The intimidating barriers for entry to India's top colleges have had unexpected fallout. If the rise in student visa applications this year is anything to go by, stuRead More

To address the much debated issue of illegal immigration, US announced a new immigration policy which may reprieve around 300,000 undocumented immigrants from being deported. As per this new policy, only the migrants who are a potential threat for US in terms of public safety will be deported while the ones with no criminal record will be allowed to apply for work permits. In a letter to Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wrote,"The president has s....Read More

USA recently came up with a new immigration policy to address the prolonged issue of illegal immigration. According to these new policy immigrants with no criminal record and who are not a threat to public safety are allowed to apply for work permits and stay in the US (refer ‘Undocumented migrants with no criminal record can stay in US’). I....Read More

Indian citizens were the largest group to be issued H1B and L visas by the US last year, states Peter Haas, recently appointed consul general in Mumbai. Highlighting on the strong US-India people-to-people connections, Hass said, “While 8 lakh Americans travel to India each year, the US issues half a million non-immigration visas to Indians yearly.” “There are one lakh Indians studying in the US and 2.8 million Indian-Americans living there,” he said. Hass also mentioned the role t....Read More

Cambridge left behind Harvard and MIT in the run of world’s best universities.  The US institutions took over 13 top positions in the annual QS World University Rankings. In the list of top 20 universities, 5 are British universities where Oxford ranks 5th, Imperial ranks 6th, UCL ranks 7th and Edinburg is at 20th place. Swiss Federal Institute of technology is the only non English speaking university in Zurich which ranked 18th in the....Read More