Many of us feel that just by receiving a stamp on the visa, we have the permission to enter the United States. But we are hugely mistaken. It is understood to reach such assumptions, but sooner such myths are cleared, the better it is. Just because one holds a visa which is a legal door of entry into the United States is not a good reason enough to take things for granted. The final decision to grant you a permission of entry is made by the Department of Homeland Security and the US Customs and Border Protection authorities.

Once you land in the United States, you would be a part of the US-VISIT entry-exit program. With this, some of the candidates might even have to register with the Special Registration program.

After you have been given a permit of entry by the officials from the Border Protection, the Arrival-Departure Record which is the Form I-94 is added to your passport. All the dates pertaining to your approved visits would be entered in this form. This form is the only legal document which proves that you are entering the country lawfully. So, it is very important to carry this document.

The date mentioned in the form I-94 as your last day as a legal alien should be taken very seriously. This is because if you bypass this date, you would be residing as an illegal in the United States. So, you must leave the nation before this date ends. Incase you are eligible to get your visa renewed or get your status adjusted, you can avail the option if you wish to reside in the United States. However, if you overstay the expiry date, you would be committing an offence and your visa would be nullified. As per the immigration laws of the United States, you would be violating them.

Before you set off, make sure that you have all the relevant and important documents which you would have to produce at the Border Protection to the officials post landing. The Border Protection authorities have all the right to inspect and verify your documents. They might even check your luggage and other belongings. Also, you might even be asked questions regarding your reasons for travel and the purpose for entering the United States.

If you are being inspected, there is no need for you to be nervous. You have to understand that the officials at the Border are doing their duty which is to secure their homeland. With this, they implement the laws that are brought out by the federal authorities. There are chances that they might scare but these people are mere professionals whose main purpose is to protect their borders. So, do not take it to heart. It is suggested that you be patient with the entire process and you would soon be cleared.

To know more, it is best that you contact an Immigration and Visa expert who can give you an insight into such process.

The new visa requirements for Mexicans intending to visit Canada have been made tougher. This has directly left an impact on the number of tourists arriving in Canada, thanks to the stringent visa requirements.

For instance, daughter of a teacher (who was working on work permit and was employed in Houston, Tax) was intending to mark her visit to Montreal with her siblings and meet their parents. But when she applied for the visa, the officials informed her that she has to visit Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. in order to get the visas which are granted to residents of Mexico intending to visit Canada.

Therefore, the daughter had to cancel her plans and the parents had to fly back to Houston to meet their kids. It has been more than a year now that the daughter now managed to get her Travel Visa to enter the country while she was on her vacation back to her homeland.

This is the dilemma faced by all the Mexicans who are intending to visit Canada. They have to go through rigid visa regulations and travel here and there in order to get their visas. And above all, there is no surety as to how much time would be taken to get the visas.

If this is the case of known Mexican residents, imagine the case of unknown Mexican residents intending to visit their parents or relatives in Canada. How much they would have to suffer when they would be asked to show their documents and travel here and there in an attempt to get their visas.

Best would be to take advise from an expert Immigration and Visa expert (www.abhinav.com) and go about the process.

According to a recent report released by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), it has been confirmed that human trafficking has spread to a major extend when it comes to the level of prostitution in Britain.

Reports have stated that at least 2,600 are forcefully dragged into the business of prostitution at various places of England and Wales. For the very first time, the scale of prostitution has been identified in Britain.

In addition to these 2,600 workers, it has been noticed that 9,200 who at present are stuffed in various other UK brothels are applauded as “vulnerable migrants.” It has been speculated and in some cases confirmed that these immigrants are working against their wills, but it has not been made sure that they have been trafficked from some other country. The police, however, have confirmed that more than half of the women are Chinese, while others belong from certain South East Asian countries and from various parts of Eastern Europe.

In accordance with a project called Project Acumen, the study of last twenty four months show that out f 30,000 women who are working in prostitution, as long as 17,000 are overseas born.

Women are forced to get into this profession in order to pay their £30,000 debt-bond. On refusal, she and her family are often given threats that she has to work seven days in a week in a brothel and pay off her debts.

It is best advised that people intending to immigrate to other nations should take guidance from a legal Immigration and Visa expert to leave the chances of facing any such hassles in future.

