U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has redesigned the Permanent Resident Card, commonly known as the "Green Card".
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.
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".