In a significant move that could reshape hiring of foreign skilled professionals, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed a sweeping overhaul of wage rules for H-1B visas and employment-linked green card programmes, sharply increasing minimum salary thresholds across skill levels.The proposed rule, titled “Improving Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of…
An Indian-origin man in California has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for loan fraud. An Indian-origin man in California has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for defrauding the government’s Paycheck Protection Program Loan. 37-year-old Gurjeet Bath has also been ordered to pay a $100,000 criminal fine. Bath applied for this loan,…
An India-origin man in the US is facing 39 charges related to sex abuse, trafficking, molestation as more victims of the liquor store owner came forward during the ongoing investigation against 32-year-old Kulvir S Brar. Brar was arrested in March 13 after police said he was using Snapchat to solicit sex from minors, offering them…
The Indian-American community does not claim FBI director Kash Patel to be one of them and there are many reasons behind it, Dr Dhivya Srinivasa, a plastic surgeon, said in one of her viral Get Ready With Me videos. The video went viral as her audience loved how nonchalantly she delivered what they considered the…
A bipartisan bill introduced in the US House of Representatives seeks to exempt American sponsors of physicians and other healthcare professionals on H-1B visas from a steep $100K surcharge imposed under a presidential proclamation in Sept.Titled the ‘H-1Bs for Physicians and the Healthcare Workforce Act,’ the bill was introduced by Congressman Mike Lawler along with…
Gaurav Sabnis, an Indian-origin professor at New Jersey’s Stevens Institute of Technology, shared his experience of visiting the Iguaçu Falls and how embarrassed he was as an Indian there as an Indian group created a ruckus, hollering, jumping the queue. Sabnis recalled that it was a boat safari and to reach the boat, the tourists…
A 22-year-old Indian man, Birinder Singh, who recenty got his work permit in Canada, was killed in a random firing on Highway 2 near Leduc on March 14. Police said a white or grey pickup truck approached a black Honda Civic and the man inside the truck started firing, which hit Singh, who was driving…
An Indian-origin Sikh restaurant owner in west London has alleged that the Metropolitan Police “repeatedly refused” to help his family despite serious threats, hours after he was detained and later released following a tense confrontation outside his restaurant.Harman Singh Kapoor, owner of Rangrez, claimed in a social media post that his “outburst” was driven by…
At a time when Indian professionals are facing increasing racial attacks in Ireland, the story of a 27-year-old techie who makes $144,000 a year and calls his life in Ireland better did not go down well with the Internet. They questioned why companies like Amazon were beinging Indians to Ireland and pushing Irish people into…
A cab driver who identified his last name as Singh and refused to reveal his first name has now sued the Queensland Police in Australia for racial targeting of him in a false case. The Indian-origin Pujabi cab driver was involved in an incident on January 26, 2023, after a resident claimed that Singh was…
