The demand for U.S. visas from Indian citizens has increased by 80 percent in the past five years, according to officials from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Although there have been systematic improvements made in order to increase efficiency and address the high demand, the consulates are still facing ...

Social media information could become relevant when traveling to the United States. The U.S. government has proposed considering the visitors’ social media account as an additional form of screening. Therefore, international travelers may be asked to disclose their social data when applying for a visa or just before entering the ...

The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides citizenship for all the children born on U.S. soil but in order to release birth certificates, the parents need to present certain documents. Texas has recently expanded the list of documents that allow illegal immigrant parents to obtain birth certificates for ...

According to a Pew Research Center analysis, about 5 percent of the U.S. labor force consists of undocumented immigrants. That means that more than 25 million workers in the country are foreign-born and do not have legal status. Although undocumented individuals don’t have the right to work legally in the ...

Up to one million Pakistanis live in the United States and 104,000 gained American citizenship between 2005 and 2014, according to recent data from the US consulate in Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan. They now form the seventh largest immigrant group in the U.S. The number of Pakistan-born population ...

Data Scientist has been one of the best jobs in the U.S. for years but it wasn’t until 2016 that it made it to the top. The demand is high, the salaries are even higher and there are plenty of career opportunities for those who work in the field. There ...

For the first time in the history of the U.S. politics, a major party has selected several undocumented immigrants among its ranks. The Democratic National Convention, set to take place next week, will include undocumented workers in official roles, as speakers, members of the convention credentials and platform committees. According ...

Immigration from Cuba is still on the rise, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. So far this fiscal year, which ends on September 30, more than 44,000 Cuban asylum seekers have entered the United States. This number is five times higher than the entire wave of ...

According to data from the U.S. Labor of Statistics, there were 15.5 million employees in the hospitality industry as of June 30. Most of them are hotel-specific jobs. The U.S. economy added 59,000 jobs in the field last month, representing 20 percent of the total number of jobs created in ...

Foreign-born entrepreneurs are a vital part of the U.S. economy, a new study shows. Economists Sari Pekkala Kerr of Wellesley and William R. Kerr from Harvard have recently found that as of 2008, more than one in four entrepreneurs in the United States was foreign-born. Apart from the famous cases, ...