You are on a vacation to the United States. But life has completely changed for you on this journey where you have met that special someone. Now that you have decided to get married! But what happens if you get married in the United States on a travel visa? Many people don’t know that a foreign nation who is in the United States on a travel visa is permitted to get married on that status.

It is not impossible to get the status of the travel visa changed. Ideally, the applicant is permitted to marry a citizen of the United States but then would have to return to his/her native country before the visa expires. However, it has to be ensured that your purpose was not to visit the United States only to get married and reside over there.

In order to get the status, the spouse of the foreign origin has to prove that his/her intentions were to spend a holiday and then return to their home. Getting married and intending to stay in this nation was not preplanned. Thus, the US authorities have to be satisfied in this regard.

However, before taking the plunge, here are a few aspects that you must consider. There might be chances that you might be denied a visa or the adjustment of your status. In such a case, what would you do? Many a times people are denied a visa for various reasons which include the lack of relevant documentation, health issues, bans imposed, criminal record and so on. Incase you are not granted a visa, would your spouse who is a US citizen move with you to your native country. It is important to consider this fact before getting married.

Once you are given a permit, you would not be allowed to travel outside the United States for a while. This would not be possible till the foreign spouse receives an advance parole/Green Card. If left without any of these documents, the US authorities would not permit you to enter again. And so, the process has to be started from the beginning.

Life in the United States might turn out to be quite different from that of your native country. You need to be physically and mentally prepared to cope up with culture shock, lifestyle, and extreme climatic conditions and so on. This means that you would have to leave your old life, family and friends to live with your spouse in the United States. Would this be acceptable to you?

Above all, you must remember that the travel visa implies only a temporary stay in the United States. In case, you intend to get married and reside in the US, the fiancé and the spouse visas are the programs to be applied for.

According to the Ministry of Immigration for France, about 300 Romanian nationals have been deported. Two planes carrying these people left France. This has come about in abidance with a program by the French government which decided to expel all those Romanians who were residing without valid documentation. One flight took of from Lyon which carried 113 Roma where as the other flight started from Paris with 157 people.

These people on the plane were admitted voluntarily. They accepted a compensation of 300 euros for each adult and 100 euros per child. When compared to 2009, about 8,300 Bulgarians and Romanians have been deported. About 10,000 people were removed from the nation in 2009.

As per the French officials, these deportations are a part of a much larger crackdown on illegal migration. More such flights are scheduled to leave in the next few days. In the last month, about 51 Roma camps have been cracked down as being illegal.

It has to be noted that Roma are a group which are mainly found in Southern and Eastern Europe with most of them living in poverty. They are commonly known as gypsies as they usually live in camps or caravans or other forms of informal settlements. If looked into the past, these people have always been the target of persecution.

The President of Romania, Traian Basescu stated that his nation would try to seek a solution to the situation in France. He said that they understand the problems that arise out of these camps when they are formed around cities in France. So the government would work with France to chalk out a suitable outcome.

Roma belonging to Romania and Bulgaria are permitted to walk into France if these people are citizens of the European Union. Post entering France, they should seek employment or pursue education or find a way to establish themselves in France or they would be subject to deportation.

According to the Foreign Ministry of France, two Secretaries of State from Romania intend to be in Paris to discuss about the integration of Roma populations. They also said that Paris is favors the social integration of the Roma residing in Romania.

The category of Farm Owners/Operators of the Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program is meant for those foreign nationals who hold experience in farming, along have sufficient fund to make investment in a farming operation or purchase a firm in the province of Saskatchewan. This category also includes a stream called Young Farmer which facilitates international young farmers and families to establish their lives and farming operations in Saskatchewan.

