Given the long waits for green cards, an H-B visa is usually required if a U.S. employer wants to hire a skilled foreign national from a U.S. university or abroad.

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One strategist appears to have enacted a three-legged bullish play on Visa to reduce premium required to position for upside potential in the underlying shares.

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The conditional status would be removed and the green card awarded after two years if the individual satisfied the terms of the new EB-6 (employment-based 6th preference) visa by creating the required jobs.

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His lawyer, Robert Stahl, told CNN his client had not been attending classes on a regular basis, as required by his visa.

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By her own account Sanchez has on some 20 occasions been rejected for the much-detested exit visa that for decades was required of all islanders seeking to go abroad.

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This includes anyone "changing their normal place of residence for 12 months or more", even though students are required to leave when their student visa runs out.

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Under the new policy, Cubans will need only a passport, national identity card, and, if required by the country they are visiting, a visa from their destination.

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The UK Border Agency said it took the action because the university was not making proper checks on its overseas students - that it did not keep records of whether they had the required standard of English to be given a student visa or whether they were attending lectures.

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He was required to show his documents, including a valid U.S. visa.

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He was required to show his documents -- including a valid U.S. visa.

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Back in April the U.S. government started questioning the viability of their plan to use RFID chips to store biometric data in passports, which would also have required biometric passports from any visitors to the U.S. entering the country under the Visa Waiver program (which allows short-term visits without a visa).

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