Category: visa
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Are You Visiting or Staying in the USA?
Immigrating to the USA can be quite a challenge whether you are planning to visit temporarily or stay to live and work permanently. Learn about the different kinds of options on how you can come based on your unique circumstances. Coming as a Visitor Changing Status from Visitor Coming to Live People come to the…
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Visa Fees are Going Up
These increases will be effective on May 30, 2023. The fee for visitor visas for business or tourism (B1/B2), and student and exchange visitor visas will increase from $160 to $185. The fee for non-immigrant visas for temporary workers (H, L, O, P, Q, and R categories) will increase from $190 to $205. The fee…
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2024 Diversity Visa
Did you apply for DV last year? The results of the lottery have been announced. 55,000 people will be given the opportunity to come to the United States. You can go to the U.S. State Department website and check out the status of the application until the end of September 2023.
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Applying For adjustment of status (Green Card)
There are two paths to permanent resident status or to a green card: In some cases, an applicant that is in the U.S. and is not eligible to adjust in the U.S. will be able to go back to his or her country to go through consular processing. However, he or she might be subject…
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Bring your Spouse or Minor Children as a U.S. Citizen
Who is this visa for? The IR1 or CR1 visa will enable a U.S. citizen to bring his/her foreign-citizen spouse and children (less than 21 years old and unmarried) to the USA as permanent legal residents. Who can apply? CR1 vs IR1 visa? If by the time the green card is issued, the marriage has…
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Bring your Fiancé(e)
K-1 visa The K-1 visa allows a foreign-citizen fiancé(e) to come to the United States on a non-immigrant visa. Each eligible child of a K-1 visa applicant may apply for a K-2 visa by filing and paying the visa application fee. What are the steps? Required Documentation The foreign-citizen fiancé(e), and each eligible child applying…
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Come as a visitor
B1 visa B2 Visa How much does it cost? It costs $185 to file for a B Visa. How long does it take? Please visit this State Department link to check how long it will take to get a visa interview. Travelers 13 and younger and 80 and older do not need to interview. Documents…
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Come as a Student
F-1 or M-1 Visa If a visa applicant has the money to pay for school and living expenses in the US, they may be allowed to come to the U.S. on a student visa. The F-1 Visa is for languages and academic studies and the M-1 Visa is for vocational studies. How much does it…
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File for Asylum
Who can file? If an applicant can establish that he/she has suffered persecution or fears that he/she will suffer persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, he/she can seek asylum. Affirmative filing If the applicant applies for asylum out of his/her own initiative with the U.S. Citizenship…
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Visa Photograph Guidelines
Photograph Requirements Paper Photo Digital Image