Below are few of the eligibility criteria for the Farm Owners/Operators category:

• Applicants must have a net worth of 500,000 Canadian Dollars.
• Applicants must supply signed agreement confirming the purchase a farm operation or land to start a new operation.
• Applicants must deposit a refundable good faith cash of 75,000 Canadian Dollars.
• Applicants must visit Saskatchewan for minimum of five working days and meet with an SINP representative.
• Applicants must make the visit within 2-3 years period before signing an agreement to purchase an operation.
• Applicants must provide documentation, including educational qualifications; experience; training; financial documents from their previous businesses.
• Applicants must also demonstrate that they have proper knowledge of farm operations.

For more information about the Farm Owners/Operators category of the SINP, contact an Immigration and visa Consultant!

USA has banned the adoption of abandoned kids from Nepal. It has been confirmed that the ban has been imposed; courtesy the increase in the number of child trafficking cases and incidents linked with fraud documentation cases.

Reports have confirmed that the ban is for indefinite period, but in some cases, the adoption may be performed where children were not abandoned but whose biological parents were eager or ready to abandon them. However, in such cases, it would be necessary to perform a DNA test on them which would be needed to prove the fact that they are their biological parents.

This step was implemented in order to protect the rights of the children from Nepal after it has been proved that the paper work used for the purpose of adoption as abandoned is mostly fake and do not have reliable evidences behind them. The same has been confirmed by a joint statement from the US Department of State and US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Also, it has been confirmed that the birth certificates which are shown as proofs contain data which are tampered in a major way. Also, the orphanage records are not matched properly with the investigations of children. Even such cases are also seen where parents are in hunt of their child who has been displayed for adoption under the tag of abandoned child.

Also, without reliable documentation, it is not right for the US government to perform the tasks further. Hence, it was apt to ban child adoption from Nepal.

It has been announced that the United States has now dropped the adoption of the Nepalese children due to some errors in the system which used to find out if these children had been deserted. According to a joint statement made by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department, it has been decided to give up the petitions regarding the adjudication of new adoptions and the aspect of visa issuance for these children. Also, most of the documents that were found regarding cases of desertion proved to be unreliable.

The spokeswoman from the State Department, Rosemary Macray said that all the cases have been frozen since the children whom the Nepal government had matched with families in the US were all abandoned.

More, it was quite a tedious task to contact the officials in Nepal whose names were mentioned in these abandonment report. With this, the officials from the orphanage as well as the police did not exactly cooperate with the consular officials who were trying to confirm the information which was present with the police and orphanage records.

So, it would be difficult for the Government of United States to carry on with the process an orphan petition minus the relevant documentation. According to Macray, there were about eighty such adoption cases which were still not confirmed before the suspension took place. All these cases were worked on individually.

A few months, the US government had alerted its citizens against adopting Nepalese children as there were many issues regarding the credibility of the adoption system in the nation.

The Prisons Department in Malaysia would execute a study to enhance the security at the Immigration Detention Depots. This would be done by increasing the number of experts and security officers. Datuk Zulkifli, the Director-General of the Prisons Department, these officers who have been deployed at the Immigration depots would look into the various requirements such as expertise, recruitment of personnel and other relevant measures that need to be implement at each of the depot. This has come about the government took a decision to deploy 3 officers from the Prison Department which would constitute of an administrator, a Sergeant Major or a Sub Inspector and an Assistant Administrator. These officers would be placed at the three Immigration Detention Depots at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

According to Datuk Lee Chee Leong, the Deputy Home Minister, the Prisons, Immigration and RELA would handle thirteen Immigration Department depots present in the nation. This would be done in order to strengthen the operations. The security and the detention aspects would be catered to by the Prisons Department. The Immigration department would deal with migration issues and documentation and the RELA would handle the security outside.

The above was decided upon after an incident where twenty Afghans were caught as victims of human trafficking. They fled the detention centre at the International Airport by cutting through the Security grills in order to open the gates. Post this, twenty immigration officers who were in-charge then have been suspended.

The above has made the authorities alert enough to take the instant steps and put into practice ASAP.

