Visa Consultants in Bangalore

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Akkam Immigration and Allied Services
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• Scholarship Assistance

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SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE

• 1. MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIP
• These awards are based on a student's
  academic, artistic, athletic or other
  abilities, and often factor in an applicant's
  extracurricular activities and
  community service record. The most common
  merit-based scholarships, awarded by either
  private organizations or directly by a student's
  intended college, considering
  his/her academic achievement or high scores on
  standardized tests.
• 2. NEED BASED SCHOLARSHIP
• If a Students family income comes under a
  lower-middle income bracket may not have
  the funds to pay tuition fees are eligible for
  Need based scholarships. How ever the
  student should have a good academic test score
  as well as some extra curricular Activities.
• 3. EXTERNAL SCOLARSHIP
• External scholarships are provided to the
  students who are seeking higher
  education Overseas, where as there would be
  eligibility test to be given, based on
  the scores students are entitled to avail certain
  amount of scholarships from the
  public/private Organizations. eg Aga Khan
  Foundation, British Council, ETS etc...

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Financial Aid- Scholarships

• Financial Aid Its a mix of grants,
  scholarships, loans and often jobs that a college
  

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Funding Overseas Education A Few Facts

• 1. Financial aid is available in most of the
  universities on a competitive basis but there is
  never any guarantee
• 2. Applying early improves the chances of being
  considered for financial aid.
• 3. Chances of getting financial aid are improved
  after the first semester
• 4. It is rare for students to get admitted to the
  top universities with financial aid.

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SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE

• HOW AKKAM WILL GUIDE FOR SCHOLARSHIP
• 1. Guiding students with the type of scholarships
  available in the university level.
• 2. Filling the scholarship application form along
  with the graduate application(if
  scholarships are provided).
• 3. Guiding students with the external
  scholarships availability and how to prepare for
  it.
• 4. Providing the formats/guidelines to write
  scholarship essays(if required by the University)
• 5. Guiding the students in terms of when to apply
  for Scholarships

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ADMISSION INTERVIEW PREPARATION

• WHAT IS ADMISSION INTERVIEW PREPERATION
• 1. Once student receives his interview call from
  the university as a next process we will help the
  student with the sample questions and answers for
  the mock interview preparation.
• 2. The local verbal Faculty will guide the
  student with the Mock Interview preparation.
• WEIGHTAGE OF ADMISSION INTERVIEW.
• Overall weight age of the Interview for the
  admission process is 40. The following weight
  age will be given for each component of the
  selection criteria.
• Common Admission Test
• Personal Interview
• Written Communication Test
• Academic Performance
• Interview process is only for Management
  Applicants

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ADMISSION INTERVIEW PREPERATION

• HOW WILL AKKAM HELP STUDENT FOR INTERVIEW
  PREPERATION
• Our Local faculty will guide students with the
  interview preparation and the practice sessions.
  Like any interview the best way to prepare is to
  practice answering interview questions. You can
  use
• the10 common questions listed below for your
  preparation.
• 1. Why are you applying to our business
  school/graduate school?
• 2. Why do you want to study the MBA/MS? Why at
  this point?
• 3. What do you expect from the MBA/MS?
• 4. Have you applied to / thought about applying
  to any other business schools?
• 5. Who are you? (Discuss yourself)

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ADMISSION INTERVIEW PREPERATION

• 5. Who are you? (Discuss yourself)
• 6. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
  (Aspirations)
• 7. What are your greatest strengths?
• 8. What would you say are your biggest
  weaknesses?
• 9. Why do you think you are right for our
  business school/graduate school?
• 10. Can you provide an example of a time when you
  demonstrated leadership?

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POST ADMISSION INTERVIEW PROCESS

• WHAT IS POST ADMISSION INTERVIEW PROCESS.
• Once the admission is confirmed from the
  university student has to pay certain amount of
  tuition deposit for the offer letter/I-20.
• HOW WILL T.I.M.E. HELP STUDENTS
• The counselor will provide the complete guidance
  to the student about how to pay the admission
  deposit amount to the university.
• If student has applied for a partner University
  we have to follow up with the University for the
  Offer Letter/I-20.
• If student has applied for the Non Tie Up
  University the Local Consultant have to follow up
  with the student for the Offer letter/I-20
  updates.

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SAMPLE I-20
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VISA APPLICATION GUIDANCE
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VISA APPLICATION GUIDANCE

• WHAT IS VISA APPLICATION
• A citizen of a foreign country who seeks to
  pursue the higher education overseas should first
  obtain a valid visa.
• Once student receives the offer letter from the
  university student has to fill the visa
  application form and schedule the visa
  appointment.
• HOW WILL T.I.M.E. HELP STUDENTS WITH VISA
  APPLICATION
• We help student by providing the appropriate visa
  application link and start filling the visa form.
• If student is applying to the countries where
  individual presence is required for the interview
  we help them with the sample Visa question and
  answer, so that student can start preparing.
• Once the preparation is done from the students
  end we have to ensure that the Local faculty has
  to take his/her final mock interviews.

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VISA APPLICATION DOCUMENTS

• Offer Letter/I-20
• Financial Documents(covering your one year of
  tuition living expenses)
• Documents on LIQUID CASH,FIXED ASSETS,
  MACHINERY(cars etc.)
• CA CE report(compiled report on liquid assets
  fixed assets)
• Educational Docs.( All Mark Sheet )
• English language Test Score
• GMAT/GRE Test Score
• Print out of the visa application form.
• Print out of visa appointment letter
• All Original Docs are required

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TYPES OF VISA

• There are 3 types of US student visa
• 1. Full - time academic studies - F-Visa
• 2. Exchange program - J-Visa
• 3. Non Academic or Vocational Studies
  M-Visa.

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• Akkam (Head Office ,Hyderabad )
• Above Mebaz Showroom - 2nd Floor, Beside white
  house, Kundanbagh, Begumpet, Hyderabad- 500016,
  India
• Landline 040-40198115/ 40178116
• Mobile [phone]
• Hyderabad_at_akkam.in
• Akkam (Bangalore)
• 805, 8th Floor , Prestige Meridian -1, M. G.
  Road, Bangalore - 560001, India.
• Landline 080-41273030
• Mobile [phone]
• bangalore_at_akkam.in
• Akkam (Chandigarh)
• Address 139-140, 2nd Floor Sector-9 c, Madhya
  Marg Chandigarh - 160009, India
• Landline 0172 - 4191191
• Mobile [phone]
• Chandigarh_at_akkam.in http//www.akkam.in

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