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From: taqi@masada.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Taqi Hasan)
Subject: Multiple entry H-1 from London
Organization: Novell NPD, Sandy, Utah
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:59:35 GMT



Hi guys!  I have a H-1 visa and am planning to go to London in December.
Does anyone out there have any experience getting a Multiple entry H-1
from London.  Also what documents do  I need to take with me and what 
are the risks involved.  I would appreciate any replies.

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: fagundes@iastate.edu (Alex Fagundes)
Subject: F1 getting married, what happens to F2??
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:13:07 GMT

Hi,
  A friend of mine whois here with an F1 visa is thinking of getting
married to a US citizen.  She also has two kids, I was wondering if
her children who are F2 will also get a green card or citizenship??
thank you very much...
From: parkes@itp.ethz.ch (Andrew Parkes)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Info wanted on I-130
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:29:56 GMT
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland


I'd appreciate hearing about *any* experiences that people have had with getting
an immigrant  visa for the spouse of a US citizen (i.e. the process that
starts with the US spouse filing the petition I-130).

Particular questions that come to mind are:-

How long does it really take? 

After the marriage, but before the immigrant visa is granted, is there any
problem with the "alien" being" allowed in on a B-1/B-2 visa? Does the "alien"
need to show proof of intention to leave the country again before 3/6 months
just like a normal tourist.

Given that it is easy to show that the marriage is not a "marriage of
convenience", then is the process just a formality or is there a real
possiblity of rejection?  If so what should one do to minimise the possibility
of rejection?

i.e. if you know any DO's and DON'T's about visas and marrying a US citizen
then I'd like to hear.

Thanks 

Andrew Parkes,              | E-mail: parkes@itp.ethz.ch 
Theoretische Physik,        | Phone: +41-1-377 2566      
ETH-Honggerberg,            |                           
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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: plk1@cec2.wustl.edu (Pam Kornreich)
Subject: Info on I-129F WANTED NOW!
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:07:46 GMT

Hello- 

I would like anyone that has any information about going 
through the process for a I-129F K1 visa- Petition for Alien Fiance.

I just mailed off my papers yesterday.-- some questions
I would like to know (from someone that has been through it):

How long does it REALLY take?? (I know what they tell you- but 
I wnat to know for real..)
What is the process for the Petitioner (ie the US citizen?)
Will I get notified of status?
Will my finace abroad be notified?
What is the interview (for the recepient of the visa) like?
What is the approved/denied ratio?
How difficult is it to get permission to work upon entering the USA?

Please- anyone with information about submitting a
I-129F Petition for Alien Fiance.  I would like to hear 
from you!!

Thanks in advance!

Pamela Kornreich- eager to get her fiance to the USA!

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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: ktong@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Tong)
Subject: Travel with Conditional "green card"
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Section 331
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:25:35 GMT


My wife received her conditional "Green Card" (obtained
by marrying a U.S. citizen, me).

We are going to travel back to Taiwan in October for 3
weeks for me to meet her relatives.  She has a Taiwan passport. 

Does she need any other documents other than the
green card and the passport to reenter the U.S.?

Anything to be gotcha's to think about?  Are there any INS 
reasons to prevent my wife from reentering the US?

Thanks.





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From: ramas@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (R. Ramasubramanian)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Leaving US when I94 in INS
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:21:09 GMT
Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM at Ann Arbor, MI

Hi everybody,

A friend of mine has submitted her I-94 to the INS for a B1 visa extension. 

She however plans to get back to India, when the I-94 is still with INS. It is
just a week since the I-94 was sent to the INS. She is interested to know if
she can leave US. If so, what are the info that has to be declared at the
Immigration check and what documents have to be produced so that she can
leave without any problems ?


Thanks in advance,

ram
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From: boaz@concerto.lcs.mit.edu (Boaz Ben-Zvi)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Visa lottery...
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:08:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Aug25.200858.2117
Reply-To: boaz@lcs.mit.edu
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT

In article <1992Aug24.191744.15452@cis.ohio-state.edu>, sisodiya@cis.ohio-state.edu (Sanjeev Sisodiya) writes:
|> I'm looking for information about the visa-lottery that I understand the 
|> state department runs every summer. 

