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GREEN CARD

Posted by osrec On January - 14 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

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.

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.

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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.

Abused spouses and children of U.S. Citizens or Green

Card holders

k.

Permanent Residents who departed the U.S. for more

than 12 months

l.

Foreign children declared dependent in U.S.

juvenile courts

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