Key Points
Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders performing
research, conducting journalistic activities, performing work as
missionaries, or visiting any Protected, Restricted and Prohibited
area in India will be further enforced to obtain special permission
from the relevant jurisdictional Indian government authority
OCI cardholders living in India will also now be required to
notify their jurisdictional Foreigners Regional Registration Office
or Foreigners Registration Office if they make changes to their
Indian residential address and/or place of employment
Overview
Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders are permanent
residents of India. This status is granted to people of Indian
origin and their spouses. The OCI status allows cardholders to live
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The Biden administration and Democratic sponsors in the Senate
and House of Representatives have put forth a sweeping new
immigration reform bill, the 353-page U.S. Citizenship Act of
2021. The bill states its purpose as providing an earned path
to citizenship, addressing the root causes of migration,
responsibly managing the southern border, reforming the immigrant
visa system, and other goals. The bill does not emphasize
enforcement.
The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by
striking the term alien and replacing it with
A client wrote to us with a very common scenario: he is a UK citizen and US permanent resident (US green card holder) with a tenured position at a large American university.
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The Department of State s Visa Bulletin for March 2021
shows a seven-month leap forward for Chinese and Indian green card
applicants in the employment-based first preference category, with
a final action date of August 1, 2020, for both countries. In
February, immigrant visas were available for those with priority
dates earlier than January 1, 2020.
The March bulletin also includes information on diversity
category cut-offs for April and instructions on reporting address
changes for overseas cases.
Details:
Visa Bulletin for March 2021,
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2021/visa-bulletin-for-march-2021.html
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NIEs for travelers from these Trans-Atlantic countries had been
granted (at times with relative ease at some U.S. embassies and
consular posts) based on previous State Department guidance. Under
the prior guidance, executives, managers and specialists in the E-1
and E-2 (treaty traders and investors), H-1B (specialty occupation
workers) and L-1 (intracompany transferees) visa categories, whose
visit could be shown as likely to confer substantial economic
benefit on the U.S., would often be approved. (For
background, see this blog post ( Pursuing a National Interest Exception to the