Author: Meghana Guntur

DS-160 is an online non-immigrant visa application form required by US consulates for temporary travel to the United States and is submitted to the department of state. Each applicant – including children – must have their own Form DS-160 visa application.

DACA is an administrative relief program that shields qualifying immigrants who arrived in the United States as children from deportation.

Optional Practical Training (OPT) is temporary employment that is directly related to an F-1 student’s major area of study. The F-1 Visa (Academic Student) allows the applicants to enter the United States as full-time students at a recognized college, university, seminary, conservatory, academic high school, elementary school, or other academic institution, or to participate in a...

Employers who sponsor employees in the H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 visa categories are required to maintain a Public Access File (PAF) for each employee. As the name suggests, all PAFs must be made available for the public to review upon request. The PAFs have to be ready within one working day of filing the Labor Condition Application (LCA)

We have listed down some of the common mistakes Employees and Employers make during I-9 and E-verify

Employers must have an I-9 on file for every active employee hired after November 6, 1986. Employers must verify each employee’s identity and eligibility to work in the United States at the time of hiring. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services enforces this requirement and can impose civil fines and criminal penalties for failure to comply with the law.

Employment-Based Adjustment of Status is the path that many foreign nationals currently living in the U.S. choose to take if they have secured a job at which their employer is willing to sponsor their petition for a green card.

The coronavirus pandemic led to the suspension of U.S. visa services around the world. As restrictions start to ease, most U.S. embassies and consulates have resumed certain immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments. An applicant can schedule a US visa appointment anywhere in the world. If they are traveling and would need to schedule their US visa interview appointment in a third country,...

A green card is a legal document that allows immigrants to have permanent residence in the United States. Once you have a green card, you can apply for U.S. citizenship after 5 years, or 3 years if you are the spouse of a U.S. citizen, and only if you were a permanent resident during that time.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant work visa that allows United States companies to hire foreign workers for specialist professions that require a bachelor’s degree or higher. This can include jobs in IT, finance, engineering, architecture, and other fields.