The application for the current period has to be RECEIVED by 12:00pm
Friday, August 28, 1992, and MUST be sent by REGULAR mail. So there
is very little time left !!

|> (BTW I'm a citizen of the U.K - just in case it's relevant)

Citizenship does not matter here but the place of birth !!  If you were
born in a country where too many people wish to immigrate to the US
(e.g., India, PRC) then forget about the lottery.

-- Boaz

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Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 1992 19:31:51 EDT
From: Kayvon Z. Sadeghi <KSADEGH@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: F1 <=> no money

hi guys

I have a friend who is in F1 status. He is facing some financial problems
right now and is unable to pay his tution. Can he just skip this semester
and register for next semester? How does INS deals with him? And more
importantly, how is he supposed to deal with them.

Any help is appreciated
k1
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: nevin@ozma.cis.ohio-state.edu (Nick)
Subject: practical training
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:38:30 GMT


Hi,
	I need some advice concerning the following scenario. Maybe
someone has had a similar experience.

Currently I am in the US on an F-1 visa working towards a PhD. I have
been here 4 years now. My advisor is returning to Germany to take a
position at a University there. Suppose I go to Germany to continue
studying with him, staying registered at the US university. I return
to the US later to graduate (within a year hopefully!). The question
is can I now still convert to a practical training visa or will my
being out of the US for some time cause problems. A related question
is how long after graduating can one wait before converting the F1 to
practical training.

Thanks,
	Nick.

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From: alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Work on-campus for J1 visa holders?
Date: 27 Aug 92 08:44:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU


I have a question about the J1 status that I'd appreciate if anyone can give
me the answer to.

Are students with J1 visas who are sponsored by their home contries allowed to
work on campus?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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alansar@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: sonecha@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Vatsal P. Sonecha)
Subject: Looking for an immigration lawyer in the Detroit Metro Area
Organization: Integrated Software Technologies, Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:00:40 GMT

If anyone is looking for an immigration lawyer in the Detroit Metro Area,
please send me email. A couple of friends in the area have had a very
lousy experience dealing with a local immigration lawyer. The person 
offers the cheapest deal around but the person is understaffed, slow,
and inaccurate. So please send me email with your name, address and
phone number, I will let you know who this person is. I don't think it
would be appropriate to bash this person publically (although, my
victim friends feel otherwise).

-Vatsal.


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From: stella@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ricky "Suave" Stella)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Re: Visa Lottery.
Date: 4 Sep 92 06:05:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

bernard@sirius.gte.com (Bernard Silver) writes:


>> 4) Do you know anyone who has got his/her green card in a lottery?
>> What is the procedure after you have have been 'selected'.

>Our nanny sent in 500 applications.  (This year you can only send one).

On the first lottery, I sent only 1 application...

I got it...


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From: sutton@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen Sutton)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Book Info Needed
Date: 2 Sep 92 08:57:42 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

I heard of a book called something like 'Getting into the USA' which
gives details of visa requirements, application procedures, etc. Can
anyone give me more info on this book or others like it

Thanks in advance.


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From: avk@hafnium.cchem.berkeley.edu (Tony Konashenok)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: 5 years for citizenship - when does this term start?
Date: 1 Sep 1992 20:56:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: hafnium.cchem.berkeley.edu

Does the five-year term for obtaining citizensip start upon
obtaining the immigrant status or upon entry into the U.S.?
(What happens if I stay for 5-6 years as a nonimmigrant and
then change my status)?

How about the same for a green card?

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From: rajiv@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Rajiv Arora)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Re: Green Card : Will Employment 2nd Preference become current again?
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:14:42 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <8+pyc2q@rpi.edu> nittab@aix.rpi.edu (Bhima Nitta) writes:
>In article <78351@ut-emx.uucp> rajiv@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Rajiv Arora) writes:
>>
>>There is hope in the current situation. While the 2'nd preference is backed up
>>to 6/15/90, the 3'rd preference (category E32) is still current. Since
>
>This is rather surprising. I had the impression when I called up INS a couple
>of weeks back that the 3rd preference was backed up to '87 !?!
>
There are actually three sub-categories in the 3'rd preferences. I was
referring to category E32, which is designated "professionals". The other two
are "skilled worker" and "other worker". E32 was current in August, but I
believe it is backed up in Sept.

