Wanna go to the US? Get in touch with VisaPro

REMEMBER the recent visa-related controversy where some techies were detained in the Netherlands and required state intervention to bail them out and the ongoing controversy concerning visa status or professionals and some curbs?

How about a professional visa facilitation counseling that will ensure that some of these situations could perhaps be avoided?

Did you know that a professional could apply from India and seek a green card in the US taking professional support? It is estimated that the visa-related business is an industry and is estimated at $12.5 billion covering about 125 different services.

Mr. Venkat Ramineni, Chief Executive Officer of VisaPro LLC, a US-based consultancy services firm that offers visa facilitation and attorney services, said visa facilitation and attorney services, said visa facilitation has emerged as an important area which corporate houses and even professional, as also the student community, have found useful.

Commencing its Hyderabad operations, VisaPro has firmed us plans to invest about $2 million in the Hyderabad centre over the next two years, he told newspersons here today.

For a top executive to concentrate on what his company focuses on rather than bother about visa for his employees or for that matter tackling the issue of an employee held for overstaying, without realising he was violating the norms. How about looking at the online services model which VisaPro, a US-based company has evolved.

While an online service is just an enabler, the company functions in the traditional offline mould.

Mr. Ramineni said the focus in India among other areas would be to help people utilise the M-1 vocational or non-academic student's visa and the H1-B temporary workers visa.

"The number of applications we processed has doubled each month since inception in 2002. The growth has really been client-driven. We are now in India to help. Experienced attorneys prepare and file cases to avoid costly mistakes and subsequent delays." Explaining the diversity in services and complexity of the visa-related documentation, Mr. Ramineni said whether it is the much underutilised non-immigrant J-1 exchange visitor visa, or the regular H1-B and L-1 work visa for the globe trotting executives, VisaPro has the expertise to handle them.