Visas
Work, study, a visit, or joining family — the category matched to your situation and the whole application prepared to it.
Visa categories
Which visa is the right one?
Visa work spans the temporary categories — visitor, student, exchange, employment — and the immigrant visas that lead to a green card. The category follows your reason for coming.
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Every category has its own test.
Visitor, student, exchange, and employment visas each ask for different evidence from different sponsors. Matching purpose to category is what the application rests on.
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Most temporary visas ask you to prove you will leave.
Nonimmigrant intent — a job, a home, family you are returning to — is what refusals most often turn on, and it is a question of evidence rather than sincerity.
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Your history follows the application.
A prior refusal, an overstay, or an inconsistency with an earlier form complicates the next attempt — as does incomplete disclosure of the social media history now required.
Our approach
How Olvera Law Office approaches a visa application.
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Name the category, and the obstacles.
We match your purpose to the category that fits and flag the restrictions or admissibility questions that would derail it, before you invest in the wrong path.
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Prepare the application, disclosures included.
Forms, evidence, required disclosures, and interview preparation are handled as one piece of work, because a careless answer on any of them is treated as a misrepresentation.
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Work through what comes back.
Prior denials, administrative processing, and long appointment waits are ordinary here. Where an employer sponsors we support both sides; where family is the reason we move to the family categories.
Eligibility
Eligibility.
Nearly every temporary category asks for two things: the right purpose, and admissibility.
Beyond the category's own test, you generally have to show ties that will bring you home, unless the category allows dual intent, and you must be clear of the grounds that make someone inadmissible.
A consular refusal is generally not appealable. Depending on the ground, the way forward is a stronger new application or a waiver — very different amounts of work, so it is worth knowing which.
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As an immigration attorney, Mosiah Olvera reviews your case, identifies the strongest path forward, and helps you take the next step.
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