Apartment or Independent Home or Farm House

Which one I have to rent in the United States?

Apartment: 

You Need to lease 1 year or 6 months minimum.

Choose the apartment in good school rating area if you have kids.

Month to month lease: Many Apartments will let you after one year lease completed. But you need to pay more 

Community around you. You can socialize more.

Children play area, swimming pool etc available.

Apartment company will take care if there are any problems in house.

Just you need to pay utilities as defined. In a way, you will pay much in the range.

If you have to break lease, You need to pay as per the terms and conditions.

You must look at the crime rate in that apartment before signing the lease.

If apartment company is not good, then your complaints will not be resolved faster.

Independent home:

Normally lease for 1 year.  No month to month possibility.

Choose the house in good school rating area if you have kids.

You must study lease terms and conditions properly.

Renew and get signed lease immediately after your lease expired. 

This will protect you from owners. Otherwise owners can give you one month notice and ask you to vacate if they want to sell. It will put you and your family in great distress.

Check all the utilities provided working properly or not.

Record at the time of lease and get signed by the owner if there are any problems.

Take the history of water bill, gas bill, electricity bill average per month before signing lease. You will not suddenly end up paying $500 for your electricity bill.

Read and understand lease terms and conditions properly. Some owners want only check or cashier check. Online transfer not accepted. I prefer online transfer. I can schedule from my account every month.

Some owners will come uninvited and take fruits or vegetables in that house being you are tenant. As per the law it is not permitted.

Owner can't enter without your permission.

Check fridge, washer and dryer in home or not. Otherwise you need to buy and later need to take them with you to next home. It's not worth.

Farm House:

Cozy and big area. No body can enter. It is private property.

You are missing social living.

You don't have disturbance or neighbors complaints.

Check where from water come for the house utilization. If it is from the well, there might be electricity consumption continuously.  Water need to be pumped into the house. YOU NEED TO PAY EXTRA ELECTRICITY BILL APART FROM NORMAL ELECTRICITY BILL.

Check is it PROPANE gas utilized for water heater to shower and house heating system? YOU NEED TO PAY A LOT. Propane is expensive. One filling of Propane gas can cost you $600. It will work for a month in winter.

Understand owner lease terms and conditions. Some owners don't want to extend lease for long-term. If you plan to stay long time it's not possible.

MOST REQUIRED: Internet

Some Farm houses will not have XFINITY or other service providers access. You will get satellite very low speed internet. You will end up paying too much. 

Farm house is open for animals and creatures. Flys, cockroach, rats, rabbits and others will disturb you a lot. 

Farm house need to have proper insulations to prevent entry of these. Ex: Garage door have small hole. Many friends will enter from there. BE READY

In addition to all the stated above here are the most necessary things to look for.

How much distance you need to go for grocery stores (ex: Walmart), restaurants, movie theaters and other necessities?

If your kids go to school, How far is the school?

Good luck. Finding suitable accommodation is most important aspect.

EB1A Green Card

 EB1A Green Card - Employment-Based Extraordinary Ability Green Card

This information is just based on my research. Attorney will guide you more concrete information.

You must meet three categories out of 10 categories listed in USCIS website.

Normally research scientists meet the following categories. 

1. Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media

You need to have sufficient publications in peer-reviewed journals. Publications in Pubmed indexed journals will be perfect.

These publications should be evidence to what you described in the summary document as your research expertise which defines as outstanding research scientist.

The number of publications required to fulfill the category is based on your research area. Ex: If you are a nuclear medicine scientist, your five excellent publications (Which invented something or proposed a new method or device) can define you as outstanding scientist. Because very few people work in this research area. If you are a scientist in a research area where many people are experts, you need to have more publications with novel expertise to define you as outstanding scientist.

2. Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel

This criteria mainly based on your review of others scientific work.

You have to review research manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals. You need to review as many manuscripts as possible. Evaluation of PhD thesis will be added advantage. If you are an editorial board member of peer-reviewed journals, it will add additional advantage.

3. Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field

You need to provide concrete evidence to show your research had significantly added something to the field of research you have been working.

Ex: A patent was filed on a novel therapeutic you developed for COVID-19 or any other disease.

