NEW DELHI: A memo issued on Monday by means of US President Donald J. Trump has ordered the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reduce overstays of business and vacationer visitors and of different non-immigrant visa holders.
A building which might hit Indians exhausting is the route by means of Trump to impose admission bonds as a way of bettering compliance with the terms and prerequisites of ‘non-immigrant visas’.
“The Presidential Memo refers to ‘all categories of non-immigrant visas, which is all encompassing. It would duvet visas given to students, staff and their dependants. Looks like admission bonds, shall be frequently used, one day,” Mitchell Wexler, California based partner at Fragomen, a global firm specialising in immigration rules, instructed TOI.
The memo does no longer comprise many specifics, nor does it impose any immediate restrictions, but it surely calls upon US companies to offer suggestions and/or status reviews to President Trump inside of 120 days.
As consistent with the Open Doors Report launched final November, there were 1.96 lakh Indian students in the US, constituting just about 18% of the full international students. The Entry-Exit Overstay Report (2018) issued by means of DHS presentations that almost 1.27 lakh Indian students had been anticipated to depart the US all over the fiscal 2017 (duration October 1, 2016 as much as September 30, 2017). Of which three.45% overstayed.
TOI, in its coverage of Trump’s fall schedule, in its version dated October 18, had covered a proposed schedule merchandise, that referred to as for keep in the US by means of international students to be for a specified duration (until a selected departure date), slightly than for all the period in their protecting a pupil status. This schedule merchandise was once geared toward curbing overstays in the US by means of international students.
The H-1B non-immigrant paintings visa is a popular visa for hiring technology staff from India. For the fiscal ended September 30, 2017, Indians had been allocated 67,815 H-1B visas for preliminary employment (or 63% of the full). H-1B extensions granted to Indians all over this period stood at 2.08 lakh or 81% of the aggregate determine.
“The nitty-gritty will need to be studied once the various companies issue insurance policies including creation of admission bonds,” says an immigration skilled hooked up to a technology company.
In 2013, UK had contemplated a safety bond of GBP three,000 for visa candidates from six nations, including India. After vociferous protests including from the Indian government, this plan was once dropped.
On any other front, the Presidential Memo calls upon the Secretary of State to interact with governments of countries with a complete overstay price greater than 10% in the mixed B-1 and B-2 visa class (those visas are granted to these travelling to US as vacationers or for industry). President Trump has requested for suggestions from US companies at the lines of suspension of visa issuance, limits on period, or requirement of extra paperwork. Here, Indians are not likely to be impacted. “Given the previous knowledge, India is not even close to the 10% threshold. Just 1.14% of its electorate overstayed their B-1 and B-2 status, as consistent with the DHS document,” issues out Wexler.
A building which might hit Indians exhausting is the route by means of Trump to impose admission bonds as a way of bettering compliance with the terms and prerequisites of ‘non-immigrant visas’.
“The Presidential Memo refers to ‘all categories of non-immigrant visas, which is all encompassing. It would duvet visas given to students, staff and their dependants. Looks like admission bonds, shall be frequently used, one day,” Mitchell Wexler, California based partner at Fragomen, a global firm specialising in immigration rules, instructed TOI.
The memo does no longer comprise many specifics, nor does it impose any immediate restrictions, but it surely calls upon US companies to offer suggestions and/or status reviews to President Trump inside of 120 days.
As consistent with the Open Doors Report launched final November, there were 1.96 lakh Indian students in the US, constituting just about 18% of the full international students. The Entry-Exit Overstay Report (2018) issued by means of DHS presentations that almost 1.27 lakh Indian students had been anticipated to depart the US all over the fiscal 2017 (duration October 1, 2016 as much as September 30, 2017). Of which three.45% overstayed.
TOI, in its coverage of Trump’s fall schedule, in its version dated October 18, had covered a proposed schedule merchandise, that referred to as for keep in the US by means of international students to be for a specified duration (until a selected departure date), slightly than for all the period in their protecting a pupil status. This schedule merchandise was once geared toward curbing overstays in the US by means of international students.
The H-1B non-immigrant paintings visa is a popular visa for hiring technology staff from India. For the fiscal ended September 30, 2017, Indians had been allocated 67,815 H-1B visas for preliminary employment (or 63% of the full). H-1B extensions granted to Indians all over this period stood at 2.08 lakh or 81% of the aggregate determine.
“The nitty-gritty will need to be studied once the various companies issue insurance policies including creation of admission bonds,” says an immigration skilled hooked up to a technology company.
In 2013, UK had contemplated a safety bond of GBP three,000 for visa candidates from six nations, including India. After vociferous protests including from the Indian government, this plan was once dropped.
On any other front, the Presidential Memo calls upon the Secretary of State to interact with governments of countries with a complete overstay price greater than 10% in the mixed B-1 and B-2 visa class (those visas are granted to these travelling to US as vacationers or for industry). President Trump has requested for suggestions from US companies at the lines of suspension of visa issuance, limits on period, or requirement of extra paperwork. Here, Indians are not likely to be impacted. “Given the previous knowledge, India is not even close to the 10% threshold. Just 1.14% of its electorate overstayed their B-1 and B-2 status, as consistent with the DHS document,” issues out Wexler.
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