The US Department of Homeland Security has announced that Russian nationals visiting Guam will be able to come under the US visit visa waiver scheme, but they did not immediately announce a timeline for when the new policy would go into place.
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The US H-1B visa program is about to reach its maximum cap of 65,000 visas. As of 18 November, 61,800 visas have been granted leaving only a small number left for employers looking to employ graduate level foreign workers in the US under this program.
The US Department of State may add Taiwan as a candidate for the United States Visa-Waiver Program (VWP) by next month, according to Taiwan's Foreign Minister Timothy Yang.Senior US officials have recently expressed "positive" messages that Taiwan may qualify as a VWP candidate by the end of this year."In recent dialogue with us, their high-level officials have been very positive about Taiwan becoming a VWP candidate this year," said Yang.
The United States and Russia moved one step closer to easing visa regimes between the two countries this past weekend when diplomats met to discuss a new visa agreement.Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov exchanged diplomatic notes during their 19 November meeting in Bali on the new visa agreement, according to a US Department of State press release.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) begin a review this week of all deportation cases, and plans to start a training program aimed at expediting deportations of convicted criminals and halting deportations of many illegal immigrants with no criminal record.
According to the US State Department, only eight million people applied to win a green card in this year's US Diversity Visa lottery, compared to the record 15 million applicants last year.A US State Department spokeswoman attributed the drop in applications this year to the fact that Bangladeshi citizens weren't eligible to participate. The South Asian nation in years past had submitted the most applications but, as of this year, is no longer classified as a low-immigration country to the US.