US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 11 consultants on February 11, 2009 in an operation carried out by all levels of government. These consultants are accused of suspected visa and mail fraud. Vision Systems Group Inc., a New Jersey consulting company with a branch office in Coon...

This post is a follow up from my previous post titled “The Truth About Indian IT Consulting Firms Revealed“. In that post I wrote about the tactics that Indian IT consulting firms employ to recruit and place international students in IT jobs. In this post I am going to share an email from...

I’ve been wanting for quite a while to compile a list of US companies that hire international students. I have heard many times how international students interview for jobs (sometimes three or four times for the same job with different levels of management) only to get snubbed in the end with...

Saint Cloud State University (SCSU) in Saint Cloud, Minnesota has proved to be a very popular destination for students from Nepal who come to the USA for their higher education. The university has been admitting in excess of 50 students from Nepal every semester for the last few years. A number of factors...

US News & World Report has released a list of most popular colleges in the US. The determining factor in this ranking was the percentage of admitted students that actually enrolled at the school. This measure is called yield. A school with a high yield means that the school is usually a first choice...

I’ve often been asked the question, “Is it difficult to get a student visa to the US after the 9/11 attacks?” Many international students are under the misguided conception that the US government has cut down on issuing student visas. This could not be further from the truth. In fact,...