H1-B Visa Insight

P-3 Visa is meant for special Artists who want to travel to the US with their group for a performance event. P-3 Visa is a Non-Immigrant category Visa and thus the application to show non-immigrant intention.

As an applicant for P-3 Visa, you need to show your capability. Documents such as press reports, letters of appreciation by Media [Radio / TV Channels], photographs or media evidence of past event performance etc.

Get ready to perform as the Visa officer may ask you to do so. If you have visited US or any other European country for similar purpose earlier, then chances are bright you will secure a VISA easily.

According to news reports, Pfizer has shown the door to American employees and is replacing them with H1-B Visa holders as contractors from Indian companies - Infosys Technologies and Satyam Computer Services.

A Pfizer spokesperson said,

Pfizer has historically used third-party IT vendors from the US and other countries for software development, applications support and for daily IT-related functions. However, this procedure wasn't designed to replace local non-Pfizer personnel with those from outside the US.

Satyam said that it was mainly due to its core competencies in Pharmaceutical that is is getting contracts, while Infosys decided to stay mum [maybe didn't want any H1-B issues to be raised in times of global crisis]

We have received an e-mail as to what is a Fraud Interview ? Fraud Interview is most commonly used in the context of Green Cards. It is something where the immigration officer suspects that the marriage between a GC Holder / US Citizen and a foreigner is a false marriage entered into, with a goal to get a foreign persona a Green Card. A specialized interview is then conducted in which both foreign and US citizens are jointly as well as separately interviewed.

Does marrying a L-1 Visa holder and entering the US on L-2 dependent Visa and then divorcing the L-1 holder while in the US be suspicious ? Yes of course. First of all, Indian IT companies like TCS have misused this Visa to such an extent that the INS is scrutinizing the cases very carefully. What you are trying to do is known as alien smuggling and if caught, both of you will be in trouble. Besides, you are immediately inviting trouble for yourself with a legal divorcee in your records and face extended trouble during Green Card.