In 8 months, no one makes it to no-fly list

Vistara declined to comment on the matter, saying it is sub judice.

In Birju’s case, according to a Jet Airways spokesperson, “the airline had set up an enquiry committee to investigate the said incident. As per the findings of the committee, and as per the provisions laid down in the DGCA, the said person has been put under the ‘no-fly’ list. Furthermore, placing the traveler on the no-fly list was promptly communicated to the authorities.”

Under the rules, a special internal committee will be set up to tackle complaints. The committee will be chaired by a retired district judge, and its members will include representatives of both airlines and flyers. Representatives for the passengers can be someone from flyers’ associations, a consumer rights groups, or a retired officer of the Consumer Forum. Once it receives a complaint against a flyer, which will need to be issued by the pilot in command, the committee will have 30 days to decide. During this period, the passenger will not be able to fly with the airline. In case the committee fails to take a decision in 30 days, passenger will be free to fly.

“Airlines need to start getting more mature. In the US and Europe, they have a website for a no-fly list and airline and other airport staff can access that, and passenger won’t even be able to book a ticket. The same should be followed here,” said Mark Martin, founder and CEO of Martin Consulting. intended purpose of the regulation issued by the Obama administration in 2015.

Also, they added to bolster their case, the spouses are themselves “highly educated and have tremendous potential to contribute to our society and economy”.

H-4 EAD (EAD stands for Employment Authorization Document) allows spouses of H-1B visa holders in line for permanent residency (Green Card) , not all H-1B visa holders, to work while waiting for their Green Cards, which for Indians could take up to 70 years, according to one count.

An estimated 1.5 million Indian H-1B visa holders are in line for Green Cards currently. Their waiting period is the longest and gets worse every year because of a country-cap that adds to the backlog. Work authorization for their spouses was aimed at making the wait less arduous, and thus act as an incentive. Many of those in the queue have built lives and businesses in the US, and in most cases, their children are US citizens.

Till June 2017, an estimated 105,000 of their spouses had been granted H-4-EAD, according to USCIS data cited by the lawmakers in their letter. The Obamaera regulation was challenged in a court by Save Jobs US, an organization comprised of and representing IT workers displaced by H-1B workers, in 2016. It lost. But its appeal has fared better, finding support from the US justice department of the Trump administration. But as the court case continued, the administration declared its intention, in December 2017, to do away with the regulation altogether, citing President Trump’s executive order to protect American jobs. It doubled down on it in a formal communication in January, with an entry in the Federal Registry, the US equivalent of the Indian Gazette.

Still, the administration has appeared less resolute in this than it would appear. It skipped an earlier announcement deadline and has sought to broad-base the debate saying whenever the rule change is notified, ample opportunity would be given to the public to respond, or, in other words, to oppose it. he instilled in me that I am able to write this. I hope in the years that you (Purinton) must spend in the jail you will one day realise the magnitude of your mistake and work towards your penance,” she had told the court during the Friday hearing.

Kuchibhotla’s killing had sent shockwaves across the United States and India, where many young dream of working and staying on to live as citizens in the US. The American dream suddenly turned dangerous for them as reports of other hate-filled responses to Indians – especially a video of H-1B families at a neighbourhood park in Ohio state shot by a man who was clearly opposed to foreign workers – surfaced.

The Indian-american community had blamed the shooting on social tensions unleashed by Trump, and some leaders went as far as to suggest that the president had “blood on his hands”.

The White House pushed back aggressively against these allegations, but was seen as being late in condemning the killing, which the president finally did, in the opening lines of his maiden address to the joint meeting of the US congress. “Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centres and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms,” the President said in the speech on March 1.

In a statement to the media after the sentencing, Dumala said that while nothing can “fill the void left by this murderous act”, she hopes to use the incident as a means of preventing others from having to undergo the suffering she experienced. “We must be there for each other, and be proactive to build a loving and understanding community for current and future generations. As Ian Grillot and others at Austin stood up that fateful February night, we must all stand up for each other before more hateful acts occur in our community,” she said. ident Rahul Gandhi will move to south Karnataka and the Bengaluru area in his ninth campaign run in the southern state from May 7 to 10. He has almost covered all the zones of the state in his eight phases of campaigning over the past three months.

Sonia Gandhi’s absence in election campaigns over the past 20 months was the first such after she joined active politics in 1998. Back then, she started campaigning for the Congress even before taking over the reins of the party from Sitaram Kesri on March 14, 1998. On January 11, 1998, she kicked off her first election tour by addressing a public meeting at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu where her husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991.

In between, Sonia skipped canvassing in Manipur in 2012 but only on the advice of party leaders following threats from militant outfits.