Visa Research Papers Samples For Students

ABSTRACT

Career plans are a vital requirement for students pursuing higher learning. With respect to international students in the United Kingdom, there are numerous factors that influence career planning, with a significant consideration on the role that the post study work visas play in such scenario. This research identified whether most of the international students in the United Kingdom have a career plan. In addition, the study also identified the kind of the career plans they have and their viewpoint regarding the post study work visa. The participants in this research involved a sample of 50 students from the Kaplan International College London as a ...

US Immigration Bill: Pros and Cons

Immigration reforms is a political terms used while discussing the immigration policy of a nation. In the United States, immigration reforms are used to promote guest worker legal immigration while taking steps to eliminate illegal immigration. It was during the year 1986, when the Immigration Reform and Control Act made it illegal for the organizations in US to recruit or hire illegal immigrants but the act never worked on existing non-immigrant visa system programme for low skilled work force which allowed around 12 million undocumented work force to enter United States. Since then there has been demand for a strong immigration bill in ...

Abstract

The onset of immigration had long been a part of American history since its discovery in the 1600s and had shaped the country’s society and government throughout the years. In the early years, America had gladly opened its doors to the world without restrictions and some aided in the liberation of the country from English rule and into independence. However, as the years progressed, restrictions were imposed by the government due to the fear of these immigrants and eventually, due to the onset of illegal immigration. Reforms left and right were implemented to sustain America’s security, economy and ...

The ‘gang of eight’ unveiled a comprehensive immigration reform in April 2013 aimed at dealing with the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States and putting a halt to illegal immigration. The proposed bill by the group included the DREAM act principles to give assistance to immigrants who entered the US illegally when young, provisions for enhancement of border security and a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants. The effort of these eight members should indeed present a political desire of solving the immigration menace in the US, though this reform should take into consideration past experiences before ...

This paper explores the impact of immigration policies on immigrant and refugee communities in Canada under the temporary foreign workers program, and how it poses challenges and problems of immigration and refugee in Canada. This article offers insights on the nuances of poor and the underprivileged people, especially in the context of foreign workers. Further, this paper examines the implementation of immigration policies on immigrant and refugee communities in order to analyze the problems and solutions of immigration and refugee, and their inter-relationships. This policy plays a key role in empowering and redefining the life of people and their future ...

Introduction

There was a time when USA was far ahead of its competitors in innovation but in recent times the trend has seen a steep decline. Not only in innovation, America is also falling behind other countries in the area of high skilled workers literate in math, science and technology. There was a time, not long ago, when "the United States set the pace as the world’s leading innovator: from the personal computer to the internet, from Wall Street to Hollywood, from the decoding of the genome to the emergence of Web 2.0" but slowly it is "losing its innovation edge" (Kao ...

H-1B Employment Visa

Attainment Process
The process of obtaining H-1B visa is comprised of 10 stages based on the general visa application guidelines. First the sponsoring company will have to file a petition on behalf of the employee. The USICS stipulates that the sponsorship letter should provide information about the position in which the employee being hire by the company, employment dates, duties corresponding to the job position and information about the immediate supervisors and co-workers of the employee being hired. The next step is to justify the prevailing wage. A special form from the State Employment Security Agency will be accomplished ...

The U.S.-Saudi association is one of U.S most significant, complex and enduring bilateral connections in the Middle East. It has been experienced by many concerns, including the Arab-Israeli conflict, oil policies, and conflict with Iraq. It is important for Capital markets to have a regulation in order to provide guidelines for investors who are willing to venture into any business.

The importation of various articles in Saudi is either forbidden or necessitates special approval from knowledgeable authorities. Additionally, importation of products like: live animals, agricultural seeds; frozen and fresh meat; periodicals, books, tapes and movies; chemicals, religious books, pharmaceutical products; ...

I. Introduction

More and more foreigners contemplate to retire overseas. They want to retain their citizenship but they want to retire abroad. This idea is enticing. Financial consideration is the main concern. Others include the political conditions in the targeted retirement destination, taxes, cost or standard of living, among others (Todd, 2010). They eye overseas retirement as they want to enhance the value of their retirement money.
In this case, they need to carefully assess their options. For instance, Americans who want to retire in cost effective, exotic place should address many financial planning issues, including taxes, insurance, investments and ...

