You need a work visa to get a job offer in USA. To get a work visa you need a job offer. Is there a way around this?
The B… visas are short term visas - you cannot stay more than 3 months. Don’t try to stay longer (and DON’T work).\. the “Business” sub-classes allow things like lectures, conferences, symposiums, etc …The E… visa is basically the “Investor Visa” … if you invest enough in a US company, you can come and stay.The F… (and the M…) visas are for students (but allow some work) - you would need a University or College to work with you on this one.The H… visas (and the L… visas) are work visas. They exist to allow a US employer to find a qualified employee. Thus there is no way around it … you must get a job offer (at a minimum). The employer is the sponsor. if the person is no longer employed, they have 30 days to leave the country. (The sponsor must pay for the plane ticket of the employee, but not their family). The O… and P… visas are a special class of H visas granted to actors, athletes and similar famous people … but then again if you have that much money and fame, you would have lawyers for this!The I visas are for foreign journalists … and that’s generally not long-term.The J… visas are for foreign students to come on a short working visa (typically 6–9 months, sometimes up to a year) … you must be a student, and you must go home again.The Q… visas are for “cultural exchanges” - but basically this is the “Cuba Visa”The “Diversity Lottery”/“Green-card Lottery” exists … but as a lottery you could be waiting 20 years or more for entry.
My friend overstayed in c1d visa and now can he enter usa on h1 visa?
Actually, under US immigration law, he would have to have overstayed his visa by at least 6 months before he became ineligible for a visa for three years under Section 9B1 of the INA. If he overstayed for more than 12 months, he'd be ineligible for 10 years under 9B2. If your facts are right, he should be ok. He's only authorized to stay up to 29 days as a C1D, so check the math to be sure.
Complications with American visas - help getting my fiance to stay with me in america?
I'm in desperate need of advice. The whole process is so, so confusing. My fiancé is Australian. I’ve been in Australia for a while, and now I’m home and he’s going to come here. I want to know if there is ANY WAY he will be able to stay with me in America under our current circumstances. The first point to stress is that we cannot be apart. We will not do it. We cannot do it. So we need to find a way around it. The second thing to stress is that me going back to Australia is not an option. I have to stay here to be with my family. He doesn’t have ties with his family, so he is able to come here. I wish I could go there, but I just can’t do it. He’s coming here on the 30th of June under the visa waiver program (this is why we can’t do the fiancé visa, because I believe for that, he has to be in Australia and I have to be here). But the more I read into that, it sounds as though he can’t get another visa to stay while on that waiver program and may have to leave after 90 days. But we don’t want to be apart again and aside from the fact that I can’t leave here for an extended period of time because of my family and because of my job. Plus we can’t really afford two plane tickets. So my first question is, CAN he extend his visa or apply for another visa while here on the waiver program? What kind of visa can he get? The next thing is that he really, really needs to get a job here. We can’t afford to live without it. But I don’t see any viable work visa options. Don’t we have anything like Australia’s work holiday visa where you can just…. Work?? America’s visa options are terrible at best. He thought about doing a study program and getting a degree, but it doesn’t seem that schools will give financial aid and we can’t take out a loan and I don’t think the AU government will give him aid for getting a degree here. Does anyone know anything about that? Can he get aid in any way? We just need an option, any option, that: 1: allows him to stay here beyond the 90 days and 2: allows him to work while here. Please, please help. We don't want to have to be apart again.
How does one apply for permanent disability or benefits?
get the book "social security disability" from nolo press, at nolo.com, or see if you can get it at your library (maybe even thru an interlibrary loan?) It will give you a lot of background on how to apply, what criteria are used, and how to fill out the forms. You have to be profoundly disabled to get disability, and if you are relatively young and educated, it will be harder. But if you really can't hold down a job, and you can document that, you should get it eventually. You will almost certainly be rejected the first time, and the process takes awhile, so somehow you have to manage your finances in the meantime. Keep in mind that once you go on disability, you will never get off of it, no one does. You will be in poverty the rest of your life unless you marry out of it or a miracle cures you. The ways the rules are make you dependent on the system, so keep that in mind when you are deciding if you want to do this. A lot of people have no choice, because they can't work at all, or they can't keep a job with insurance to get their pills. but it's still humiliating in America to have no job-people always ask when you are being introduced,"oh hello, what do YOU do for a living?" which ends up being a very nosy question without meaning to. If you can get supportive help from social services (in my state, they will pay for support groups and a social worker to visit and help with paperwork) or tweak your meds some more, or from a local consumer group (google the words consumer, mental, and your state. Consumer=person getting mental health services) then maybe you won't have to go on disability. I'm on SSA myself, and need the medicare, so I'm not being judgmental, I just want you to know what you're getting into. Get the book I recommended, it will give you all the legal and inside information to see if you qualify. all the best to you! I hope you feel better soon!
Please help me with B2 tourist visa to H1b visa questions?
Hi guys, thank you all in advance to come here and help me with my visa questions. Please allow me to briefly describe my background and situation. I graduated from a US college and graduate school, and had worked in a major financial firm for two years under a H1B visa. However, a year ago, I returned to my home country to fulfill a one-year military service that is compulsory for male citizens of my country. The service is now finally over, and I would like to return to the US to work there. Since I have siblings in the US, I plan to go there on a B2 tourist visa. Once there I will go for interviews, and hopefully a company would be willing to sponsor a H1B visa for me. 1. Is it legal, or more difficult, to transfer from a B2 to H1B while I stay in the US? 2. Or do I have to return back to my home country and apply for a H1B visa here once a US company decides to hire me? 3. Will my B2 visa application be denied if I simply tell the immigration officer the truth, which is my plan to go for job interviews on the B2, but will make it legal by first coming back to my home country and reapply the H1B visa here? I agree honesty is the best policy, but what should I do to make it legally work? 4. I heard if the H1b visa quota is filled, I have to wait till next April to start working legally. Is this true? So this means even if a firm hires me in October, I can’t really start working till 7 months later? I’d greatly appreciate any advices regarding my visa problems. Thanks in advance!!
If I enter the US with a B1/B2 visa, is there a way for me to change it to a permanent residence status?
This is a very interesting question - one that I am certain many viewers have in their mind. Of course, entering on a visitors visa means that when you obtained that visa and upon entering the United States your 'intent' was non-immigrant - that is, your intent was and is to return home after your temporary stay; you've also agreed to abide by your visa's specific limitations and requirements. For example, B-1/B-2 status does not allow employment. That said, in the real world it is fully understood in the law that entrants after they have been here for awhile may have a change of mind about their stay. Sometimes people want to extend the status for a few more months, they decide they want to change their visa so they can attend school full-time, or occasionally visitors meet and fall in love and want to remain after marriage. To answer your question specifically, extending or switching to a new non-immigrant status is called a 'change of status' and applied for on form I-539. However, changing to a permanent resident category from B-1/B-2 status, if immediately eligible, is applied for under INA 245a 'adjustment of status' on form I-485. An example of this would be a subsequent to entry marriage to an American citizen. There are many more complexities here, including priority dates, visa petition requirements, maintaining status, but the main concept underlying all of this is that adjustment of status is discretionary - and with few exceptions, marriage to a U.S. citizen being one, one must be 'in status' when the application is made.