Financial Express, Hyderabad (Tuesday, June 24, 2003)
The US-based VisaPro, specialises in expediting processing of the US visas and immigration attorney consultations to both corporates and individuals through online and offline, has opened its Indian outfit in Hyderabad.
Addressing the press conference here on Tuesday, Mr. Venkat Ramineni, chief executive office, VisaPro, said the Indian outfit VisaPro Services Private Ltd, will be first in India to provide 125 different kinds of immigration services to address the immigration-related problems and needs.
Easy access to consultation with immigration attorneys in the US gives the company an unmatched advantage and the clients a great benefit. Four dedicated attorneys of the company prepare and file cases to avoid costly mistakes and subsequent delays, he said.
The company will provide the immigration services by automating the application processing thorough its online services www.visapro.com which will bring the results in fast, economical, secure visa processing and help the applications stand in long queues and frequent visits to the consulates, he claimed.
The company would provide diversified services whether it is underutilized non-immigrant J-1 exchange visitor visa or the regular H1-B and L-1 work visas for globe-trotting executives. The company has the expertise to handle them all.
VisaPro Compliance is another service that the company offers to corporate clients. Difficult situations like those faced by the Indian IT professionals recently in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Netherlands could be overcome with VisaPro Compliance services, he said further.
The one-year-old company's website has a hit of over 150,000 weekly for various information and services offered by the company, he said adding nearly 500 applications have been serviced so far. The company will charge $195 for each service and it will be lesser in India once the operations begin in full fledged manner, he added.
In order to expand its operation in a big way, the company has proposed to bring in $3 million investments into the Indian company, he said.