Textile is a vast industry in Quebec. The industry not only provides ample job opportunity for the residents of Quebec but for thousands of overseas applicants who come from all over the world to make a career in textile industry in Quebec.

The best part is that so many companies, be it the ones working on small scale or large scale, are working in Quebec, hence, providing ample scope for people linked with this industry.

The industry deals with all those occupations concerned with the designing and manufacturing of clothing. In addition the textile industry is a term also given to business linked with the distribution and use of textiles.

There are so many firms linked with the textile industry in Quebec. Some of them are: Zebra Labels Ltd, Tricot Chemtob Knitting Mills Ltd, Global Metallisation Inc, and Gestion, J Remy Ltee, to name a few.

In addition, once started, people linked with textile industry can go on and have their own business in the concerned field. Start with a small opportunity and you never know when it can turn on big. People linked this profession have high scope of making a good career in the textile industry in Quebec.

For more information on the same, consult an Immigration and Visa expert (www.abhinav.com) and have the right guidance on Quebec Immigration.

Malaysia has recently cancelled its “Visa on Arrival” facility for applicants from India after forty thousand visitors from the nation “abused” it. The same has been confirmed by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyideein Yassin. This instance has provoked the instance of misuse of fake applicants, which is not new.

The irony is that the case of Indians abusing this scheme of VOA tops the list of all those undocumented immigrants from nations from South Asia and China, to whom the card has been offered. If reports are to be believed, this facility has totally been barred now.

The need was felt by the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Workers and Illegal Immigrants that this facility should now be completely barred, in order to cater to certain problems raised due to this facility.

The deputy minister went on to say that they have given flexibilities to so many countries. And it has been noticed that this facility should be revoked in order to further prevent the misuse of this facility. Apart from making this facility available to Indians, other countries like China, , Myan-mar, Taiwan and Comoros, to name a few, were given the facility too.

Reports say that Malaysia is a nation which is home to millions of Indians. Some of them are still facing problems with their “right to vote.”

To avoid any visa related scams or problems, it is advised to take assistance from a legal Immigration and Visa expert (www.abhinav.com).

A campaign has been launched in order to relax visa regulations for Indian shoppers who come to spend amazing amounts in London! In addition, reports say that millionaires from India come in huge number and are gradually becoming one of the upcoming trends of highest spenders in the UK.

The campaign has been termed as ‘The Visa-Ability Campaign.’ Speculations are in the wind that knowing the amount of people these Indian rich families spend in hot areas of UK like Oxford Street and Regent Street, to name a few, the amount is expected to reach 12 billion pounds as far as the next twenty four months are concerned.

Also, 2012 London Olympics are around the corner, so the expenditure would automatically reach its peak, giving a huge turn around in the UK economy. Also, people who love favorable exchange rates would appreciate shopping in the posh markets of London! And the population mainly comes from high end personalities from India and China.

The motto behind this campaign is to get more and shoppers to West End rather then they moving to other places to shop! The news is definitely great for all those people intending to come to UK on a tourist visa in the coming two years. Shop till you drop!

Predictors are speculating that the upcoming events in UK would boost the sales by a huge margin.

The story begins like this: The man is 45 years of age, and has an American spouse. But the story takes a turn when it took him a long span of as long as 17 years to convince the officials of Federal Immigration that his marriage to the American is genuine and not for the purpose of getting a green card. In short, the seventeen years old battle ran just for the sake of convincing the immigration people that the marriage is authentic!

Inderjit Singh, the concerned man is a cabbie. He entered the country in the year 1992, but was barred from getting a spousal green card under stringent marriage visa laws prevailing at that time.

The irony is that the couple was subjected to five interviews from the immigration officials, in addition to filing three additional petitions, but ended up getting failed every single time. Not to forget the time and money spent in this tedious process which has taken 17 years, but still have not reached its meeting end. The journey is till unfinished for them. The couple had to take loans and have almost spent 20,000 dollars on the whole cost spent on this immigration case.

The case states that the man didn’t even go to attend the funeral of his father in India, knowing to the fact that he would not be granted entry in the US premises again.

Reports say that this is not an exception as many cases have been reported which have caused couples to lie in a state of limbo.

