Individuals who are issued U.S. immigrant visas outside of the country have to pay the new USCIS Immigrant Fee of $165 USD with effective from February 1st 2013, in addition to existing visa processing fees, before travelling to the USA.
If you are not certain about what you need to do, or what type of USA Work Visa to apply for, when bringing a non-US national to work for you, don't worry - this is entirely normal.
The United States L-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa which allows companies operating both in the US and abroad to transfer certain classes of employee from its foreign operations to the USA operations for up to seven years.
More recently the USA has entered into a number of Bilateral Investment Treaties with mainly former communist states, designed to promote investment but not generally conferring any trade-related immigration privileges.
President Barack Obama has said the same thing on many things except for the fundamental change of focus on middle class prosperity calling it `the true engine of economic growth,' while delivering his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday night.
As per a recent report the Top 10 companies benefitting from H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers."The data shows: Top H-1B users are offshore outsourcers," "based on the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data analysed, the major beneficiaries of the proposed increase in the cap would be pure offshore outsourcing firms".
For decades, high-skilled professionals from across the world, particularly India, have fought their way to US citizenship through legal immigration channels - a process that can take up to a decade or more. Now, Uncle Sam is making it easy. Fight your way - literally - to American citizenship and take the Oath of Allegiance in as little as six months.
The US H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa, which allows a US company to employ a foreign individual for up to six years. As applying for a non-immigration visa is generally quicker than applying for a US Green Card.
Most employment based permanent residence applications involve demonstrating that there is a shortage of US workers to fill the vacancy. The process of demonstrating such a shortage is called PERM Labor Certification