Part 3 - Immigrant Visas – The More Permanent Option
There are a number of different immigrant visas available if you want to live and work in the Unites States on a permanent basis. I will focus mainly on family-based immigrant visas.
Part 2 - Non-Immigrant US Visas
There are a large number of non-immigrant visas available to you, should you desire to visit America for business, pleasure or work on a temporary basis.
US Immigration: Walk Before You Stumble
Part 1 – First a little humor then we'll get serious
Immigrating to the States is not as easy as going to the U.S. Consulate in Jo-burg, getting a visitors visa, packing up and flying to greener pastures in the hope that you will figure things out when you get here! Clients have told me stories of people saying: Well the U.S. Consulate gave me a 10 year visitor visa, so this must mean that I can remain in the States for 10 years!!! No, it doesn't.
I have to confess my dirty little secret - I love Las Vegas! Most people are shocked to discover this because they think Vegas is a cesspool of filth and everything dodgy.
"Roll on those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Those days of soda and pretzels and beer..." this is the one song that, in my opinion, captures the essence of summer. Although pretzels and beer have been replaced with wasabi peanuts and martinis, Nat King Cole couldn't have said it better. Summer is here, and yours for the taking, it really just depends on what you're after – lazy, hazy or crazy?
"Even old New York was once New Amsterdam"
Song: They May Be Giants
If we were to think about the major influences that have played a part in South African life as we know it – the language(s) we speak, religion, architecture, and to which country we might compare ourselves to today – what could we say?