Introduction

Immigration law deals with the state administration policies which direct the occurrence of immigration to their nation. Illegal immigration is the movement into a country in contravention of the immigration laws of that authority. Illegal immigration brings about many economical, political, and social matters and has developed into a basis of chief controversy in the developed nations and the more flourishing developed countries (Proper, pg 203). This paper proposes to examine the U.S. Laws governing illegal immigrants and the need to be reformed.

The purpose of this proposal is to show an overview of my investigation of U.S. laws governing illegal ...

Sociology

Illegal Immigrants in the United States of America can are the classic victim of media stereotype emanating out of the classification of immigrants into various criminal categories on account of strict anti-immigration laws. The social perception social construction resulting from such perception concerning a particular group of people possessing homogenous features is the function of the prevailing economic, political and sociological conditions. As and by way of illustration, in a worsening economy, when jobs are few and far off, the government adopts protectionist policies and consequently makes the strong anti-immigration laws. This might not be the case in a thriving economy where jobs ...

Employment laws on seasonal employees: description of the scenario

This paper seeks to apply employment laws to a human resource management strategy or problem. Companies may sometimes have the need for seasonal employees especially those from another country. The need for seasonal employees may be as result of increased work load at a specific time and period. Depending with the industry in which a business falls, there would be seasonal industry fluctuations. In most states, including DC, part time or seasonal employees than 35 hours in a week compared to the 40 hours of full time employees. Large retail chains make use of seasonal employees especially during the festive season, Christmas. The ...

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Introduction

Projects are carefully planned and designed works, either individually or collaborative, that, are intended to achieve a particular aim. Projects have life cycles and aren’t meant to last forever that’s why detailed planning with, schedules, timeline, tasks, tasks dependent on those task, resources, and etc. are clearly very important. Determining what breaks down into these life cycles is how projects are successful or not. Beginning with conceptualization, the development of the initial goal and technical specifications, then planning, or the cycle where all the detailed specifications, schedules, etc are developed. Then comes the ...

South Africa is situated at the southern-most part of the African continent. The country is surrounded by the states of Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The country occupies close to 4% of the total continent’s landmass with a size that is five times bigger than that of Great Britain. South Africa is a great tourist attraction due to its exotic landscape and beautiful culture that attracts visitors. The following is key information that every visitor to South Africa needs to know about .

Passport

In order to travel to South Africa, one is required to be in possession of a ...

Political Science

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This fundamental law of physics also sees an application when it comes to the U.S economic policy and it’s affect on immigration. The United States’ economic policies both on the nationally and globally have throughout history shaped the modern day immigration scene. From the American model of neo-mercantilist colonization of Latin American countries such as Cuba and Puerto Rico, creating more open markets through military intervention in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador, to creating a domestic demand for cheap labor in the agricultural, construction and domestic industries, the U.S. economic policies ...

The United States Needs More Skilled Foreign Workers

Despite what the current unemployment numbers suggest, the United States (U.S.) still needs highly skilled foreign workers and they need to be encouraged to stay for longer periods.

The U.S. prides itself as being a country built by immigrants and the great work ethic that has built this country. According to a study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the expansion of the U.S. economy during the last decade of the 20th and the first part of the 21st centuries would not have been possible without immigration. Immigrants are valuable to our economy by filling an increasing number of ...

Introduction

Nordstrom, Inc. is the company of interest in this discussion. Nordstrom, Inc. is an upscale retailer native to America that sells brand name and private label accessories and apparel merchandise. Initially, the founders started the company in 1901 as a shore store. Since then, the company has grown tremendously, and is now offering a variety of products and services beyond shoes including fragrances, cosmetics, and jewelry. Throughout this report, Nordstrom’s brief background, financial overview, business sector, target market analysis, business operations as compared to competitors, as well as strategies to sustain the business will be discussed.

Company Overview

Nordstrom, Inc. ( ...

Introduction

MasterCard Incorporated is a multinational financial services provider listed on the New York Stock Exchange. MasterCard provides electronic payment cards and other financial services for banks in the United States and around the world. This report will focus on the business environment within which MasterCard operates and how its internal and external environments interact to define its current status as financial service provider. This will include the company analysis which will be an inquest into the internal elements of MasterCard and its activities. The competitors and competition processes faced by MasterCard will be considered. Then the research will provide ...

