Satheesh Kumar Ilu USCIS announced the final rule to increase the application fee they charge for various immigration and naturalization services. In fact, about 90% of its budget comes from the fee paid by applicants for immigration benefits. They review it every 2 years or so to keep up with the costs and inflation. Overall, the average application …
Life is all about experiences, you just live once…Since I came to US, I was lucky to experience many things in America ranging from doing outdoor activities like hiking, canoeing, water rafting, Skydiving( Read my Sky Diving Experience ), crazy roller coasters, Theme parks, etc…I can honestly admit, I would not have done so many …
Getting lucky and being picked in the H1B Lottery is one part and the long wait that comes after filing the H1B petition is another different thing. Many applicants may or may not know that they can check the H1B Visa processing times on USCIS website by USCIS Service Centers. This article is a guide …
International students planning to come to US for Graduate school might be wondering with questions like “How would my professors treat me in US? Will they be friendly? Do they hold any grudge against me if I ask them lot of questions? How should I behave with professors in class?” This article will address some …
Imagine you plan to move to a new city… what do you normally look for before renting a place? Typically, we look at things like how close the new place is to grocery store, gym, library, Community centers, park, lake, beach, etc. Apart from that, we also look at stuff like quality of the facilities …
Many professionals like to expand their knowledge by auditing classes at a local university. Some of you may want audit classes from Stanford or Berkeley, just to have an experience of what those classes look like. Some of you may not know what I am talking about…I have audited so many classes in MBA—In fact, …
One day, during my MBA first semester, I was looking at my tuition fee receipt and just out of my curiosity I did a simple math on how much money I was exactly paying for each lecture session of a course. I was amazed by the calculations and it just changed my perspective of classes …
If you work in Consulting, you might have heard this concept of Per Diem. Let me share the concept of Per Diem and how it works and how you can check per diem in a location. What is Per Diem ? How does it work ? Per Diem is nothing but daily allowance for living …
One of the things that I have noticed with international students is NOT planning ahead of time. Students decide to study MS or MBA in US in the eleventh hour and say I do not have time. They start googling “ How to prepare for GRE in 15 days ? One month or Two months”. …
From my experience talking to international students, the first thing that I have seen most of the students ask someone when they plan on applying schools is “Can you send me the list of Top ranked US universities for this program ?” . The reality is, except few, most of the students just blindly look …