What will get your Immigrant Visa rejected? Certain requirements and activities can cause a…
What will get your Immigrant Visa rejected?
Certain requirements and activities can cause a visa to be unobtainable for an applicant.
For reference, drug trafficking;
overstaying a former visa;
and filing false papers are examples of such ineligibility.
If you are not qualified for a visa, the consular officer will contact you and remind you if you have access to a waiver of ineligibility and what the waiver procedure is.
What are the Employment Visa Fees?
Each applicant to be able to apply and get their Visa issued must pay the required fees for the Employment Visa.
The required fees are:
Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker,
Form I-140 or Special Immigrant,
Form I-360; the DS-260 Form;
required vaccinations and medical examination;
other fees might include:
photocopies,
translations,
birth or police certificates and travel expenses to the U.S. Embassy/Consulate.
How much do you need to pay for the Immigrant Spouse Visa?
Keep in mind that besides the visa fees, you might also have to pay extra for translations, certificates, medical examinations, etc.
When it comes to the Immigrant Spouse Visa specifically, then you need to pay for the petition fee which is 535 dollars and the Visa application fee to process DS-260 which is 325 dollars!
Most immigrants lived in 20 major metropolitan areas, where most of them resided in New York, Miami and Los Angeles areas.
These 20 metro areas had almost 30 million immigrants which make up more than 60 percent of the total foreign-born population of the country.
Who is eligible to apply for the Immigrant Visas?
The people who are eligible to apply for the Immigrant Visa are either people who have a relative or employer that can sponsor the applicant by filing an application with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or the applicant is an extraordinary worker or investor who can apply on their behalf.
Required Family Visa documents?
As a Family Visa applicant you need these documents:
a valid passport,
I-130 Petition from your Sponsor,
two 2×2 pictures of yourself,
police certificates,
other civil documents,
birth certificates,
Form I-864 which is an Affidavit of Support and medical examinations.
You need to submit the I-130 Form first, send it to NVC for processing, if it gets accepted you need to pay the fees and get the I-864 Form. After that you gather your financial documents and apply online and fill the DS-260 Form.
After applying online, together with your financial documents you gather and scan your civil documents as well and apply for the interview you need to schedule with the Embassy/Consulate beforehand.
Why are there so many Immigrant Visa applicants in the US?
Thousands of citizens around the world apply every year for a visa to enter the US.
Many of them want to immigrate to the US. The reason why there are so many immigrant applicants are for:
better opportunities to find jobs,
better living conditions,
better education,
to be with their spouse/family and to escape their troubled home country.
