With the legislative calendar days in the single digits for 2013, activists and politicians are positioning themselves for getting immigration done in 2014.
With the legislative calendar days in the single digits for 2013, activists and politicians are positioning themselves for getting immigration done in 2014.
The holiday travel season is here, and that means thousands of students and young people will be spending school breaks and vacation time in international destinations. Tourist destinations such as Australia, Japan, Ireland, France, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom offer a working holiday visa to allow tourists to work while traveling to pay for their tourism expenses.
Topics: Work-Based Visas, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog
This week we look at the E Visa, a temporary work visa for foreign nationals of certain “treaty” countries that have struck up immigration deals with the United States. You can find the full list of treaty countries on the U.S. State Department website (there are around 50 of them.)
Topics: Work-Based Visas, Immigration Blog
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Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Work-Based Visas, Immigration Blog
If your Adjustment of Status (I-485) green card application is pending, you may want to consider filing an I-765, Application for Employment Authorization Document (EAD), and/or an I-131, Application for Advance Parole Document.
Topics: Work-Based Visas, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog
With the clock ticking on the legislative year the chance for comprehensive immigration reform to be passed looks dim.
Early in 2013, the Illinois became one of the first U.S. states to pass legislation that would permit undocumented immigrant residents to obtain driver’s licenses. Eleven months later, the state is officially ready to start issuing new Temporary Visitor Driver’s Licenses (example at left) to undocumented immigrants in order to improve the lives and safety of everyone on Illinois roads.
Topics: Deferred Action (DACA) Updates, Immigration Reform Updates, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog
The D visa is a non-immigrant (temporary) visa for foreign national crewmembers on ships, cruise liners, and airplanes. Like the C visa, you must intend to depart the U.S. on the same vessel or on another vessel within 29 days. If you are a crewmember traveling to the U.S. to begin passage on a plane or ship, you would apply for the combination C-1/D (transit/crewmember) visa.
Topics: Work-Based Visas, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog
When the dust settles on comprehensive immigration reform and it becomes the law of the land, people might look back on this week as one of the most significant.
The December 2013 visa bulletin was just released by the U.S. State Department, and the news is a mixed bag for work and family-based green card applicants. The priority dates for the F2A family visa category, which was current in August, continue to stay put. All family-based green card categories besides the F2A and Mexico groups saw advancements in their priority dates.
Topics: Work-Based Visas, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog