Facebook and Instagram suspended Trump at least until Inauguration Day. Twitch and Snapchat also disabled Trump's accounts. To top it all off, Twitter ended a nearly 12-year run and shuttered his account

The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China

Elected officials briefed on the inquiry and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had previously said Russia was behind the hacking spree, but President Donald Trump said it could have been China

Trump had issued a memorandum in this regard on April 10 which empowered the secretary of state and the homeland security secretary to deny visas to countries refusing to accept their citizens who violated American laws

The Redmond, Washington company is a user of Orion, the widely deployed networking management software from SolarWinds Corp which was used in the suspected Russian attacks on vital US agencies and others

The US Customs and Border Protection agency said on Wednesday its \"Withhold Release Order\" would ban cotton and cotton products from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), one of China's largest producers

These changes applied to the H-1B visa program and were announced back in October. They included imposing certain salary requirements on companies hiring foreign skilled workers and also imposing limits on speciality occupation

Out of these, three Indian-Americans have been elected as team leads to US president-elect Joe Biden's agency review teams (ARTs)

Calling the entire premise for the new visa rules \"false\", the companies argued that the economic growth created by H-1B visa holders creates numerous jobs for US workers

US President Donald Trump, keen to regulate the country's immigration policies, on June 22, signed the executive order temporarily banning issuing fresh H-1B and L-1 visas till December 31

The executive order that had temporarily banned issuing fresh H-1B and L-1 visas till December 31, caused a negative impact to the valuation of Fortune 500 firms equivalent to over USD 100 billion in losses

The Department of Labor regulation will raise those wage requirements for these high-tech workers and will make Americans more competitive

New H-1B restrictions: The US government's new order narrows definition of 'specialty occupation' while closing overboard definition that worked well for years for overseas companies doing business in the US

The H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise

There were 44,140 admissions for foreign media representatives in the US in 2018, a growth of over 160 per cent from the 16,753 admissions into the country in 1985

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials told Reuters last week that they had prepared the broader bans on cotton, cotton textiles and tomatoes, among China's biggest commodity exports, along with the orders announced on Monday

Classroom aides and superintendents were also added to the updated list of critical essential workers that includes doctors, nurses and IT workers, in a memo on Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Joe Harris, 55, whose father is an African from Jamaica and mother an Indian, is currently the US Senator from California and often has been described as a trailblazer by former president Barack Obama

Indian IT services may not have an  additional impact, however experts say clarity on execution of  going contracts if any and long-term cost impact is yet to be ascertained

As per the new fee plan employers filing visa processing requests will have to shell out an $555 (21 per cent increase) for H-B visas, and $850 (75 per cent increase) for L visas