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Jeddah: Some Gulf based NRIs and their families have been passing through difficult times in the wake of Covid-19 travel restrictions. The confusion over approved vaccination taken in India and subsequent travel relaxation for various visa types added to their problems. Transiting through different airlines in various gulf neighbouring countries makes the situation worse for […]

Biden won an early victory in March when he signed the USD 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package into law.

Biden said the Congress needs to pass legislation this year to finally secure protection for the Dreamers – the young people who have only known America as their home.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest immigration reform group.

Trump, a Republican, issued the ban last year, saying it was needed to protect US workers amid high unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump had deemed immigrants a “risk to the US labour market” and blocked their entry to the United States in issuing Proclamation 10014 and Proclamation 10052.

Biden proposed the 100-day pause on deportations during his campaign as part of a larger review of immigration enforcement.

The president told reporters at the White House that his executive orders are about how America is safer, stronger, more prosperous when it has a fair, orderly and humane legal immigration system.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said these students claimed to be employed by companies that do not exist.