New Delhi: Indian students who wish to work after their studies in the UK will now need to apply for a job with a licensed Tire 2 sponsor, the government said on Wednesday. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Human resource Development D Purandeswari said the Post-Study Work visa, which earlier allowed students to work in the UK for two years after they completed their...
12:17 AM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: India and Pakistan are likely to sign a "liberalised visa agreement" when home secretaries of the two countries meet in Islamabad in May, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said on Wednesday. Krishna was speaking in the Lok Sabha on the April 8 daylong visit of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to India during which he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over lunch. "The two leaders (Manmohan Singh...
02:00 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Washington: The US has said that there is no change in its policy towards issuing visas to Indian students. "I don't think we've changed our policy with regard to the way we interview applicants," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at her daily news conference. "I think what we are doing is making sure that the sponsoring organisations truly are what they say they are in the United States;...
10:49 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New York: A 28-year old Indian, identified as a native of Visakhapatnam, was found dead in his apartment in Dallas by police authorities, according to information with an Indian-American organisation. Nikhil Karanam was found dead in his apartment on April 21 in Trophy Club City, a suburb of Dallas, according to Telugu Association of North America. Local police authorities say they believe Karanam had died almost 10 days ago but...
11:04 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Amritsar: Pakistan s human and civil rights activist Ansar Burney on Monday asked the Central government to grant him visa to visit Kashmir for interacting with people in an effort to establish peace in the Valley. He wanted to meet people to convince them that nothing could be achieved through violence, Burney said. The Kashmir problem was being encashed by politicians in both countries to derive political mileage, he said....
02:48 AM, Apr 24, 2012
London: The United Kingdom may reconsider the cancellation of post-study visas for Indian students. It has just been a fortnight since the UK cancelled post-study visas. Senior British ministers are reported to have given out an assurance that they will consider post-study work for Indian students. The post-study work route, which was closed from April 6 is most likely to be made more flexible for Indian students. There was sharp...
04:33 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Washington: India's IT giant Infosys brought in Indian workers illegally to US and often abused business visa rules requiring foreign workers to be paid US market rate, a former company insider has alleged. Infosys could just have easily found local IT specialists to do what they were bringing foreigners in to do, at a fraction of the cost, Jay Palmer, a consultant for the firm was quoted as saying by...
12:29 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: To boost bilateral trade, India and Pakistan will finalise a new visa agreement which will make it easier for certified businessmen from both sides to get one-year multiple-entry non-reporting visas, Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik said on Monday. Malik said this decision was taken at the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari. "When Pakistan President had met the Indian PM, I...
01:38 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Bangalore: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said he will seek details of the British Government's decision to close from Friday a facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses were over as part of drive to cut migration. "I am seeing media reports. I have asked the High Commissioner to brief me on this," Krishna told reporters. Under the Tier 1 (Post-study...
01:37 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Bangalore: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said he would seek details of the British Government's decision to close from Friday a facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses were over as part of drive to cut migration. "I am seeing media reports. I have asked the High Commissioner to brief me on this",Krishna told reporters in Bangalore. Under the Tier 1...
05:51 PM, Apr 06, 2012
London: A facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses are over will be closed from Friday as part of the Cameron governments drive to cut migration, which may put-off those aspiring to study in the UK. Under the Tier 1 (Post-study work) route, Indian and other non-EU students were able to take up work for two years here after the completion...
07:04 AM, Apr 06, 2012
London: A facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses are over will be closed from Friday as part of the Cameron government's drive to cut migration, which may put off those aspiring to study in the UK. Under the Tier 1 (Post-study work) route, Indian and other non-EU students were able to take up work for two years in the UK...
03:55 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: Global credit card giant MasterCard is investigating a possible breach of cardholder information, says The Wall Street Journal. The breach was reported by Krebs On Security blog and which also said that MasterCard's rival Visa was also informing card-issuing banks about a breach involving a US-based payment processor. None of the credit card companies have indicated which payment processor was the source of the breach. WSJ quotes MasterCard...
08:58 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Chennai: The US Consulate General has recorded a 27 per cent increase in the number of 'L' visa applications in the first quarter of this year, a senior diplomat said on Thursday. "So far in 2012, we have processed 6,044 L visas a 27 per cent increase over the same period in 2011," Nicholas Manring, Chief of Consular Services at the United States Consulate General told. In the corresponding period...
08:55 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Washington: In a move that is expected to hit Indian IT companies majorly, the US government has decided to hike H-1B visa fee from next fiscal even as the maximum number of applications for fiscal year 2013 has been retained at 65,000. In a statement, USCIS listed out the details of the fees to be filed by the applicants for H-1B visas, which starts from a base fee of $...
03:21 PM, Mar 29, 2012
London: The spurt in the number of forgeries detected in the student visa applications lodged in New Delhi during 2010 had prompted the British high commission to stop accepting new applications, official sources said. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) said that 6,388 forgeries were detected in the New Delhi office, which was a considerable increase compared to the number of such cases detected in previous years: 2,846...
11:33 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said on Sunday that the Congress government in the state was committed to create employment opportunities for the educated youth in the state. Addressing a public meeting at the RK beach in connection with Visakha Vasantostavam, he said 1.6 lakh jobs would be created in government departments in the state this year. Stating that the government intention was to provide good...
01:05 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Beijing: China has apparently acknowledged that it has discontinued its policy of issuing stapled visas to people from Jammu and Kashmir, suggesting that there have been no such cases in recent times. "Have you seen any such reports (of issuance of stapled visas to Kashmiris) in recent times?" Deputy Director General of China's Foreign Ministry Li Kexin said here, replying to a question on the issue. His remarks come ahead...
03:48 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: In what may come as good news to American visa applicants, the United States on Wednesday announced that Indians who are renewing their visas, valid or expired, within four years, are likely to get waiver for a personal interview. "This new programme will permit consular officers to waive interviews for some qualified applicants who are renewing their visa within 48 months or four years, of expiration of their...
05:34 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Ahmedabad: US Consul General Peter Haas on Tuesday skirted questions on granting visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying America does not comment on "private visa matters". "It's a long-standing US policy... We do not comment on private visa matters," Haas said when asked if there was any change in the US policy with regard to granting of visa to Modi that was denied to him in 2005 in...
05:24 PM, Mar 20, 2012
