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Amazon is allowing employees stranded in India due to H-1B visa delays to work remotely until March 2. However, strict restrictions prevent them from coding, making strategic decisions, or interacting with customers. These limitations, reportedly due to local laws, significantly hinder core job functions, leaving many engineers questioning their productivity. Amazon has granted a temporary…
An H-1B and H-4 visa holders are facing inordinate delays in India after social media vetting started since December 15, immigration experts said they are flooded with questions on whether H-1B holders can travel to India for any emergency, family function, or wedding without worrying about how to re-enter the country. In December 2025, hundreds…
Immigration attorney Steven Brown said getting a 221(g)notice after the consular interview has become a new normal for H-1b professionals who are now stuck in their home countries without knowing when their application will come out of “administrative processing” and when they can come back to their job in the US. The attorney explained that…
Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene, long known for her staunch “America first” rhetoric, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives seeking to completely terminate the H-1B visa program, a key pathway for skilled foreign workers, a significant number of whom are from India.The legislation, designated HR 6937, was filed in the House on…
Amazon is allowing tech workers stranded in India due to H-1B visa delays to work remotely until March 2026. However, severe restrictions ban coding, testing, strategic decisions, and customer interactions, leaving many unable to perform their core job functions. This policy addresses visa backlogs, impacting thousands of employees. Amazon has granted a rare remote work…
As hundreds of Indians are stuck in India over the H-1B stamping delays, a Redditor’s question on what to do with a house and car in the US while there is no certainty when one can return to the US has gone viral. The unprecedented situation arose as the US consulates in India deferred the…
India on Friday flagged its concerns to the US over the cancellation of pre-scheduled H-1B visa interviews for large numbers of Indian applicants and said both sides were engaged on the issue. The interviews of thousands of H-1B visa applicants slated from the middle of this month in India were abruptly postponed by several months…
H-1B visas have long been the sought after route to the US for Indians. (AI image) New H-1B visa rules decoded: US President Donald Trump believes that America doesn’t have enough talented people – yet he is cracking down on immigration and introducing stricter controls on the people who can study and work in the…
The new rules require H-1B applicants to keep all social media accounts public throughout the visa process. Image: AI generated The H-1B visa is no longer just an employment instrument; it has become a geopolitical signal. Under the second presidency of Donald Trump, immigration has re-entered the language of trade, leverage and national security, with…
Nasscom, Indian IT’s biggest trade body, has said that the proposed shift in the H-1B visa selection process from a lottery system to one weighted by salary levels will harm innovation and weaken competitiveness by disadvantaging small businesses, research institutions and early-career international graduates. In a statement on the proposed rule, Nasscom highlighted that maintaining…
