For thousands of highly skilled and talented Indians, who are waiting for green cards in the US on the fast track EB-1 (employment based) category, the recent monthly visa bulletin released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, brought bad news. The visa bulletin for October 2023, which is also the first for the fiscal year 2024, did not deliver on an earlier USCIS guidance that the backlog...
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When Dr Aditi Paul, a researcher and author who works at the intersection of technology, psychology and human communication, decided to move to Michigan from Kolkata for a PhD, she was not thinking about the big picture of her career path but was focused on the immediate next step – getting an F-1 student visa. And after she joined the programme, it was about the step after that. “When I graduated,...
KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken up a major plantation drive to create green verges across the city to combat pollution. The drive, which was launched last year before the monsoon, has gained momentum in the past six months while the civic body wants to plant over one lakh saplings in the next six months. The KMC parks department has tied up with the civic body's solid waste...