Hope this clarifies things.

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From: sbale@netcom.com (Swamy S. Bale)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Need help in H-1 information
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:03:42 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Hi everybody,

My friend is currently being employed in a company. Starting from Oct. 
another company is taking over. He is currently on a H-1 visa and 
his company has agreed to sponsor him for green card. If he starts the
green card process now and new company takes over, will there be effect 
on his GC process or on his H-1 visa? Is it a good idea to wait until
the take over is complete? 

Also wondering about the h-1 visa after the new company takes over?

I would appreciate any inputs regarding this matter.


Thanks

swamy s. bale.
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: rroy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Raja R Roy)
Subject: a question for visa gurus
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:40:44 GMT


     Suppose a student and his wife come to USA on F1 and F2 visa.
After they come here they have a kid. I think the kid will be a 
U.S. citizen.
    My question is : will the parents get green card becuase the kid
is a U.S. citizen.
  or say, the student is not able to find a job after getting degree.
Will the father or mother get a work permit, because they have to take 
care of the kid or they have to go back to their home country after
one year.
   Will having a kid here make it any easier for the parents to get
H1 or green card or citizenship.

Please reply on net or by email.

Raja 
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.german
From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Subject: Re: transit visa for Germany
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:54:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.184837.131495@ua1ix.ua.edu> ngopalas@ha24.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy) writes:
>I agree. Instead just do not take a flight through Germany at all.

Well said. Perfect solution.

Avoid Lufthansa and Northwest (the latter has a policy of confiscating
the passports of south Asian travellers and returning them only after
landing at the destination, apparently as a way of proving to the INS
that they had inspected the passengers' passports).

There are several choices of airlines, many of which have excellent
service and pass through airports where they are glad to have your custom.

Singapore Airlines comes to mind. So do KLM and British Airways.
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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: dwa@ossi.com (David W. Abbott)
Subject: Re: Multiple entry H-1 from London
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:49:03 GMT

taqi@masada.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Taqi Hasan) writes:



>Hi guys!  I have a H-1 visa and am planning to go to London in December.
>Does anyone out there have any experience getting a Multiple entry H-1
>from London.  Also what documents do  I need to take with me and what 
>are the risks involved.  I would appreciate any replies.

Well, the best way to do it is through a travel agent (Thomas Cook, American
Expresse Travel Service, etc.) or through special visa places (The Visa Shop,
under Charing Cross BR Station).

BUT

whereas turnaround is normally about a week, over Christmas it can be up to
3 weeks. So if you are going to do it, get to one of the above places early
on the first day of your stay ! Well, phone them first and see what the deal
is. They get couriers to take the applications over on certain days of the
week, and pick up approved ones.

If you can't do the above, you have the unenviable task of queueing at the
US Embassy. And at Christmas this is not good, and very cold. One thing
you can do is phone up several weeks before you go to London and book an
appointment with the Embassy, that way you get to stand in a slightly shorter
queue, and get in to the Embassy much quicker :-}

As for things to take, your immigration lawyer should know, but from what I
can remember you need the originals of any documentation received from your
lawyer i.e. H-1 petition form.

You'll need a visa application form (although both the embassy and travel
agents can provide you with one of these).

A passport-style photo (possibly 2, I can't quite remember).

Good to have a letter from your employer, on company-headed paper, saying
who you are, what exactly you do, how much you earn, etc.

Oh yea, and your passport :-) 


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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us,soc.culture.hongkong
From: kkc@hel.cs.wayne.edu (Kwok K. Chan)
Subject: Immigration Question
Organization: Detroit, MI
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:27:53 GMT

I have an interesting but confusing question about applying the
US citizenship.

Case a: immigrate to US via employment/business/non-marriage, one would
        qualify to apply the US citizenship after 5 years

Case b: immigrate to US via marriage (with a US citizen), one would
        qualify to apply the US citizenship after 3 years

Question:  What if one immigrates to US as Case a, then married a US
           citizen shortly after getting the PR (green card), how many
		   years should that person have to wait in order to qualify
		   for the citizenship application, 3 or 5 years?


Anyone has any idea?

