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Every year, most students from India travel to Canada to pursue their higher studies and eventually start their professional lives. A recent article by Forbes quoted an NFAP report as claiming that “many Indian students have decided to attend Canadian universities rather than US universities since Canada’s immigration policies are better at attracting …

Canada is further reducing the number of study permits it will grant to foreign students and tightening eligibility for work permits in a bid to cut down on the number of temporary residents in the country, the government said on Wednesday. The announcement comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal …

Canada opposition leader Pierre Poilievre said that if his party wins the next federal election, it will address the housing crisis asserting that the country’s immigration system needs reform to achieve this. Pierre Poilievre said, “It’s not about immigration, it’s about math. It’s not a question of whether you support …

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced a hike in the premium processing fee for H-1B visa applications. After an increase of 12%, the new fees will amount to $2805. This change will come into effect next year on February 26. As per the announcement on December 27, the premium …

In a landmark policy update, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced significant changes affecting international students in the U.S. on F visas. For the first time, these F-1 visa students can now directly apply for immigrant visas under the Employment-Based (EB) category. F students eligible for immigrant visas …

In a significant move for Indian H-1B visa holders, the U.S. Department has reinstated the domestic renewal of non-diplomatic nonimmigrant visas, a process discontinued since 2004. The pilot has been limited only Indian and Canadian H-1B principal applicants and to those firms whose H-1B employees may need to travel abroad …

The US Department of State has recently issued the December 2023 Visa Bulletin, a crucial document that delineates per-country priority date cutoffs governing immigrant visa availability and the process of adjustment of status applications. On a monthly basis, the Department of State evaluates the accumulation of applications in different immigrant …