US Study Visa Applicants from India must Verify University’s Credential to Avoid Fraud
Indian students are being advised to act with due diligence while selecting U.S universities to pursue their prospective educational wants, in order to avoid any fraudulent universities sponsoring them. The immigration agencies in India are urging the local students to investigate their choice of Universities before traveling to the U.S, after hundreds of Indian students [...]
US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) has arrested eight officials of American Health and Technology Institute (AHTI) for their alleged involvement in international student visa fraud. About 200 students mostly belonging to India have been given the choice to either transfer to other institutes or return to their homeland. The AHTI officials were manipulating Student [...]
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Are US employers misusing the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that allows them to hire foreign students to work for up to 29 months? At least US Senator Chuck Grassley believes that not only OPT is hurting the US workers but also is jeopardising national security. In a letter to US Government Accountability Office, Grassley [...]
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Update: Elizabeth Olivas have arrived in USA on June 1, 2012. US State Department grants a visa waver to Elizabeth Olivas to return to United States after being stuck in her native Mexico for six weeks due immigration rules. Elizabeth Olivas has been living in Indiana, United States since the age of 4 along with [...]
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The increased number of higher education universities in Pakistan has been attributed to the reduction in the number of students from Pakistan applying to study in United States educational institutes after the tragic event of 9/11 by Shazia Khan of Fulbright outreach programme in Pakistan. Well is it the real reason for reduction in number [...]
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The State Department has introduced some changes in the J-1 visa regime in a bid to ensure due rights to the overseas students studying in the American universities. Launched almost fifty years ago, J-1 visa enables the students to work and earn during their studies. But this programme is not supervised by the government agencies, [...]
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The American immigration authorities plan to issue 14 percent more visas to the Indians every year till 2020 in a bid to improve to business and political ties between the two nations and get more tourists from India. According to the official stats, the US embassy in India processed almost 700, 000 visa application during [...]
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