Thursday, October 4, 2007

The Golden Ticket

“Mother! Look! I’ve got it! Look, Mother, look! The last Golden Ticket! It’s mine!”
- Charlie, from ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’
Just as Charlie needed the sought-after golden ticket to enter the chocolate factory, one who wants to study in the United States needs a student visa to enter ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave…[play ball!]’
What is a student visa and how does it differ from other kinds of visas, such as a tourist visa?
There are two types of U.S. visas - the immigrant visa and the non-immigrant visa.
A student visa falls under the category of ‘non-immigrant,’ meaning one is temporarily staying in the United States in order to pursue one’s studies.
How then does it differ from the usual ‘tour View the rest of this article


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