Visa

begin what exactly is H1B visas? H1B is a non-immigrant visa in the US under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations (USCIS.gov). This allows companies to get skilled workers with market flexibility if they have a shortage domestically. H1B visas also allows companies to employ workers at a lower cost than those that would work domestically, with a large amount of them coming from India, according to Stephan Manning from organizations and social change. The H1B visas result in US employees being replaced and forgotten in some circumstances in favor of workers who are cheaper. According to Stephan Manning, two major shifts in employment of skilled workers…

Why did I avoided it? Well, I just wanted to be sure that I was going to go on the trip, any contingency could have happened. The true is that I had to go a week before finals to the consul of Haiti because they told me, on three distinct occasions that I needed a visa to go to Haiti. So, I actually had to miss class. The morning was gray, a traffic lady yelled at me, I missed the 8:21 am commuter train: I waited an hour for the following. I got to the consul in Boston, they made me take $10…

though I am doing right things. However, a few years later, I realized that I did lead them a wrong way. Now, I try to love my self first and make my boundary as focusing on myself. 2. How will you keep things in perspective? • You said, “God send you here.” When I had applied Columbia Theological Seminary in 2014, I did not have enough money to study abroad, my English was not good, and my parents did not support me to go study abroad. Even, a lot of people who applied the seminary in U.S.A.…

at least 70% of the time they have been in the country. In addition, they have to pay the expenses of the normal procedure to become a permanent resident and the taxes they haven’t paid. In exchange they will be granted all American benefits which if the qualify would include health insurance, right to vote, among others. However, immigrants who committed crimes, contraband and/or drug traffic should be deported. On the other hand, the benefits received while they were undocumented should not…

The demographics in the post 1965 era was not limited on the number of immigrants that could admitted in the United States from any country in the Western Hemisphere. The Hart-Cellar Act established a ceiling of 120,000 immigrant visas for the Western Hemisphere. The amount of 20,000 immigrants from Mexico was unrealistic in the 1960s. The number of immigrants was dramatic because there was not that many strict laws as now. During the 1960s it was a lot easier to receive a visa, so the amount of…

It is widely known that many people from other countries want to go to the United States, but what is not so widely known is that there is a lottery called the Diversity Visa Lotter run by the US government. Between eight to fifteen million people apply and only over 100 thousand people win. This information isn’t common because in the United States we are privileged enough to not have to worry about it, but for people like Abdi it’s there ticket to a better life in America. In the story, “Abdi…

available after the 8th anniversary of the publications of the regulations (MPI 10). For fees purpose, anyone that applies for blue-card status over the age of 21 is subject to a penalty of $100. Once applicants who have been blue-card holders for five or more years, they are eligible to apply for LPR status. There are two requirements that they must meet in order for them to do so. First off, they must average 100 days of work in agricultural type work for more than five years of their…

women come from Asia and particularly, China. According to Sophia Yan article, “how far Chinese moms will go to have US babies,” (03/30/2015, 3), she clearly explains how Chinese moms lie on their visa application with the help of an organization called You Win. The mothers are coached and they know exactly what to say to the immigration officers at the port of entry. The article further explains how You Win encourages mothers to apply for the tourist visa in advance so that they are not…

such as looking for a university with a good ranking but which my parents can afford, applying to a handful of universities so that if I don’t get accepted in one I’ll have some other options, and most importantly getting the Visa which I was most concerned about. Applying for the universities was pretty painful since it was a lengthy process. There was a lot of paper work, emails, sending hard copies of transcripts to the universities and many more that needed to be taken care of for at least 8…

My current personal goal is to continue attending Marlboro college. This is an intermediate goal since it fits in in under the rest of my life goals. Continuing to go to a college I am already attending might seem like an easy task but there are a lot of factors that play in this situation, both the ones I can and can’t control. First off, since I am not a U.S. citizen or legal resident, in order to attend college in the U.S. in general I have to have a student visa (F1). I have already taken…