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U Visa – An important tool for crime victims to obtain legal status

January 6th, 2012 Tushar Mathur

Many immigrants in the United States are hesitant to approach police and other law enforcement officers when they become crime victims. For people who are in the U.S. without legal status, they try to avoid contacts with police officers for fear that their illegal status may be exposed. Even legal immigrants are sometimes afraid to approach police in the U.S. because of cultural differences and language barriers. Most of them do not know that there exists a special visa designed for victims of certain crimes called the U visa.

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September Visa Bulletin: F2A Advances; EB-2 India, China Stagnant

August 11th, 2011 Tushar Mathur
 The September 2011 Visa Bulletin has been released by the State Department. On the employment side, there is not much movement.  As the FY2011 is coming to an end, many employment visa beneficiaries were hoping that there would be some nice movements in EB-2 and EB-3 preference categories.  However, for September, both Eb-2 China and Eb-2 India remain unchanged at 15 April 2007, although EB-3 and Other Workers have some small movements. 

Things are mixed on the family side.  F1 is unchanged again for China, India and the Other Countries but  advances more than six months and one week respectively for Philippines and Mexico.  There are some significant movements in F2A (lawful residents’ spouses and children).  F2A has advanced more than four months for China, India, Philippines and the Other Countries to 1 December 2008.  F2A Mexico also moves forward to 22 September 2008. 

Family
Other Countries
CHINA-
mainland born
INDIA
MEXICO
PHILIPPINES
F1
01MAY04
01MAY04
01MAY04
15MAR93
01NOV96
F2A
01DEC08
01DEC08
01DEC08
22SEP08
01DEC08
F2B
01JUL03
01JUL03
01JUL03
01NOV92
22MAR01
F3
22AUG01
22AUG01
22AUG01
22NOV92
15MAY92
F4
15APR00
15APR00
15APR00
22MAR96
08JUL88
1st: Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Citizens (about 23,000 per year).

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Tips for Improving Your Chances of Getting Cleared by US Customs at an Airport

May 21st, 2011 Tushar Mathur
1) Be honest, upfront, and polite with the Customs & Border Protection (CBP) agents. They are trained to detect when you are lying so don’t even try, it will only hurt you. Being upfront with the agents is especially in your interest because during the admission process at the border/point of entry they are the only people who can help you. You have no right to an attorney during this time. The CBP agents have a certain amount of discretion and you want to make sure that they will feel inclined to exercise it with you, if necessary, to admit you to the US.

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Help for Students on F1 Visa in US

November 12th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

Getting an admission to one of the schools in the United States and then getting the visa approved basis that to get in to the United States on an F1 visa is really the easy part. It’s to be noted that the F1 visa is not a sponsored program, as in the case of the J1 visa. Thus the visitor has to bear all the related expenses himself during his stay in the United States. Thankfully the United States government is considerate about this and to help the students during the stay they are allowed to work for limited number of hours.

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