With the introduction of new law in Arizona’s immigration, it has become a nightmare for Hispanics to continue to live in the state. New law enforced by the Arizona Immigration is forcing the Hispanics to look for other places to live. The current situation is so bad that they are flying from Arizona seven weeks before the law is enforced, that is on July 29th.

There is no definite figure which can tell exactly how many Hispanics have flown but the Hispanic dropouts from schools and colleges are quite large in number. The Balsz Elementary School District has the population of about 75% Hispanics and within a time period of one month only, around 70% of Hispanic parents have stopped sending their children to the school as said by District Superintendent Jeffrey Smith. The district has lost many of its Hispanic students and parents blame the Arizona’s strict law for this. Hispanics are moving towards other states and countries where they feel more accepted.

By the law, (as signed on April 23rd by Republican Governor Jan Brewer) a police officer could check the immigration status of the person if they suspect that the person is staying illegally in Arizona. People whose business is dependent on the Hispanic community are going into losses. Jorge Vargas is one of those sufferers who are not Hispanic but are greatly affected as their business is dependent largely on them. Jorge has an air conditioning business which mainly has Hispanics as their regular clients.

There are many illegal immigrants in Arizona who have been living with their families and working for more than 20 years. They would not want their families to be insulted by police and so have decided to leave the state and move somewhere else.  It’s mainly the illegal immigrants who are leaving Arizona with their families and this could mean that the chances of breach of law would be less, which quite an accomplishment is making their task easier as said by Paul Senseman, a spokesperson for Brewer.

If you are one of those people who are planning to start their lives in the U.S. and want to work in various fields like accounting, engineering, architecture, law or any other area, then you would needing a H1-B visa. The minimum requirement to apply for this visa is that you should have atleast a bachelor’s degree or any other qualification equivalent to that. Just in case you have a degree of foreign university, then your educational credentials will be checked and examined by the visa authorities. This is to make sure that you are meeting with all the necessary requirements to work there.

The responsibility of reviewing your credentials goes to the officers at the USCIS who would ensure that your educational qualifications or work experience is good enough to meet the necessary requirement to enter the U.S. territory. It’s not necessary that your credentials will be evaluated only on the basis of your educational degree, your work experience or practical training can also be counted.

Just in case, you do not have any bachelor’s degree or your degree is from some foreign university, then you have to show that your qualifications or work experience holds the value which is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree.

Showing the statement of your credentials means that you have managed to clear your college level equivalency test (CLEP) or your credentials are being assessed by some recognized office which is responsible for evaluating the educational credits of students coming from foreign land.

To know more, it is recommended that you get in touch with an Immigration and Visa Expert who deals with US immigration. Such a person would be acquainted with all the recent updates in this regard. He would be in a position to guide you through the entire process effortlessly.

Getting a H-1 B visa was a dream for many Indians a couple of years ago, since it gives them the green signal to live there great American dream, by working or setting up business in the United States. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency responsible for the issuance of H-1B visas has revealed that it has experienced a cut in the number of application it used to receive for H-1B visas last year. The agency fears that this year also the trend is likely to be followed, since it has received only eighteen thousand applications until last month for the country’s financial year which starts in October.

The fewer number of applications that the USCIS is receiving definitely indicates that the US is once again going to miss the expected number of H-1B holders. Indians in regular category are entitled to a total of 65,000 H-1B visas, while in the student’s category, 20,000 are issued. When we see the 3-year old records, we would be able to notice that the cap was exhausted within one day. During that time, the US immigration agency had to perform lottery for allotments when it received about 1.5 lakh applications for H-1B visas.

There are a number of factors that are accountable for the free fall of the H-1B visa applications. Some of them include, low wage rates; and high unemployment rates ever since the recession hit the world. In particular, petitions from IT professionals have fallen in a dramatic way. In fact, professionals from India with H-1B visas are no more interested in realizing their plans to prolong their stay in the US.

In 2009, prominent IT companies in India altogether collected only 4,762 approved H-1B visas, whereas the number was 20,530 in the year 2006, where TCS alone had collected 3,046 visas. They included Tata Consultancy Services; Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, as well as other arms of US-based organization, such as Cognizant. Moreover, only 4 Indian companies made to the top H-1B visa applicants in 2009, compared to 8 in 2006.