1. Goal
So many files since come to US, want to know related information
2. Passport
Question: how can every country validate each other’s
- Biometric Data, Bilatereal and multilateral agreement
- Manual Check
3. VISA
What?
- Endorsement or stamp. Grants the holder permission to enter
Relationship with passport
- VISA depend on passport
- Visa issued by the country you wish to visit
Name?
- VISA is from latin, meaning “paper that has been seen”
Finaiacal VISA?
- Recursive acronym for “Visa International Service Association”.
- short and work in about every language
F1: student visa, no immigration intent
- Intent could change
H1B: employer-specific
- dual intent
4. H1B
Status? related to visa but acctually refer to two things
- Visa: the stamp on the passport
- Status: once admitted into US, you granted a satus
- related to i-94
COS? Change of Status
- Switch to a different visa? NO, just switch to new status
- Get a new i-94
Status managed by USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)) of DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
- i-94 is issued by CBP (Customs and Border Protection)
- once entered US, the visa dormant and status takes over
Change of status, and get the VISA
5. EB2
- PERM Labor Certification
- PWD: ensure the foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages of similarly employed US worker
- Recruitment: demonstrate there are insufficient willing, qualified US works
- I-140: Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker
- classifies the foreign worker into a specific employment-based preference category
Visa Bulltin?
- Why name VISA? visa has two contexts
- Non-Immigrant: the typical visa, recorded on i-94
- Immigrant visa: first step of a green card
- If outside US, there would be a stamp on the passport and receive the green card in US
- If inside US, just Adjustment of Status and receive the green card