U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing for all H-1B visa extension of stay petitions. Premium processing is now available for all types of H-1B petitions. H-1B visas provide skilled workers for a wide range of specialty occupations, including information technology, engineering, and mathematics. When a petitioner requests the agency’s premium processing service, USCIS […]
Category Archives: H1 Program
Apply for EAD and Social Security Number Simultaneously
From the Desk of Sheela Murthy Form I-765, which is used to apply for an employment authorization document (EAD), now provides the option for the applicant to simultaneously apply for a Social Security number (SSN). In an announcement released on October 2, 2017, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) explains that it has entered […]
What you need to know about H1 Visa
Are you planning to work in the USA? Read on to learn more about H1 visa, eligibility, and how to apply. The H-1B Visa is for foreign professionals who are sponsored by a U.S. employer to work in a specialty occupation in the U.S. An H-1B visa is generally valid for three years and can be […]
US Temporary Worker Visa Categories
Temporary (Nonimmigrant) Worker Classification Nonimmigrant Classification for a Temporary Worker Description Nonimmigrant Classification for Dependant Spouses and Children of a Temporary Worker CW-1 CNMI-Only transitional worker CW-2 E-1 Treaty traders and qualified employees. E-13 E-2 Treaty investors and qualified employees. E-23 E-2C Long-term foreign investors in the CNMI […]
Check your immigration application Status Phone Numbers
The Immigration Information Network A Service of the India Net Services, Inc. Public Inquiry Numbers to Check Status INS’s Nebraska Service Center (NSC) has jurisdiction over the following states: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.NSC also has jurisdiction […]
Violation of Human Rights as Narrated by RAID Victim in San Antonio, Texas
India Network – INS Raid Victim Tells the Story Violation of Human Rights as Narrated by a INS RAID Victim in San Antonio, Texas, USA Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:56:39 -0800 (PST) From: Victim Victim This mail is from the victim of INS San Antonio Raid. Please look into this mail as fellow INDIANS. […]
American dream on hold for Indians Couple arrested in base raid last week
American dream on hold for Indians Couple arrested in base raid last week (Last updated Thursday, Jan 27, 2000) By Sig Christenson Express-News Staff Writer Venugopal Sabbani and his wife, Rajshree Row, now five months pregnant, came to the United States to work and, perchance, to dream. But their tranquil, relatively obscure lives as computer […]
U.S. Government regrets ill treatment of Indian programmers
U.S. government regrets ill treatment of Indian programmers January 27, 2000 The Clinton Administration has expressed “deep regret” over the treatment meted out to 40 Indian computer programmers working at a U.S. Air Force base who were handcuffed and paraded like common criminals after being arrested in an immigration raid. Assistant Secretary of State for […]
Nabbed Indian software engineers fear uncertain future in America
Nabbed Indian software engineers fear uncertain future CHICAGO: Forty Indian software programmers say they were “completely shaken” by their arrest and humiliation by US immigration authorities from an air force base in San Antonio, Texas and apprehend an uncertain future in the country. Speaking on condition of anonymity, they also said they were “apprehensive of […]
Arrested Indian software engineers being treated like common criminals
Arrested Indian software engineers being treated like common criminals From Shyam Bhatia DH News Service WASHINGTON, Jan 26 It is a travesty of natural justice that 27 Indian computer professionals are being treated as common criminals by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) which has confiscated their driving licences and told them they are […]