Australia being one of the sought after destinations for immigration, there are certain professions where in the nation seeks skilled labor from overseas. These occupations in demand are mentioned in the ANZSCO list. It is important to know that there are two occupation lists for those who intend to apply under the Skilled Migrant program. These lists are Schedule 3 and Schedule 4.

In order to apply under the General Skilled Migrant category, the occupation must fall in the Schedule 3 list. A minimum score of 120 has to be obtained by the applicant to be eligible. Incase the occupation falls in Schedule 4, the applicant has to apply under the Sponsored (State Nomination/Blood Relation) or under Regional Programs with a minimum of 120 points.

The occupation of a Developer Programmer is enlisted in both Schedule 3 and 4 which gives an option to the applicants to apply under any of the above mentioned categories. Below mentioned are some of the duties and responsibilities which a Developer Programmer would be expected to perform.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• The developer programmer has to research, analyze, consult as well as evaluate system program as per the needs and requirements.
• Maintenance, writing as well as upgrading of technical programs along with the operational procedures and the end user documentation.
• The professional has to write and maintain the program code as per the needs of the system, its design and other technical specifications with respect to quality standards.
• Identification of limitations pertaining to technology and other inadequacies of the existing systems and so on.
• Advising and guiding during the process of developing proposals and bringing out strategies for activities pertaining to software design such as financial evaluation and so on.

Apart from the above, there are additional responsibilities which the professional would be expected to perform.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or higher education or a minimum of five years of relevant work experience is a must.
• In rare cases, both qualification as well as relevant experience is required to qualify for the same.
• A vendor certification would also help.

If you are developer programmer intending to immigrate to Australia for better opportunities, write to us at ajay@abhinav.com to know more on the same.

If anyone out there is willing to immigrate to Denmark and engage yourself in a regulated profession there, you need to take care of certain things. Well, a regulated profession in Denmark is a profession where you have to fulfill a number of requirements, which have to do with your professional qualifications. If you meet those requirements, then only you are eligible to pursue that regulated profession in Denmark. If you have professional qualifications, either through education or work outside Denmark, you can get your qualifications assessed by the authorized agency in the land of Danish in order to pursue your profession there.

Here in this article, we will focus on the rules and regulations to which the non-European Union, as well as non European Economic Area applicants are entitled to in order to be eligible for a regulated profession in Denmark. Let’s proceed to them.

First, a non-European Union or European Economic Area national is required to file an application in order to be able to pursue a profession with the concerned/authorized Danish body. Along with the application the applicant must also submit other credentials that support his/her professional qualifications. Once the competent authority received the application and documents, it proceeds with further assessment of the qualifications and determines if that particular profession is recognized by Denmark or not. After this, the authority decides if the applicant can be awarded with a permit to pursue the profession in the country, which is called Authorization.

Learn about the application process

Before a person proceeds with the application procedure, it is recommended to check out the official website for the Danish Agency for International Education. Every detail of the procedure, as well as application form for various professions should be on the website. Although, some may not find application forms for certain professions. In that case, they can write to the authorized agency stating about the exact profession they want to be authorized for, along with the contact information for further convenience!

Credentials required at the time of filing application

Well, each and every regulated profession in Denmark requires different credentials. In this case also, prospective applicants are recommended to visit the official website of the Danish Agency for International Education. However, usually in most cases, an applicant is required to provide the competent authority with the following credentials:

• An application for the access to pursue a regulated profession
• A nationality proof
• Documents supporting the qualifications
• List of subjects the applicant has studied
• A certificate from the country is required where the applicant has been authorized as qualified for the profession
• Experience certificate on that particular profession

Apart from the aforementioned credentials, the applicants may be requested by the authorized agency to provide them with other details like, character certificate and a document that supports a clean criminal background.

Other details regarding documentation

• In most cases, credentials are required as certified copies, sometimes in original.
• The embassy in the applicant’s home country or authorized public organization must certify all the credentials.
• All the documents should be presented in original language. If not in original language, then in Danish or English translation.
• Certain credentials must be translated by authorized translator in the home country of the applicant, or by the country’s embassy/competent authority. If the credentials are translated in any other way, they must be certified by the country’s embassy.
• Not all credentials must be translated, for example, the passport.
• Two copies of every certified credential must be submitted.

