The backlog imposes heavy operational and fiscal burdens on the system itself. USCIS’s overall pending caseload has climbed past 11.3 million applications across all categories, with average clearance times nearly doubling in recent quarters (from…
A major reform took effect in late July 2026 via an interim final rule from USCIS. It allows asylum officers to refer certain affirmative asylum applications directly to immigration judges without first conducting the customary…
Chandigarh: Senior Congress MLA from Bholath, Sukhpal Singh Khaira, today urged the Punjab Government and Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha to extend the ongoing Assembly session by at least a few more days so that…
From the unresolved legacy of 1966 to border security, terrorism costs and inadequate financial support, Punjab continues to ask: Who will speak for Punjab? Punjab has reached a point where it must ask some uncomfortable…
[caption id="attachment_24663" align="alignright" width="500"] File photo[/caption] Mohali: Under the pretext of tabling a bill to regulate fee structures in private unaided schools during the ongoing session of the Vidhan Sabha, the Punjab Government has stabbed…
[caption id="attachment_25591" align="alignleft" width="442"] Arjan Singh, then Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force, arrives at PAF Station Peshawar in 1966 to meet his Pakistani counterpart, Nur Khan, in the aftermath of…
The sharp rise in deportations of Indian nationals from the United States, reaching a multi-year record of about 3,567 in 2025 (up from 617 in 2023 and 1,368 in 2024), with 1,273 more by late…
Milpitas(California)--The North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) is deeply concerned about the expanding immigration enforcement campaign in the United States, including the increasing removal of Indian nationals and the growing number of denaturalisation cases involving naturalised…
Punjab: A State on Life Support? Dead Last Among 18 Major States in Fiscal Health Punjab, long celebrated as India’s breadbasket and a symbol of post-Independence agricultural prosperity, now finds itself in a precarious fiscal…
America likes to describe itself as a nation where people of every race, religion, nationality and background can live together under the protection of the law. It is a powerful ideal, but the years from…
