Posted on 05/03/2025 6:30:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
ndtv.com-——The outgoing Biden administration has relaxed rules for H-1B visas that will make it easier for American companies to hire foreign workers with special skills and facilitate a smoother transition from F-1 student visas to H-1B visas, a move that is likely to benefit thousands of Indian tech professionals.
The most sought-after H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise......mostly from India.
Jill Biden got the priciest gift from a foreign leader in 2023 — a $20,000 diamond from India
By Associated Press—— cnn.com
Published 8:17 AM EST, Fri January 3, 2025
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President Joe Biden and his family were given tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders in 2023, according to an annual accounting published by the State Department on Thursday, with first lady Jill Biden receiving the single most expensive present: a $20,000 diamond from India’s leader.
The 7.5-carat diamond from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was easily the most costly gift presented to any member of the first family in 2023, although Jill Biden also received a brooch valued at $14,063 from the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States and a bracelet, brooch and photograph album worth $4,510 from the president and first lady of Egypt.
President Biden also received a number of expensive presents, including a commemorative photo album valued at $7,100 from South Korea’s recently impeached President Suk Yeol Yoon, a $3,495 statue of Mongolian warriors from the Mongolian prime minister, a $3,300 silver bowl from the sultan of Brunei, a $3,160 sterling silver tray from the president of Israel, and a collage worth $2,400 from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Federal law requires executive branch officials to declare gifts they receive from foreign leaders and counterparts that have an estimated value of more than $480. Many of the gifts that meet that threshold are relatively modest, and the more expensive ones are typically — but not always — transferred to the National Archives or put on official displays.
The $20,000 diamond to Jill from India was retained for official use in the White House East Wing, according to a State Department document, while the other gifts to the president and first lady were sent to the archives.
Recipients also have the option to purchase a gift from the US government at its market value, although that is rare, particularly with high-end items.
Pelosi’s leadership of the house committed the same negligence the DNC committed. Similarities are glaring
Donks stifled good leaders preventing any from stepping into lead roles.
Obama did it with Biden for God-only-knows why. Biden doubled down with a minority in black female Harris and then Harris with Walz, eschewing a talented Shapiro.
Pelosi had aged Steny Hoyer in leadership and now they’re both too old to continue, so another back-benching minority in Jeffries was promoted.
Or, perhaps there is simply no good leadership prospects to be found anywhere within the party—or in Nancy’s House.
I lean toward the later, but we’ll never know for a while if any sane Donks exist. Carry on, Donks...you’re doing just fine.
RATS have a strategy.
Democrat kooks trying to effectively do what the Butler “assasin” and handlers failed to accomplish.
Maybe the Dems should put Nancy back in charge of their House caucus. She’s tanned, rested, and ready!
i think his plan is to climb to the top of the statue of liberty
and not come down until he gets his way
i like it
its a good plan
If you actively court loonie tunes, you get looney behavior.
As to GOP, ba**less and bought.
OTOHand, removing BeijingBiden would have put Harris in office. That would only have been worthwhile if the corrupt nature of the 2020 election was actually revealed and she was removed, too. Would have been a tight race, tho. Once in office as the first woman Pres the HilaryHag would have had her offed.
Not could not.
WOULD not.
They’re largely part of the problem and I suspect many who have run as republicans are actually democrats lying about their actual position.
I’ll bet the clown has done some awful nefarious deeds like Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.
The above says it all. The democRATS and DemoKKKrats care, first, last, and always, about THEIR pocketbooks.
Just look at the RICH Marxist/Leninist Bernie Sanders crisscrossing the country in private jets. Bernie "My third house is on the lake" Sanders.
The RICH democRATS' pronouns are: Me, Myself, and I.
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