subject: Us Immigration - Getting Tougher [print this page] This year is undoubtedly going to be a very crucial year regarding US immigration. There are going to be a lot of reforms with regards to legislations like the Dream Act and Senators Grassley, Durbin's H1B visa, L1 Visa. This has been debated and we can say for sure that this year is surely going to be a year of ups and downs for US immigration.
Things are not looking all that good as it was in the beginning of the year. Even at that time, there was some hope that the Healthcare Reform Bill would somehow help things progress. Even at that time there was hope that the bill would pass the Senate in Congress and the House without further delay.
President Obama would have signed the bill into law. Under such circumstances, thanks to the divisive nature of the Healthcare debate, there are only two possibilities. Either it is going to turn out to be a bipartisan bill with limited scope or there is surely going to be a status quo situation that is going to affect the Americans.
So then how is the US immigration reform going to be affected? Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House who is all for the Healthcare Reform has made some cautious statements. She states that any controversial statements in the year 2010 would further aggravate the already existing problems.
The Immigration reforms during the year 2007 were still a matter of heating argument and even though the economic times were pretty during that period suffered heated argument from the houses of Congress. Even during that period, a bipartisan bill was introduced.
People who intend to take their spouses along with them need to apply for a separate visa. The first thing to do is to file the immigrant petition. The form I-130 needs to be filed for this. Once you receive the receipt of approval, the next step would be to visit the Consulate of United States and obtain the physical immigrant visa. The third step is the filing of EAD (Employment Authorisation Card). The next step is filing of your social security number at the office of the Social Security.
The next best option would be to use the non-immigrant visa (commonly referred to as a K3 visa). This is like a temporary visa wherein your spouse can accompany you and stay for a short period. While applying for the K3 visa, certain things need to be taken into consideration. The filing of the K3 visa application needs to be done at the place where the marriage took place. Hence the place of issuance of the K3 visa needs to be as is mentioned earlier. Once the formalities are completed, your spouse can accompany you and stay with you till the paperwork and formalities related to the actual immigration visa are completed.
The visa can be filed at the nearest US consulate. If you have children below the age of twenty-one, then you need to apply for a K4 visa.
The next step is to apply for the EAD card, which enables you take up employment in the United States.
