Suspends Tourist Visas For Chinese Citizens As Payback

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India has suspended tourist visas issued to Chinese nationals, global airways physique International Air Transport Association (IATA) has advised its member carriers.The pass appeared to be a response to Beijing stonewalling India’s appeals about approximately 22,000 Indian college students enrolled in Chinese universities who are unable to go lower back for physical classes. The neighbouring united states of america has till date refused to let them enter. These college students had to leave their studies in China and come to India when the COVID-19 pandemic commenced in the commencing of 2020. In a round issued on April 20 concerning India,…

07 Apr

Bangladesh visa centre opens in Siliguri

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A center for Bangladesh visa is now in Siliguri. It was inaugurated on Wednesday, for the people of North Bengal who have been demanding such facilities for a long time. The center is located at International Market on Sevoke Road near Panitanki Junction in the city and will be operated by Du Digital BD Pvt Ltd, a Kolkata-based company. "It is the sole outsourced agency of the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata to accept Bangladeshi visa applications from Indians and other foreign nationals," a source said. Those seeking visas for travel to Bangladesh can apply at a Sonali Bank…

15 Jul

Donald Trump says he will soon approve new merit-based immigration act

editor0 CommentsNorth EastIMMIGRATION, USA, VISA

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will soon sign a merit-based immigration act that will also take care of the immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and protected under the DACA programme. "We are going to be signing an immigration act very soon. It is going to be based on merit, it is going to be very strong," Trump told reporters at a Rose Garden press conference at the White House. "We are going to work on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) because we want to make people happy and I will tell you even conservative Republicans want to…

24 Jun

Why Trump’s H-1B visa freeze will hurt India most

editor0 CommentsNorth EastUSA, VISA

Illegal immigration has long been the subject of fervid debate in the US. Now President Donald Trump is making "legal immigration a scapegoat" with an eye on the upcoming election, says Poorvi Chotani, a managing partner at Law Quest, an immigration law firm with offices in the US and India. "How can the US recover more than 17 million lost jobs due to the pandemic by keeping out a little more than half a million foreign workers for the rest of the year?" she told me. Ms Chotani is mainly alluding to the H-1B visa programme that currently admits 85,000 immigrants each…