Ex: A new medication is marketed for treatment of a disease based on your research.

Ex: A device or diagnostic kit is in market based on your research invention.

Ex: Your research paved a way for clinical trials of a new drug or existing drug.

Ex: You invented a novel pathway to treat a disease which had significant impact on that disease diagnosis or treatment.

Ex: Other scientist used your novel signaling pathway or method or reagent or any other thing to develop a diagnostic method/treatment/medical device. Many people explain this category based on citations achieved all along these years for the publications they have.

But USCIS defines this category as major significance to the field. This means you as an outstanding scientist contributed majorly to the field of your research area.

Recently, USCIS officers are looking at your publications which have more citations. Officer is asking to prove significance of your research contributions from those most cited articles. Ex: You have 200 citations for three articles published from your PhD work. You recently published ten more articles and they have a cumulative of 50 citations. USCIS officer want you to prove major significance from your three articles which contributed 200 citations.

Summary

If you are applying green card in EB1A category, You need to check whether your achievements comply all these criteria or not. Attorneys help to organize your letters and summary document through their experience. They don't know what is your research. They also don't know your research area and achievements meet the expectations of USCIS. Do not assume: They will search the web about you to find what more you have achieved. Based on your explanation, summary draft document they will assess. Your research and achievements summary draft will help them to understand your application strength. If your application comply standards based on their experience, then they agree to file your I-140.

You need to be honest. You must write summary document and reference letters clearly with all evidences.

Whatever you write in the document must have a evidence. Without proof, attorney will not accept what you write. Attorney will not allow you to submit reference letters from substandard scientists or people.

You need to work and self evaluate whether you are outstanding research scientist in your area or not.

Don't do this:

Do not claim anything without evidence, This will be a big mistake if you do.

Do not claim many criteria unknowingly unless you are definitely complying those. Check with Attorney twice.

Do not think that USCIS officer won't study what you submitted. USCIS officer will read everything and evaluate the provided evidences validity.

Don't think that because you submitted I-140 in premium process, USCIS officer will be in hurry and approve you. 

Don't use to much complex sentences which can't be understood easily.

Don't submit inorganized application. Do not forget to submit proper fees.

Do this:

Organize your application properly. It must be easy to find anything from your file.

Write all the documents in easily understandable language.

Question: I am working with J1 visa with 212(e) rule. Can I submit I-140 application in EB1A category?

Ans: Yes you can submit I-140 application. Your I-140 approval is not based on your J1 visa or 212(e) rule

If you are submitting I-485, You must have J1 visa and 212(e) waiver which is I-612 approval notice. You must not travel after submission of I-485 application if you are with J1 or J2 visa status. You can travel with advance parole if you are with J1 or J2 visa. 

If you are working with H1B visa, you only need proof of valid visa. You can travel with H1B visa.

Information in Birth certificate and passport must match perfectly. There must not be any spell errors or any other things.

The United States always welcome Outstanding Scientists.

NORI for J1 VISA

You have to browse for nearest Indian consulate.

Example if you are near to Chicago

http://indianconsulate.com/page/display/87/17

Complete information is given in that website .

Address for AP Home secretary:

To the Principal Secretary,

Home Department

A.P. Secretariat,

VELAGAPUDI-  522 503

TULLURU Mandal,

GUNTUR DIST.

Andhra Pradesh,  INDIA

Address for Telangana State Home Secretary Office

Room No. 514, Fifth Floor, A Block, 

Telangana Secretariat, Hyderabad 

Phone:04023450705 

Email:secy_home-ts@nic.in

Please call them or send some one to confirm this address.

Passport Office  

The Regional Passport Officer

Regional Passport Office,

D. No. 8-2-215 to 219

Adjacent to prasanth theater

Kummaraguda, Secunderabad - 500 003

Telangana State, India
+91 40 27715333
+91 40 27715115
+91 40 27806657
https://www.justdial.com/Hyderabad/Regional-Passport-Office-Beside-Prashant-Theatre-Secunderabad/040PXX40-XX40-000022136482-J6M2_BZDET

Ministry of Human Resource Development for  NORI : Apply online through the below website
http://www.nori.ac.in/

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