A migrant farmworker or a migratory agricultural worker is a person who moves from his or her permanent place of residence in pursuit of employment in agricultural work. There are also seasonal farmworkers, who are people who seek temporary farm work and unlike migrant farmworkers, they may have other sources of income and do not move from their permanent residence. According to Migrantclinician.org, the US has around 1 and 2.5 million farmworkers and about half million of them are under 18 years. About half of immigrants have the proper authorization to operate in the US. The males comprise of ...

General Context

The outbreak of the civil war in Syria in March 2011 resulted in the migration of an estimated 9 million Syrians who fled from their homes and sought refuge within their country and in neighboring countries. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that more than 3 million Syrians have fled to the immediate neighbors including Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. This means that about one-quarter of the population has been displaced from the country. An additional 6.5 million are internally displaced within the country. Over the last two years, the migration of these refugees has worsened ...

Is it a good thing to hire foreign workers when there is unemployment?

Introduction
Saudi Arabia is facing a number of challenges in the form of reduced revenue from oil companies, increasing rate of unemployment for its citizens, persistent threats from domestic unrest etc. In this context, one of the sections of the society is tremendously being marginalized, that is the foreign workers who are being paid quite less. In order to cope with the issue of unemployment, the authorities of Saudi Arabia is looking for proposals in which it would be preferred to limit the foreign workers to 08 years stays in their country. In such proposals, companies are discouraged from ...

Introduction

The market of mobile wallet transactions has abruptly emerged over the recent years and it appears to have been proving its value being able to bring advantages to banks, retail shops, and other merchants which make use of this payment method. Chief Executive Officers of prominent and recognized United States Banks reveal their interests in joining the market of mobile wallets because for them additional revenue and customers’ loyalty are at stake. In particular, this was publicly admitted by Richard Davis, head of U.S. Bank, during an online meeting with financial experts (PYMNTS.com, 2014).
Moreover, retail shops claim they ...

In a neoliberal, globalized world, no country can exist on its ‘own’. In some way or the other every country is interlinked with the rest of the world be it its economy, its culture or politics. Neoliberalism, technology and increased globalization has transformed countries in a manner that was rapid and unprecedented. While some countries adapted themselves to the new ways of trading and conducting relations with other countries, some did not, resulting in the breakdown of their economies as well as their traditional systems of governance and living. The neoliberal policies originated in the developed countries of America ...

The United States of America has remained as the top destination for immigrants because of the belief that the country can offer a new home, life and freedom they cannot get in their own home countries. Some would migrate to America because of the war, while there are a few seeking asylum from their respective governments or threats. Migrants come from all over the globe, especially in border countries such as the Latin American countries like Mexico. However, as the years progress, illegal immigration of immigrants, especially of Mexicans are increasing rapidly that raises the concern of many regarding the dangers ...

Strategic Management- Case of MasterCard Incorporated

Introduction
It was in the year 1966 when the idea of MasterCard came into existence, by a group of bankers who decided to invent electronic money as an alternate to the use of cash. They gave origination to this new company “MasterCard”, which launched debit cards and credit cards as introductory products. This is to make users understand the very new electronic payments and transaction services (Reuters, 2015). The idea flourished with time and made MasterCard get recognized both locally and in the international domain. It took years of struggle to earn this much of recognition by MasterCard.
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Abstract

The term, Racial profiling, is usually practiced by law enforcement agencies in order to target people of particular race for investigation and enforcement in a disproportionate manner. Individuals as well as some particular groups are targeted by the law enforcement agencies in such practices and they are subjected to various unjustifiable sufferings. This paper intends to discuss different aspects of racial profiling, role of TSA, Police and other enforcement agencies, along with discussing the impact of racial profiling on Muslims, Arabs, Hispanics, and other American minorities after 9/11. The paper presents a detailed background of ethical profiling, why and when it ...

Yahoo Incorporated was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994. Both of them were students at Stanford University. The acronym Yahoo stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." (Smith and Graham, Internet Law and Regulation). Yahoo is among the leading internet service providers serving both businesses and individuals worldwide. The company brags to be among the largest provider of internet services globally and other integrated services. Yahoo internet search engines are available on World Wide Web. The company provides services to 500 million users around the world. Yahoo Incorporated provides its services in over twenty languages. The ...

It is a great honor working together with your department in conducting this research and coming up with solutions, and strategies that fit to be put in place in improving border security. Upon completion of the research, I made a detailed report containing the findings and recommendations.
The report contains information on the findings as well as recommendations on the measures that need to be put in place in improving border security. There are two key recommendations made in the report which are; increasing the number of security personnel on the border points as well as increasing the border check ...

