The Visa

VISA Inc. is a multinational financial services corporation which facilitates electronic funds transfers across the world. Visa also issues debit and credit cards but it does not extend credit or sets charges for the consumers. It only caters to the needs of financial institutions regarding VISA-branded payment products which are used by the institutions to offer cash access programmes and cashless transaction programmes to their customers. The global network of Visa transactions is also called…

via investor visa What is an investor visa? Investor Visa under subclass 891 offered by the Australian government is a type of visa especially designed for interested people who have held an investment in Australia for at least four years. Those who have completed the duration of four years are now entitled to permanent visa. Requirements to be fulfilled for the visa • You must be a holder of Visa subclass 162, that is, investor provisional visa. • Before filing for the investor visa, Australia…

Security Concerns For Granting Special Immigrant Visas to enter the U.S. Alonzo Tothsonie Professor Subject Date Introduction The Department of State’s authority to issue Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to Afghan nationals under section 602(b) of the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009, as amended, has been extended (Bureau of Consular Affairs). In relation to this, there are security concerns for granting Special Immigrant Visas to enter the U.S Accordingly, the National Defense…

lottery is applied to people who live in Asia, Middle East, and Africa. One things you have to know is the winners will not get a money prize. It is one in a life time opportunity, also known as Diversity Visa (DV). This worth is more than money; it includes life changing opportunities. Diversity Visa is a kind of lottery that allows people to come to the United States and live. This may only happens if a family provided all legal documents needed and fulfill all requirements. When my family…

extension, and yet, my life could be so much worse. I could be living in a poor country drowning under communist rule. Instead, I live in America. Many people would kill to be in my position. I seem so selfish. “Land of the free”. Right? “A Pause in Visas, A Pause in Lives” does not even specify who the author is. “ONCUBA STAFF” stares boldly back at me as I skim over the text I have chosen for this essay. It makes me wonder who might have actually written it. Was it a Cuban Rebel looking for a…

Environmental Scan: Specific Environment Current Rivalry The existing competitors of American Express include Discover Financial Services, Visa, Inc., and MasterCard Worldwide. Unlike American Express and Discover, Visa, and MasterCard do not finance, which means these companies are intermediaries and “they don’t directly finance credit card transactions” (Thangavelu, 2015). That being said, Discover is more in American Express’ strategic group because they both issue cards and work within the…

Defining the Market The four major purchase transactions worldwide in the consumer payment industry are done by Visa, MasterCard, Union Play and Amex. In 2014, together Visa and MasterCard represented about 84% of the market share (Visa with about 58% and MasterCard about 26% of the market share) (see appendix I). In the Notably, Visa and MasterCard are set up as a cooperatives of banks. According to mainstream economics, when firms instead of competing decides to collude. They may jointly…

Aside By Younger H-1B Workers” In the article published in Computerworld Digital Magazine, titled “Older IT Pros Pushed Aside By Younger H-1B Workers”, Patrick Thibodeau examines the controversy surrounding the H-1B Visa program. According to Thibodeau, the controversy regarding the H-1B Visa program stems from the debate on whether it is discriminatory toward age (3). The author raises the notion that there are numerous, current studies that demonstrate that there is a young age range for H-1B…

Supposedly, not as many Americans have heard of the Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws by issuing thousands of unauthorized visas in order to let an accounted for 6,000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. In contrast, many Americans have heard of other people who protected the Jews in the holocaust like Oskar Schindler, who only protected about 1,200 Jews by making them work in his factories. Artifacts that can be traced…

Caribbean diaspora and how that continues to impact American culture as well as other countries around the world they migrate to. He then introduces the independent Mexican filmmaker Sonia Fritz who has spent two decades living in Puerto Rico and her film Visa for a Dream—a documentary on Dominican migration to Puerto Rico. Primarily the stories…