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The U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, India has announced that it will no longer process Immigrant Visa petitions. As of January 1, 2012, the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai will be the only centers in the country that will accept and process Immigrant Visas. For more information, please [...]

DS-160 form will replace NIV forms DS-156, DS-157, DS-158, DS0156E and DS-156K

As the form is web-based, the application can be revised and improved as necessary

For the many green card aspirants who were waiting with baited breath for the October 2008 Visa Bulletin, hoping for it to breathe new life into the retrogressed visa categories, it turned out to be a sorely disappointing beginning of a new Fiscal Year.
Who Got the Short end?
Nationals of India and China in the [...]

The October 2008 Visa Bulletin, released by the U.S. Department of State (DOS), spells good news for all EB-3 Skilled and Unskilled Workers from around the world except for India and China. The EB-3 category has been labeled “unavailable” for a couple of moths. While we had earlier predicted that October will ease the [...]

On August 20th, 2008 the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency made two announcements that will have huge impacts on the H-2B immigration – first to withdraw the 2005-issued proposed rule changes to H-2B program, and the second to introduce the new proposed changes to H-2B program.
The proposed changes for H-2B program [...]