The H-1B visa, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations.

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

The executive order signed by Donald Trump on June 22 temporarily bans issuing of fresh H1-B and L-1 visas.

The move is likely to impact several Indian companies which send their technology professionals on B-1 visas for a short stay to complete jobs on-site in the US.

The H1-B is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

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.

The statement came hours after the Donald Trump administration announced new restrictions on H-1B nonimmigrant visa programme which it said is aimed at protecting American workers.

Notwithstanding the withdrawal of the most recent immigration restriction on foreign students, there is widespread fear that this student body will continue to be victimised in the long run – unless the Presidential election in November brings about real change.

Trump, who is seeking re-election in November, has long sought to overhaul the US immigration system to be based on merit rather than family ties.

'It's going to be a very big bill, a very good bill, and a merit-based bill and it will include DACA, and I think people are going to be very happy,' US President Donald Trump said.

The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to bar the US Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from forcing international students to leave the US.

The move will not have any impact on those entering the country on a temporary basis, Trump said on Tuesday.

A majority of Indians waiting in line for family-based Green Cards are siblings of US citizens.

Indian nationals account for nearly 70 per cent of all H-1B visa issued.

The people found in a refrigerated container on a boat received medical attention at a port and two were taken to hospital for further treatment for possible hypothermia

The H-1B program allows companies in the United States to temporarily employ foreign workers in occupations that require the application of highly specialised knowledge

India has no civilisational obligation towards persecuted people of non-Indic faiths, writes M. Nageswara Rao.

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to end a long-standing federal court agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention.

Yazmin Juarez spoke out at 'Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border,' a congressional hearing staged amid a series of scandals over poor conditions suffered by detained migrants that have rocked Washington.

Gurupreet Kaur, who was a month shy of turning 7, was found by the US Border Patrol officials 27 kilometres west of Lukeville, Arizona on Wednesday, when temperature reached a high of 42 degrees Celsius.