Do you have a temporary work visa? Do you wish to bring your family to the US? Then check out the various visa options that are available to you!
Based on the kind of work visa obtained for a foreign national in the US, an immigration aspirant can bring his or her family to the US making use of the following visa options:
- Traders and Investors are provided with E-1 & E-2 visas, as they help boost the trade and commerce of the country, hence they are granted with a respective duration visa to stay in the US.
- F-1 student visa holders can sponsor their family and apply for F-2 visa.
- H-1, H-2 or H-3 visa holders can get their spouse and children with H-4 visa. The H-1 visa is for foreign nationals with specialized skills to work in the US up to three years.
- J-1 visa is work and study-based exchange visitor program visa. The spouse and children of this category can enter with J-2 visa.
- O-Visas are for people who are highly skilled in the fields of science, arts, education, business, athletics, or television industry. They are allowed for a short stay; they can bring their family with O-3 visa.
- National athletes participating for purpose of competition can enter US with P- visa; they can bring their family with P-4 visa.
All the legal immigrants applying for citizenship should undergo Immigration medical exam in order to obtain citizenship.
With reference to immigration when an applicant applies for adjustment of status he or she is required to go through what is called an Immigration Medical Examination. This exam can only be conducted by specially appointed Civil Surgeons; these are physicians appointed by USCIS, or the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Only USCIS approved civil surgeons are authorized to conduct the US Immigration Medical Exam.
A Republican has accused the President of the United States Barack Obama of hurrying a federal judge in Texas and goading him towards according a favorable ruling on the executive actions concerning immigration.
The Republican was quoted as saying that the government was trying to rush the ruling through the system as it wanted the judge to change his mind and illegally get the executive order amnesty granted. This, the Republican said, it would not be successful in doing.
It so happened that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was preparing to implement the President’s orders when it was halted in the month of February. The state of Texas happens to be one of the 26 states suing the White House over the ruling. 100,000 expanded work permits had already been granted to illegal immigrants before the ruling. Many attorneys have sharply criticized the move, as they argued that a federal court was misled by the administration, when new rules pertaining to the permit had taken effect. It was said that the Obama administration appeared to have gone on and issued the work permits, in direct contradiction to what they had reported to a federal judge during litigation.
The members of GOP stated recently that the US Government was easily fooled by fake asylum claims. The Republicans in the House pushed the way ahead for toughening the stand on criteria for all foreign families that seek asylum. This could mean that more mothers and children could find themselves in detention centers.
This move was perpetrated by last year’s spurt in the number of people who fled poverty and violence in countries in Central America, such as Honduras and El Salvador. Around 50,000 minors who were unaccompanied and 52,000 families were taken into custody as soon as they were brought to the United States.
Most Republicans blamed the President for his immigration policies, stating that he had conveyed a message to Central American countries that asylum was an open invitation to the migrants, and also that their asylum claims would be accepted. The Asylum Reform Act which was introduced by a Republican of Utah could raise the fear standard and reduce bogus claims. It could also secure the standard for release from detention under parole, so it would be difficult for the government to automatically release those who have been detained before their claims were proved authentic.
Officials from the Federal Government would have met up on Monday with two immigrant mothers who’ve been at the forefront of a hunger strike at a family detention camp in Texas.
According to leading advocates who were closely working with the detained families officials from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office were expected to talk to the mothers about their clam that they and their children were detained at the facility’s medical clinic to punish them for the hunger protest.
According to a Refugee and Immigrant Center 3 women were removed to the medical clinic on Monday, the first day of the hunger strike. Of these 2 women were held overnight with their children, and the others were warned they could lose custody of their children if they participated in the strike.
The hunger strike has drawn attention to the rarely checked portion of the network of facilities run by the government’s Immigration agency, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security.
More than 40 women were participating in the hunger strike. Some of the women claim to have been held for as long as 10 months; most of them have begun refusing food in order to protest the lengthy detention of their children. The women stated that they had come to the country to seek refuge and instead they were being treated as delinquents.
ICE officials are investigating the case.