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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: kulki@cs.toronto.edu (Dattatraya Kulkarni)
Subject: H1 from Canada
Keywords: H1
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: usa, canada
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:45:51 GMT


I am sorry if this is a FAQ; I am new to this group.

I have a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Computer Science
dept at Univ "A". I also have a similar offer from
a well renowned computer company's research labs,
call it "B". My status currently is a work permit
in Canada, which expires in October. Citizenship is
Indian.

1. Should I get a J1 or H1 visa. General belief seems to
be that H1 is much better.

2. Does the employer A or B apply for you or you apply 
on your own? What are the documents you require?

3. Can an H1 visa be refused, even when you have an
offer in hand?

4. How long does it take to get the visa -- from the
date you apply to start working?

5. I have a B1 visa right now, does that help/come 
in the way? (B1 was given to attend the conferences
and meet relatives). Supposing visa gets delayed, 
can I stay in US as a visitor till H1 comes thro 
(B1 is valid for another 6 months). 

6. Does it matter which I choose, A or B as employer.

Please send mail, I will summarize the responses,
if others find it useful.

--kulkarni (kulki@cs.toronto.edu)
  Dept of Computer Science
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.german
From: smsriv@melkor.lerc.nasa.gov (Rakesh Srivastava)
Subject: Re: transit visa for Germany
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:09:34 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.181112.8553@oakhill.sps.mot.com> fmbutt@engage.sps.mot.com (Farooq M. Butt) writes:
>Frank writes at length about why Germany's transit visa policies are 
>not fascist.  Well, I agree.  What they are is unbelievably stupid and 
>rude.  For all of Germany's great wealth and magnamity, it is happy 
>to sit back and suck US $50.00 from every poor 3rd world Joe Shmoe who 
>has the misfortune of passing thru Flughafen Frankfurt Main.  This is 
>highly selfish and inane when the whole issue could be solved by 
>simply creating a cordondoned-off transit area where 3rd worlders (and 
>others) could catch connecting flights.  The rationale as Frank puts 
>it is very weak: first Germany builds a haphazard airport where one
>has to exit the transit area to catch connecting flights AND creates
>an asylum policy that is geared towards bringing over commie-defectors 
>(i.e. it's super-easy to get into Germany) AND then tries to solve the 
>problem by making 3rd Worlders suffer.
>
>fmb

It is not the airport that is the reason. As far as I know both US and 
Canada require transit visas even if you are simply transiting through.
Both US and Canadian airports have transit lounges. So the motive has
to be something else for requiring transit visas. As somebody else pointed
out, it is the easy asylum laws of these countries that might be the reason.

Rakesh
smsriv@lerc.nasa.gov

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>relationship to reality. If any reality correspondences are found, please 
>notify me IMMEDIATELY. Any threats, abuse or stupidity of any kind is purely 
>UNintentional. These are MY Opinions NOT my employer's.


Newsgroups: alt.visa.us,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.german
From: fmbutt@engage.sps.mot.com (Farooq M. Butt)
Subject: Re: transit visa for Germany
Organization: Motorola RISC Software, Austin, TX
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:11:12 GMT

Frank writes at length about why Germany's transit visa policies are 
not fascist.  Well, I agree.  What they are is unbelievably stupid and 
rude.  For all of Germany's great wealth and magnamity, it is happy 
to sit back and suck US $50.00 from every poor 3rd world Joe Shmoe who 
has the misfortune of passing thru Flughafen Frankfurt Main.  This is 
highly selfish and inane when the whole issue could be solved by 
simply creating a cordondoned-off transit area where 3rd worlders (and 
others) could catch connecting flights.  The rationale as Frank puts 
it is very weak: first Germany builds a haphazard airport where one
has to exit the transit area to catch connecting flights AND creates
an asylum policy that is geared towards bringing over commie-defectors 
(i.e. it's super-easy to get into Germany) AND then tries to solve the 
problem by making 3rd Worlders suffer.

fmb
 
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Standard High-Tech Disclaimer: NOTHING  in the above article has the slightest 
relationship to reality. If any reality correspondences are found, please 
notify me IMMEDIATELY. Any threats, abuse or stupidity of any kind is purely 
UNintentional. These are MY Opinions NOT my employer's.