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Archive for November, 2008

Visa para un sueño/Visa for a Dream

The name of this article is the title of a song by a well known Republica Dominicana singer and composer Juan Luis Guerra depicting the dream and suffers at the same time of every Hispanic to come to the USA and have the American dream.

Those Hispanics who come to the USA to have a decent life and better future will do it usually through a tourist visa, work visa, student visa and lately for security reasons asylum visa; there are more type of visa that you can apply for but for now I will focus on those types stated before.

New President

Finally the battle is over and we have a new president, some people will have some concern because the elected president is an African American and if you are Caucasian you are not sure how he is going to react to different issues or perhaps think that he will favor minorities rather than the country [...]

State Farm Sponsors Hispanic Voting Drive

Thursday 26 June 2008 by: Miriam Jordan, The Wall Street Journal With an eye on the fast-growing Hispanic market, State Farm Insurance Cos. will announce Thursday that it will be the lead sponsor of the largest national campaign thus far to encourage Latinos to become U.S. citizens and register to vote. That will make it [...]

Insurance and the Hispanic market

Though Hispanics are buying cars and homes at record rates, they still represent
the group most underserved by the insurance industry. The percentages of Hispanics who
have various kinds of insurance are significantly lower than non-Hispanic whites and
other minority group.
In addition, Hispanics are much less likely to have ever met with a financial planner.
According to a Hispanic Market Weekly report on the insurance industry, almost three
times as many non-Hispanic whites have met with a financial advisor as Hispanics