Senate confirms Nisha Desai as US asst secretary of state

The US Senate has confirmed Indian-American woman administrator Nisha Desai Biswal as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, making her the first person from the community to......

'Preserve family reunification immigration provisions'

Perturbed by inside information that the United States senate’s bipartisan ‘Gang of Eight’ who have introduced comprehensive immigration reform --that is strongly backed by......

Doctors discuss healers' hurdles at AAPI conference

J-1 visa, Green Card backlog issues permeate AAPI conference. Aziz Haniffa reports Senators and representatives from both sides of the aisle were on hand at a legislative conference on Capitol Hill......

Headley arrest shows spread of global terror

David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan born Lashkar-e-tayiba operative held for planning a terror strike in India changed his name from Daood Gilani to allay suspicion when he was traveling abroad,......

Indians in US seek speedy green card approvals

Five years after the largely attended rally in Washington, DC, tech people associated with 'Immigration Voice' are scheduled to gather in the heart of Silicon Valley on September 8 to voice their......

Demand for more H-1B visas rises

As the US engages in a heated debate over how to overhaul its immigration policies, a top Google executive made the case before Congress to open the doors to more high-skilled foreign workers and......