How To Get a Green Card to USA

                                            

Green Cards - 11 ways to get one!

A green card, officially known as known as "United States Lawful Permanent Residency," authorizes an individual to live and work in the United States permanently. Individuals seeking a green card through employment can apply from their home country once they are assigned an immigrant visa number, which is organized based on the following preferences:

• First Preference: Individuals with special abilities, distinguished academics, professors, and researchers, and international executives
• Second Preference: Professionals with an advanced degree or workers with exceptional talent
• Third Preference: Skilled workers and professionals
• Fourth Preference: Individuals under special circumstances, and certain religious workers
• Fifth Preference: Immigrant investors, who must invest between $500,000-$1,000,000 in a venture that creates at least ten new jobs for U.S. citizens or other lawful permanent residents and immigrants.

How to Get a Green Card

There are four basic employment-related ways to obtain a green card, including:

• Green Card through a job offer: An which an individual can apply for a green card after receiving a formal offer to work in the United States.
• Green Card through investment: An individual establishes a business venture that creates new jobs in the U.S.
• Green Card through self-petition: Distinguished individuals with exceptional abilities, or specific individuals who are granted a National Interest Waiver, can file a green card for themselves.
• Special Category Green Card: This category include workers in the established special immigrant categories, such as broadcasters, international employees, and religious workers, for example.

Green Card Lottery Program

The annual green card lottery program (Diversity Immigrant Visa Program) is an opportunity for potential immigrants to obtain the status as a permanent legal resident of the USA. This program runs each year and provides 55,000 "Green Cards" to applicants randomly selected in a lottery process - known as the Green Card Lottery.

Green Card Application Process

Although the application process differs based on the method in which one seeks to obtain a green card, generally an I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker, must be submitted.

Once the petition is approved individuals can apply for a green card through Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status.

The United States offers several ways to become a Permanent Resident (Green Card holder). A Green Card allows you to live and work permanently in the U.S. Below is a list of the various ways that you may qualify for a Green Card. Choose the appropriate category and click Start Now to learn more.                                                               Start Now 1.  Family Based Immigration a.  Relatives of U.S. Citizens         •   Spouse          •   Unmarried child (under the age of 21)          •   Unmarried stepchild (under the age of 21)         •   Adopted child (under the age of 18) or        •   Parent or stepparent         •   Unmarried son or daughter (over the age of 21)          •   Married son or daughter (any age)          •   Brother or Sister b.  Relatives of Green Card holders         •   Spouse          •   Unmarried child (under the age of 21)          •   Unmarried stepchild (under the age of 21)         •   Adopted child (under the age of 18) or        •   Unmarried son or daughter (over the age of 21)  2.  Employment Based Immigration a. Employment First Preference         •  Persons with extraordinary ability          •  Outstanding professors and researchers        •  Managers and executives in multinational companies b. Employment Second Preference         •  Professionals with advanced degrees        •  Persons with exceptional ability        •  Exceptional professors and researchers c. Employment Second Preference with National Interest Waiver (NIW)         •   Persons with exceptional ability involved in activities that will substantially benefit the U.S. national interest         •   Advanced degree professionals involved in activities that will substantially benefit the U.S. national interest d. Employment Third Preference         •   Professionals with a U.S. bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree         •   Skilled workers         •   Unskilled workers e. Schedule A         •   Registered nurses and physical therapists         •   Persons qualified to work in one of the shortage occupations on the Schedule A list 3.  Green Card Lottery           •   Winners of the Green Card Lottery conducted by the U.S. Department of State. 4.  Investors         a.   Foreign entrepreneurs who invest $500,000 in a commercial enterprise in a targeted employment area that will benefit the U.S. economy and create at least 5 full-time U.S. jobs.         b.  Foreign entrepreneurs who invest $1,000,000 in a commercial enterprise that will benefit the U.S. economy and create at least 10 full-time U.S. jobs. 5.  Adoption           •   Children under sixteen years of age adopted by U.S. citizens or green card holders. 6.  Registry           •   Foreign Nationals who have resided continuously in the U.S. since January 1, 1972. 7.  Private Bill           •   Foreign nationals that Congress (House of Representatives or Senate) believes have compelling humanitarian factors to stay permanently in the U.S. and for whom the USCIS cannot grant permanent resident status. 8.  Diplomats           •   High-level diplomats on A-1 visa who are unable or unwilling to return to their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. 9.  Asylum           •   Foreign nationals in the U.S. who are unable or unwilling to return to their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social or political group. 10.  Refugee           •   Foreign nationals displaced by war, famine, and civil and political unrest or, unable or unwilling to return to their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution.           •   Foreign nationals in their home country who have experienced persecution in the past or have a well-founded fear of persecution in the future. 11.  Special Immigrants          a.   Religious Workers          b.   Former employees of U.S. Government          c.   Former employees of the Panama Canal Zone           d.   Former employees of U.S. Armed Forces          e.   Retired employees of International Organizations          f.    Former employees of the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong          g.   Employees of International Broadcasting Companies          h.   Special agricultural workers          i.    Foreign medical graduates          j. 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