USA Visas have nothing to do with illegal immigration and the people already here and working for USA businesses.

An Immigrant Visa (click here) category is determined by the type of petition filed on behalf of the beneficiary that is approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Depending on the visa category, an immigrant visa is either immediately available or is numerically limited by law. For immediate relatives of U.S. citizens (IR category), visa numbers are immediately available once the petitions filed on their behalf are approved by the USCIS. Immediate relatives are parents, spouses and minor children (unmarried and under 21 years of age) of U.S. citizens. Each relative must have a separate petition filed on his/her behalf.

April 13, 2012

On April 13, 2012, the U.S. Department of State implemented new Machine-Readable Visa (MRV) fees to ensure sufficient resources to meet the cost of processing nonimmigrant visas. 

Nonimmigrant Visa Fee Table
Visa Class	Old Fee	New Fee
B1/B2, C1/D, F, M, J, and all other NIV categories not listed below	$140	$160
Petition-based Visas - H, L, O, P, Q, and R	$150	$190
Treaty Trader/Treaty Investor - E1, E2	$390	$270

Visitor (B1/B2)

Crew (C1/D)

Student (F, M)

Exchange Visitor (J)

Temporary Work (H1B, H1B1, L, or O)

Journalist (I)

P visa is a type of temporary employment visa of the United States, granted to alien athletes, artists, and entertainers, and their spouses and children.

Q Visa

Q-1 Visas are issued for international cultural exchange visitors Q-2 visa issued to Irish nationals.

The Religious Worker (R) visa is for persons seeking to enter the United States (U.S.) to work in a religious capacity on a temporary basis, under provisions of U.S. law, specifically the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Treaty Trader (E1) or Treaty Investor (E2)

Willard Mitt Romney would know about R Visas, he enjoyed them while the Vietnam War was being waged and over 58,000 American troops died.

Published: Sunday, February 07, 2010, 7:00 AM

The number of Vietnam veteran deaths has almost doubled (click here) since 2001 and, according Department of Veterans Affairs' projections, will hit 103,890 this year -- approaching 300 a day. That's more than five times the average daily number of U.S. combat deaths during the peak casualty year of the war in 1968.

Willoughby, now 63 and a year older than the national average age of Vietnam vets, said three members of his old unit have died in the past five years, two from cancer and one from a heart attack.

That's why the North Olmsted veteran said the unit reunions have been changed from once every two years to annual affairs.

Time is catching up, and they know it.

Jim Quisenberry, a member of the local Joint Veterans Honor Guard, said he has been serving at an increasing number of funerals for fellow Vietnam vets in recent years.

"It's scary," said Quisenberry, 61, of Lakewood. "It seems like the 'Nam guys aren't going to be around a long time, not like their fathers."...