In mid-2014, Nikhil Aitharaju, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Tint, a social media integration platform in San Francisco, needed to hire a software engineer for his quickly growing, 34-person company. He’d located the perfect candidate through an online application process, but that person was located in the Netherlands. […]
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The U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) recently published Monthly Visa Bulletin for December does not contain any changes to the “filing cutoff date” for individuals in the Employment-based, First, Second or Third Preference categories (EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3). This means that the new Visa Bulletin does not open up any […]
Decades ago there was a hit song in India, “Chitthi Aayi Hai,” a tear-jerking anthem about mothers mourning the loss of sons who went to school abroad and never came back. The tune has changed. “It used to be by default students from India and China, in particular, bought one-way […]
On Sept. 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of State published an historic visa bulletin for October 2015, which would have allowed a higher-than-anticipated number of employment-based applicants from India and China to file their green card applications on Oct. 1. On Friday, Sept. 25, the State Department revised the visa bulletin such that far […]