K-1 Fiancée or B-2 Tourist Visa: Navigating Your Path to Life in the US
A K-1 Fiancée or B-2 Tourist Visa is what most people consider the primary visa option when planning to reunite with their US citizen fiancé(e). Choosing between these two visas can be overwhelming since these are both nonimmigrant visas that allow you to travel to the United States and remain there for a specific period. […]
Immigration Options for Filipinos: An Update
Good news for would-be immigrants! Governments are slowly easing up on travel restrictions, so even during the pandemic, there are immigration options for Filipinos. While vaccines, “vaccine passports,” and “vaxications” may restore international mobility, the pandemic remains a variable holding up a new normal. For international travel “to come back,” more people must be vaccinated, […]
August and July 2020 Visa Bulletin
Have you been waiting for the August 2020 Visa Bulletin? To 3,620,240 visa applicants all over the world who are at the crossroads of their immigrant journey to the United States, the monthly Visa Bulletin is stuck at the traffic light. On Monday, the 20th of July 2020, about 8 PM GMT, the August Visa […]
You Can Now Call the USCIS
Do you know how to contact the USCIS? The US Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, is an important part of the Department of Homeland Security as it oversees lawful immigration to the country. If you are a US citizen or permanent resident or employer, you file petitions for foreign-born citizens with this federal agency. […]
The June 2020 Visa Bulletin and the 60-Day Immigration Ban
The Visa Office released the June 2020 Visa Bulletin around May 22, 2020. In the past, the Visa Office would publish the report between the 11th and 20th of each month. This Visa Bulletin report informs applicants of one of two things. That they can start processing their immigrant visa applications or that they should […]
How to Read the Visa Bulletin
To ensure that admitting huge numbers of new permanent residents will not overwhelm the economy of the United States, the U.S. government follows a strict visa allocation system. The U.S. Department of State reports the availability of immigrant numbers in its monthly report, the “Visa Bulletin.” Monitoring the Visa Bulletin is, therefore, useful if you are […]
Why Your U.S. Visa Application Could be Disapproved
A consul or migration officer can not disapprove of visa applications out of hand. There has to be, in fact, a basis for inadmissibility before a visa application is refused or denied. How an applicant is deemed eligible for a visa At the time of the interview, a visa applicant must qualify for the specific […]
How to Petition a Family Member to the US
As a U.S. Citizen or a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR), you may sponsor a foreign-citizen family member to live in the U.S. permanently. Learn how to petition a family member and the subsequent visa application procedure in this post. A Petitioner is the U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder) filing the petition […]
Immigrant Visa Categories in the US: A Primer
US immigration law allows people to live permanently in the USA under several categories of US immigrant visa petitions. US citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents, may file family-based petitions for foreign-citizen relatives. Employment-based immigrant visa petitions are those filed by employers. The first stage is to file a petition with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, […]
Overview of a US Fiancee Visa Petition
Marriage between a US citizen to a non-US citizen fiancée is a significant immigration matter. Fortunately, US immigration law allows US citizens to sponsor a foreign-citizen fiancée under the K-1 visa category. The sponsor may also include any of the fiancée’s children in the petition. Only adult US citizens may file a petition, though. However, […]