Rights for terrorists: Research Design

Introduction
Thesis Statement: The United States government should follow international examples in integrating civil rights to extremist elements.
Research questions: Should terrorists have the same civil rights as all Americans?
Should policies against terrorism include these civil rights in their execution procedures?
Proposed hypothesis: Terrorists are entitled to civil rights protection as any average America citizen in their prosecution and conviction process of the accused terrorist crime.

Methodology

There are two types of methodologies applicable to research practice, namely qualitative and quantitative. Quantitative method reveals findings using statistical interpretations while qualitative are descriptive and exploratory in ...

Diversity and differences among the groups of people is one reality in this earth. The world is composed of people with distinctive traits, culture, tradition and physique. How these differences will be respected in the sense of providing equal rights and privileges despite the differences remains a challenge for many nations and even for many institutions.
M. A. MacConaill defined the difference between ethnicity and race. According to him, race refers to the physical characteristic of the group of people. A good example is the comparison of the characteristics of Caucasians and Asians. Caucasians have white skin, usually round ...

Introduction

The definition of cultural heritage tourism according to the national trust is the travelling to see and experience a place and activities that authentically represent the stories and the people of the past as well as the present.( Prins, H.2000). These include cultural practices, natural resources available and historic sites. In most countries which practice tourism, they find it that tourism contributes a lot towards developing their economies. In a situation where proper cultural heritage is done, it helps not only in protecting our nation’s culture but also it protects cultural treasures. It also improves the quality of life of the ...

Abstract

This study aims to present a discussion on the benefits that students can gain from studying abroad, as well as to showcase some of the challenges they may encounter, recommendations on how to maximize the benefits and effective strategies to overcome these obstacles. Due to the increasing global society, studying abroad has taken a significant role for colleges and universities in their objective to produce graduates who are competent to function in the global economy. This study will present the need to develop the different types of intercultural skills to compete internationally. Towards the conclusion of this study, the result of ...

First United Bank gained its charter in 1900 as a Durant National Bank. The growth of the organization has largely been attributed to focus on their customers, where the bank has created products and services based on the needs of the communities in which they operate. The organization has grown to be among the well-capitalized banking organizations in the United States. The mission and objective of the institution is to provide services and products where all the stakeholders involved mutually benefit. The institution provides a variety of products and services to their clients ranging from common banking functions to various rigid ...

STRICTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LAWS

There are existing laws in the U.S. that guaranteed augmented struggle to combat illegal immigration including the USA Patriot Act and the Enhanced Border Security and the Visa Entry Reform Act. Aside from these laws, enhanced efforts of the government included reorganization of the federal system and strict implementation of policies by law enforcement agencies to quell illegal immigration within the country. After the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, the country created the Department of Homeland Security to broaden security measures that address terrorism. The department is tasked to prevent law offenders, immigrants, smugglers and terrorists to enter the ...

First Gulf Bank UAE Marketing Mix

Introduction
First Gulf Bank is among the most prominent banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Bank was started in 1979 in the UAE It has expanded over the last three decades to become a reputable financial services organization. The bank has its headquarters in Abu Dhabi. Since 1979, the bank has become one of the most profitable banks in the UAE. The bank is publicly owned. The bank has opened up strategic branches around the UAE, particularly in areas characteristic of business and industrial areas. The prominence and popularity of the bank has seen it develop into a bank ...

Dear sir/ Madam Ambassador

I am humbly writing this letter to kindly request you to grant me a visa that will enable me to visit EQUITORIAL GUINEA for a touristic trip. My purpose for travel is tourism, to see beautiful sights especially the museums, National parks and architectures. I am also looking forward to experience the foods, learning the culture of the natives and meeting new people. My trip would take 7 days, and my list of activities I am planning to undertake within my trip is as follows.
On my first day, I am planning to visit Arena Blanca the only white beach ...

Over the years people have come to prefer the use of debit cards as compared o credit cards for it gives them direct access to their accounts. It eliminates the need of carrying cash or the need to write a check and show your identification while making a transaction. It also prevents bad debts. Until recently, using debit cards for transactions has been affordable since the fee charged was very small of up to 44 cents in a transaction (Martin and Andrew 2010). The Bank of America together with other banks has started to charge $5 a month for customers using debit cards ...