Posts Tagged ‘Visas’

Thinking of migrating to the United States?

Indians who are thinking of migrating to the United States have a few options when it comes to the immigration process. If they have close relatives currently residing in the United States who are already permanent residents or citizens, they can have their family members sponsor them. Alternatively, if they have any special skills or work in a position which is in high demand in the United States, they may opt to apply for an employment-based visa.

There are five different categories of those eligible for employment-based visas with the code E1 (Employee First Preference) taking precedence over the other codes; namely E2, E3, E4 and E5.

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Steps to get a Green Card for Indians in US

This is a fact that India is still a developing country and US has been a developed country for a long time. So Indians in search of greener pastures migrate to US looking for better jobs and good standard of living. Most of them travel on visas that are non-immigrant and mostly get a HIB visa that gives a ticket to stay in US for at most 6 years. After giving services for these many years everyone wants to have a permanent citizenship of US and that is granted by the green card.

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Visa for Nurses

Looking at the huge shortage of the nurses in the United States today, this has gone up to 117,000 for the case of unfilled vacancies for registered and qualified nurses, at different hospitals and nursing homes across the United States.

As a resolution to the above mentioned problem on the 11th of Feb in 2009. A new act was introduced in the house known as the Nurse Relief Act HR 1001. The crux of this new Act is that a new category of visas, the W – Visa category would be introduced which would only be for the nurses from all over the world to come over to the United States.

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The Green Card Lottery to Start Soon

The Green Card Lottery for immigrating to the United States is supposed to start soon. Yes, starting 2nd October the applications for the lottery would be accepted, under the diversity visa 2011 program. Popularly this scheme is also known as the Green Card Lottery by lots of people around the world.

For decades now the United States has been a destination of choice for millions of people for the purpose of immigration. They look for a better living standard in the United States and through this program the dream of a lot of people now would come true.

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B1 and B2 Visas for the US

The B1 visa is issued for the Business travelers to the United States and the B2 Visa is issued to visitors who intend to spend some time in the United States just for pleasure. Normally these two types of visas are issued simultaneously. What that would mean for you is in case you are already holding a B1 visa and you wish to travel to the United States simply for pleasure for maximum of three months then in this case you need not apply for a fresh Visa, the old one should be good enough for you.

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