Us Immigration Policy

Joe Biden to propose Day 1 immigration bill that grants 8-year citizenship path for immigrant

The legislation puts Biden on track to deliver on a major campaign promise important to Latino voters and other immigrant communities after four years of Donald Trump's restrictive policies and mass deportations

New US policy to deny asylum to people on Mexican border likely to increase overcrowding in ‘severely strained’ detention centres

A new policy to deny asylum to anyone who shows up on the Mexican border after traveling through another country threatens to exacerbate overcrowding at severely strained US immigration detention centres and makeshift holding areas.

Confusion, fear reigns over asylum-seekers at US-Mexico border after new immigration policy comes into force

Confusion prevailed at the Mexico border after US President Donald Trump's new immigration policy aimed at slashing number of asylum seekers went into effect on Tuesday.

‘Detention centres are cruel’: Migrant woman whose infant daughter died in US facility says treatment given to immigrants is ‘extremely unfair’

A Guatemalan woman whose infant daughter died after being held by US immigration authorities denounced the "cruelty" of the country's migrant detention centres on Wednesday.

Donald Trump's new merit-based immigration system to benefit Indian professionals, skilled workers

The immigration reform proposals significantly increase the quota for skilled workers from the existing nearly 12 percent to 57 percent.

'Our country is full': Donald Trump travels to Mexican border to deliver message to would-be illegal immigrants

While sounding tough, Donald Trump's surprise shift to tariffs from the previous threat to close the border is a major retreat.

Donald Trump’s immigration policies have caused chaos, may be encouraging illegal influx along US-Mexico border, say experts

Overwhelmed by an influx of migrants at the border that is taxing the immigration system, President Donald Trump is grasping for something — anything — to stem the tide.

Canada, Britain gain popularity among international job-seekers; US sees decline due to immigration policies

The open immigration policy in Canada has become the alternative for Indians, as well as job-seekers from Latin countries too

US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits as govt suspends programme offering enlistees path to citizenship

Some immigrant US Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, The Associated Press has learned

5-year-old differently-abled Indian boy gets separated from immigrant mother in US' Arizona

An Indian woman who illegally crossed into the US was separated from her 5-year-old differently-abled son due to Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy