Posts Tagged ‘Fiscal Year’

Employment-Based Immigrant Visa Exhausted for FY2011

September 15th, 2011 Tushar Mathur

The State Department's Immigrant Visa Control section has notified the USCIS that all employment based immigrant visas have been used up for fiscal year 2011, as reported by AILA.  No visa numbers
would be authorized effective 09/15/2011 until the end of September (the end of the fiscal year).  Immigrant visa numbers will become available again on October 3, 2011 as FY2012 begins.  USCIS adjudication officers may continue to submit requests for visa numbers as usual.  These requests will be put on hold until October 3, 2011 by the State Department.  Strong demand for employment visas and processing from August is the reason for the exhaustion, according to the State Department.


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Diversity Visa ("Visa Lottery) still available for most countries; deadline is 09/31/2011

August 16th, 2011 Tushar Mathur

 The Diversity Visa Program runs on a fiscal year schedule.  For DV-2011, September will be the last month for selected applicants to apply for their immigrant visa or adjustment of status.  Diversity visas will not be issued to applicants after September 30, 2011.  The Department of State reports that visa numbers are still available for most countries.  Please see table below.

Region All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately
AFRICA CURRENT Except: Ethiopia 32,700
ASIA CURRENT
EUROPE CURRENT Except: Uzbekistan  UNAVAILABLE
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) CURRENT
OCEANIA CURRENT
SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN CURRENT


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Green card process for Indians in US

March 31st, 2010 Tushar Mathur

In economic terms India is the main supplier of human capital or the skilled labour in the whole world. Germany supplies cars, UAE supplies oil, China supplies electronics and India supplies minds in fact great minds. Skilled labour is must for growth of any nation and in nation like India there is no shortage for it. Most of great minds want to settle in US because of better opportunities and more income. So for the permanent settlement there is a need of permanent immigration or in a sense a ticket to live in US permanently. This ticket is called the green card.

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The H 2B Visas Are Still Available

October 12th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

Did you know that under the following circumstances the H2B visa for the United States may be used for both Skilled and Unskilled work?

  1. An American employer, to handle the work load spikes of the peak months may choose to hire temporary staff. For that they can hire people using the option of the H2B visas.
  2. Also in case there is a one time occurrence situation for an employer in the United States, they may opt for the H2B visa.

The H2B visa is used for a number of works for the both the employers and the job seekers in the United States.

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Visa Bulletin for Oct 2009

September 12th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

The Visa Bulletin for Oct 2009 has summarized the availability of the number of immigrants during October 2009. As per the same a black and white report would be expected from the consular officers on the qualified applicants. The report is to be send o the United States department of state. I have discussed the same briefly here under and is aimed at benefiting you. Hope the under mentioned would keep you updated on the latest from the United States department of State

The limits for the fiscal year 09, has been fixed as per the provisions of the INA Act (Sec 201).

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