Today through you, we are trying to bring into limelight an exhaustive issue, rather a multitude of issues which further becomes wider in scope. Because the greater exhaustiveness in it, the larger issue is that you teach us throughout the day, preach us, give big ‘jumlas’ that this is India’s reach, this is pride, this is dignity, this is honor, this is nationalism, the chest is 65 inches wide and not 56 inches. But what is the truth? On one hand, the world out there pokes us on the issues of our general life, students’ life, while on the other hand America is strutting in a way as if India doesn’t even exist. On one hand where we suffer, feel pain, get anguished for a common man, Kuwait takes a decision on its own regarding our laborers, which includes no consultation and no mutual discussion. We do not know where our reach lies. Out of four, three Indians are involved in the American H-1B Visa, even they take one-sided decisions. Where is Indian Diplomatic reach? Where is our economic strength? Where is our image of being a superpower?

Pitiable Condition of Indian Students in USA

The Department of Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) told the states department that students, whose classes are going completely online, will not be issued visas for the next semester; nor will such students be allowed entry.

The ruling applies to specific types of visa issued for academic study.

According to the ICE, F-1 students participate in academic course work, while M-1 students are students of ‘vocational coursework’.

The US had more than one million international students doing various graduate and undergraduate programmes in 2018-19, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE). That’s about 5.5% of the total student community in the country.

Out of these, nearly three-quarters are from Asia - 48% Chinese and 26% Indians.

The IIE says that, according to the US Department of Commerce, international students contributed $45bn (£36bn) to the country’s economy.

The US embassy said, in an official alert issued on its website, that the US mission has been canceling all types of appointments involving immigrant and non-immigrant visas since March 16 in light of the global Covid-19 epidemic.

According to the Institute of International Education (IIE), there are more than 1 million international students in the US for the 2018-2019 academic year. Which includes various countries like China, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Canada.

Failure of Indian Foreign Policy on H1B Visa

US government figures show that last year, more than 373,000 of these visas were granted.

The US issues 85,000 H1-B visas every year out of which Indians reportedly get about 60,000 visas i.e. 70% of total H-1B visas issued, annually.

The move will impact nearly 85,000 workers who were issued H-1B visas this year out of 2,25,000 applicants.

What is the government strategy on this issue?

Is It the failure of Indian Diplomacy?

Why hasn’t the govt. settled the issue with their so-called friend Donald Trump?

What will happen to all that money coming in from USA?

Kuwait Approves Draft of Migrant Quota Bill, 8 lakh Indians may have to leave Kuwait-

3.1 According to the bill, Indians should not exceed 15% of the population.

3.2 Ministry of External Affairs of India estimates that as of December 2018, the six countries of the GCC are home to more than 8.5 million Indians.

3.3 The Indian community is the largest expatriate community in Kuwait, with a total population of about 1.45 million (14.5 lakhs). Kuwait has a population of 4.3 million.

3.4 Kuwait has a population of 4.3 million. Significantly, after the coming out of the Corona epidemic, a period of rhetoric between MPs and government officials has been gaining momentum in Kuwait to reduce the number of foreigners.

120 million jobs lost in April due to lockdown- More than 12 crore people lost their jobs across the country due to the lockdown imposed

4.1 According to data from the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, CMIE, more than 2 Crore jobs have been received in May and 7 crores in June. Accordingly, of the 12.2 Crore jobs lost due to the lockdown in April, 9.1 crore jobs have come back.

4.2 In the lockdown, when jobs were going out from all sectors, jobs were increasing in farming, in May-June it brought more than 1.14 crore jobs.

4.3 The condition of salaried class people who lost jobs in lockdown was very bad, 3.5 Crore jobs were lost in two months, but only 39 lakh jobs were received in June.

A study by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research says that at the time of Lockdown-1 and Lockdown-2, 19.5 crore workers were threatened.

Author is an MP & Spokesperson

Based on Press Briefing on July 8, 2020