Thursday, March 26, 2009

Brief Introduction to Non-immigrant visas available in USA

Non-Immigrant Visas: This is a brief introduction to some of the non-immigrant visas available in the United States.

Temporary visas, also called non-immigrant visas, allow people to enter the US temporarily. There are many non-immigrant visa categories, each for different purposes and for varying periods of validity. Some visas allow employment in the US, but not all. Each temporary visa class is designated by a different letter of the alphabet. Below is a brief summary of most of the non-immigrant visa classes.

A
Diplomats & their dependents (A-1), other government officials or employees & their dependents (A-2); attendants, servants and personal employees or close relatives (A-3).

B
Visitor for business (B-1) or pleasure (B-2).

C
Alien in transit (C-1); in transit to United Nations Headquarters (C-2) or government official in transit (C-3).

D
Crew member (ship or aircraft).

E
Treaty-trader (E-1) or Treaty-investor (E-2) & dependents.

F
Student in academic program (F-1) & dependents (F-2).GGovernment representative to international organization.

H
Temporary worker as a nurse (H-1A), in a specialty occupation (H-1B), in temporary agricultural work (H-2A), or as a trainee (H-3); and dependents (H-4).

I
Information media/press.

J
Exchange visitor (J-1) and dependents (J-2).

K
Fiancé of U.S. citizen living abroad (K-1) and children (K-2); spouse of U.S. citizen living abroad (K-3) and children (K-4).

L
Intracompany transferee visa for executives (L-1A), managers (L-1A) and specialized knowledge workers (L-1B), and their dependents (L-2).

M
Student in vocational program (M-1) & dependents (M-2).

N
Relatives of employees of International Organizations.

O
Individuals of extraordinary ability in certain areas (O-1), accompanying member (O-2), & dependents (O-3).

P
Artist/athlete/performer of international recognition (P-1), in reciprocal exchange program (P-2), or culturally unique (P-3), & dependents (P-4).

Q
Participant in international cultural exchange program (Q-1); Irish Peace Process Program Participant (Q-2).

R
Religious worker (R-1) & dependents (R-2).

S
People who provide information or other assistance to U.S. law enforcement agencies.

T
Human trafficking victims who cooperate with law enforcement in the investigation or prosecution of human trafficking.

TN
Professionals (TN) and their dependents (TD) under NAFTA.

U
Victims of criminal activities such as rape, torture, trafficking, incest, domestic violence, prostitution, etc.

V
Spouse (V-1) and unmarried children (V-2 or V-3) of permanent residents who have been waiting (either in the U.S. or outside the U.S.) for permanent residence for three years or more under the family based second preference classification who filed by December 21, 2000.

Friday, March 13, 2009

David Bergman's 1,474 Mega pixel photo of President Obama's inaugural address!!

Truly amazing!

Please visit http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/

Nine-year old whiz-kid writes iPhone application!!

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - While most children his age sketch on paper with crayons, nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has a very different canvas -- his iPhone.Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple's popular iPhone.

His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in two weeks, the New Paper reported on Thursday.

The program lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone's touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone.

'I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw,' Lim said. His sisters are aged 3 and 5.

Lim, who is fluent in six programing languages, started using the computer at the age of 2. He has since completed about 20 programing projects.

His father, Lim Thye Chean, a chief technology officer at a local technology firm, also writes iPhone applications.'

Every evening we check the statistics emailed to us (by iTunes) to see who has more downloads,' the older Lim said.

The boy, who enjoys reading books on programing, is in the process of writing another iPhone application -- a science fiction game called 'Invader Wars.'

Source: Yahoo News