The Delhi Government has decided to implement the revised rates of minimum wages for unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled categories in all scheduled employments, Labour Minister A.K. Walia said on Monday. The new rates, which have been worked out after adjustment of dearness allowances, have come into effect from April 1, 2013 and will extend to [...] Read more »
Kuwait mulls tough new rules for work visas
Kuwaiti work visas may soon have to be vetted by five separate government departments as part of a plan to reduce the number of foreign workers and fake visas, local media reported. A government minister last week announced Kuwait would reduce the number of expats in the country by at least 1m by culling 100,000 [...] Read more »
Job Market Stuck in First Gear
The big drop in the unemployment rate (and accompanying skepticism) dominated the headlines, but the real story of Friday’s jobs report may have been the revisions to payroll figures from July and August. What had at one point looked like a summer slowdown in hiring now looks to have been a continuation of the slow, [...] Read more »
Criteria required for an immigrant to interview in United States for green card
Want to interview for your green card here? Almost everyone does, but not everyone can. Whether an immigrant visa applicant can interview here (the process called “adjustment of status,”) is one of the most common questions from callers at the CUNY/Daily News Citizenship NOW! Call-in. Below is an overview of the rules. If you still [...] Read more »
Indian Immigrants Important in Driving Economical Growth of U.S.
Bangalore: Various Indian entrepreneurs, especially Gujaratis, are improving the American economy, according to a National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) Survey, 2011. The NFAP Policy was based on Immigrant Founders and Key Personnel in America’s Top 50 Venture-Funded Companies. According to TOI, 46 percent of the 23 companies, which fall in the category of Top [...] Read more »
International Student Enrollments Increase at U.S Business Schools
There has been an increase in the number of foreign students coming to the U.S. for MBA programs despite the economic downturn. According to Christine Sneva, director of admissions and financial aid at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, international enrollments increased by 12 percent from the previous school year. “I don’t [...] Read more »
Student visa program to be investigated for abuses
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered a review of the J-1 Summer Work Travel visa program for foreign students after reports of poor working conditions and involvement in the sex industry. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an “extensive and thorough review” of a foreign exchange program that has been used [...] Read more »
Study on Children of U.S. Immigrant Entrepreneurs
The Immigrant Learning Center (ILC) has recently released a report examining diverse issues related to immigrant entrepreneurship whose parents had their own businesses, which were usually small and local. The study focused on the children of U.S. immigrant entrepreneurs, specifically Asian American and Latino graduate and professional students. They all grew up in households in the U.S. [...] Read more »
Easing of visa rules on Indians, Chinese urged
The country should relax the visa requirements for visiting Chinese and Indian nationals to boost tourism in the country, Manila Representative Amado Bagatsing said. Bagatsing said requiring Chinese and Indian tourists to apply for visas to visit the country was a major roadblock in the Aquino administration’s goal of generating six million tourist arrivals by [...] Read more »
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