Satheesh Kumar Ilu 
Some of us tend to cancel our car insurance or rather not renew it when we are traveling home country for vacation. The simple logic for most of us is that we are NOT taking the car on road, why bother to pay for insurance. Unfortunately, even though logically it seems correct, sometimes you can …
My friend recently got his H1B visa stamped in Chennai, India. He was kind enough to take time and articulate every step of the visa stamping experience in an intriguing way. Thanks to him for sharing his wonderful H1B visa stamping experience. As most of you, who got H1B petition approved in 2010, might be going …
Ramesh had F1 visa interview at Hyderabad on October 25th, 2010. He is gracious to share his F1 visa stamping experience with our readers. Congrats to Ramesh on getting visa and Thanks to him for taking time to write his experience ! You can also share your visa experience with our readers, it will help others get some …
I was in my very first class in MS, my professor was explaining the syllabus, course policies and other stuff, at the end he said “ There is no curving of grades in this class ”. I did not wanted to sound dumb in front of the class, so I did not ask any question…Some …
When I lived in my previous apartment, during winter we got a big fat electricity bill over $250 dollars. We were just shocked…the simple thing we missed when we rented that place we did not know the importance of having heat included in the monthly rental…we got such a huge bill just because “Heat was …
After I got my visa to come to USA, I searched up online and also looked at some of the documentation that I collected at that time to identify things I have to do in home country before I arrive in US…just because either they were expensive in US or they were required. Let me …
Few years ago, when I came to US for the first time, I got a check payable to my university in dollars towards tuition fee from an Indian Bank…As I got scholarship, few thousand dollars from the check I got were refunded…I was really excited to send some money home, you know how that feels …
If you are an international student on F1 visa or a professional in US on H1B visa, you might have questions like What is the process to get driving license in USA ? How to get driving license in USA ? How to get Learning Permit? What are the requirements for getting license on F1 …
As most of you know, there was a bill that was signed into law by the President in August to increase the H1B and L1 Fee in order to support the borders… It was called Public Law 111- 230. It was effective from August 14th, 2010. Read this article for some background details: USCIS: H1B …
I still remember how crazy it was trying to learn how to drive back home. We did not own a car back in India and my uncle owned a TATA 407 Van…My uncle took me to a big lake that was dried out because of severe drought and made me practice driving…it was just intense…I …