With over 20 years of legal experience, the firm has been handling a significant number of immigration cases with positive legal outcomes. Clients come from within the United States and from many countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Services include family and employment-based immigrant visa applications, as well as non-immigrant visa applications such as, but not limited to, visitors (B visas), Treaty Traders & Treaty Investors (E visas), Academic Students (F visas), Temporary Workers (H visas), Exchange Visitors (J visas), Intracompany Transferee (L visas), and workers with extraordinary abilities (O visas).
Visiting the United States
A number of people from different countries come to the United States regularly. International travelers come to the U.S. for a wide variety of reasons, including tourism, business, medical treatment and certain types of temporary work.
If you are not a citizen of a Visa Waiver Program (VWP) country, you will need a U.S. visa to be able to visit the United States.
What are the types of visas?
The type of visa needed is defined by immigration law, and relates to the principal purpose of your travel. Before traveling to the United States, a citizen of a foreign country must obtain a nonimmigrant visa for temporary stay or an immigrant visa for permanent residence.
Visitor Visa - The visitor visa is issued to alien for several purposes. B-1 visa is for business, participate in business or professional conventions or conferences, or where an applicant will be traveling to the United States on behalf of a foreign employer for training or meetings. B-2 visa is for general pleasure such as touring, visit to friends and relatives, visits for rest or medical treatment, social or fraternal conventions and conferences, and amateur/unpaid participants in cultural or sports events. In most instances, consuls will issue a combined B-1/B-2 visa, recognizing that most business travelers may also wish to travel for tourist purposes.
Student Visa - Citizens from any country are welcome to apply as international students in the United States. You may pursue either full-time academic (F visa) or vocational (M visa) nonimmigrant student categories. For exchange visitors who will study in the United States, there is also the J visa classification. To be able to apply for the F and M visa categories, the applicant needs to be admitted in an accredited school in the United States and secure a copy of Form I-20 which will be issued by the school. Our firm can assist you and your dependent family in the visa processing application.
Work Visa - To be eligible for a temporary work/training visa (H classification) or intra-company transfer visa (L classification), the applicant must be a beneficiary of Form I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker, filed by the prospective employer and approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). H-1B visas apply to persons in a specialty occupation, which requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge requiring completion of a specific course of higher education. This classification requires a labor attestation issued by the Department of Labor. H-1C visas are for registered nurses, H-3 visas are for Trainees, and L-1 visas are for intra-company transferees. The spouse and unmarried children under age 21 of the H and L visa holder may be given H-4 and L-2 visas respectively.