After the assessment of the qualifications, the authorized Danish agency comes up with their decision regarding the applicants’ Authorization. If the competent authority gives a ‘Positive’ decision, then it means an applicant gets full access to pursue his/her profession in Denmark, with same terms as Danish nationals are entitled to.

A ‘Conditional’ decision implies full authorization to take up a profession in Denmark. However, in this case, the competent authority may ask the applicant to take up an aptitude test/supplementary training/an adaptation period in the land of Danish.

When there is a ‘Negative’ decision, an applicant is denied with authorization to pursue a regulated profession in Denmark. This implies that the applicant is not qualified for the profession he/she has applied for.

For more information on immigration related issues concerning Denmark, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

A fake Montreal Immigration consultant has been charged of sending undocumented applicants to various countries, hence faking out their immigration status to the government authorities.

He has been accused of faking out the unreal marriages of his clients and used to assist them in getting documentation for fake marriages, ignoring all the immigration laws that were decided by the Canadian government.

According to RCMP, it has been confirmed that the accused worked as an immigration consultant in various places including Montreal, to name a few. Richard Yalaoui, the man in question has been charged with various crimes, with conspiracy and allowing his clients to go for fake marriages being one of them.

During the process of arrests in May, six people were arrested and in the process of arrests, Jocelyn Levesque was one of the accused. The arrest was an integral part of a project known as Project C-Devancer. Reports say that these people hold connection with various crimes including producing fake documents and used to work with a criminal identity. They also produced some of the fake credit cards for the purpose of faking out.

These people who have been involved in various crimes may face charges such as producing forge marriage papers, tampering with credit card data, holding certain equipments which assist in committing forgery, and getting involved in fraud related crime.

Applicants are asked to stay away from such fake immigration expert and hire the services of an experienced and genuine immigration expert.

We all want that in our dream towards overseas settlement, no hurdle should come in our way. So, to avoid any kind of undue delay or problem in the application process, certain measures can be taken.  There are ways and factors which can facilitate your application process. They are following;

You must submit your documentation and information required with the submission of your application at visa office. Inform them about any changes in your residential area or any other information that is important to your application to the Canadian Visa Office as soon as possible .Please don’t keep bothering the Canadian Visa Office in relation to the status of your application.

Any kind of delay in the application process is not good , so one must avoid to make any careless mistakes like unclear photocopies of required documents or not submitting the translated version(either in English or French) of your original documents. Certain things like some medical condition or some legal problem (like criminal record or security problem, case regarding legal adoption) may force the Canada visa authorities to think twice before accepting your application.

H & C considerations

The ministerial instructions do not consider or favor any candidate based on humanitarian or compassionate request if his/ her application does not meet the necessary requirements and eligibility criteria under the three categories of Federal Skilled Worker class

Permanent resident status: On the acceptance of an application, you and your family members will be allowed the permanent resident visas. As legally permanent residents of Canada, you can move in and out of Canada whenever you wish to.  You or any of your family members can be a part of any educational institute in Canada. You can also avail the various facilities and social benefits given to any other Canadian citizens. But there are few limitations which you have to keep in mind like you can not vote in certain elections. You may not be eligible for certain jobs and your permanent resident status will be stripped off in case of any serious legal crime committed by you or any of your family members. You have to pay taxes and respect the country laws as any other Canadian does. All new permanent residents will be issued a card as part of the process. Your personal information will be available to CIC employees and not to anyone unless you don’t want to.

So, your destination is not far from you, if you keep certain things in your mind and follow them. With the emergence of various visa consultancy companies, the entire process has become very smooth and convenient. So, it’s recommended that you consider hiring the services of an Immigration and Visa Consultant!