On November 26, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published its final regulation for Special Immigrant and nonimmigrant religious workers (R-1) visa categories. The new rules have been specifically designed to detect and deter fraud in these visa systems. The R-1 Visa category had become a hot bed of fraud owing to [...]
Posted on December 04th, 2008 in Articles
Tags: R-1 Visa
Posted on May 02nd, 2007 in Articles
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have proposed changes to the existing rules of the Religious Worker Visa category. The new rules are focused on mainly two things; first, to remove any opportunity for fraud and second, to streamline the program.
Why USCIS is changing the current rules?
The Religious Visa category has been under the investigation [...]
Tags: R-1 Visa, Religious Workers
Posted on October 19th, 2005 in Articles
R-1 is a nonimmigrant visa issued to foreign nationals in religious occupations who perform the duties of a religious worker in the United States.
Currently, there are no quotas imposed on R-1 visas and their processing takes three to ten weeks. In order to qualify, the individual must have maintained a membership in a recognized [...]
Tags: R-1 Visa, Religious Worker

