Simply put, it can be divided into three categories: family immigrants, employer-sponsored immigrants and others.
The premise of family immigration is that immediate family members are American citizens or hold green cards. Citizens can help their spouses, parents, children, brothers and sisters to apply for immigration, while green card holders can only help their spouses and unmarried children to apply.
Employer-sponsored immigrants are divided into EB 1, EB2, EB3, EB4 and EB5, among which only EB 1 outstanding talents in EB2 and NIW national interest exemption need not be directly prepared by employers, but it is very difficult. In addition, EB5 is an investment immigrant and can spend money on investment projects. The premise of other categories is that American employers can't recruit people in the United States+and your conditions meet the job requirements+employers are willing to recruit you.
It is quite difficult to find an employer. If you are the boss, will you go through a series of troubles directly for a foreigner who doesn't use much to help him apply for a green card? I have to send countless documents to the government, coordinate with lawyers to complete the arrangement of documents, give my own taxes to the government for acceptance, pay the government, provide interview records for recruiting local people, and advertise in the local area ... In short, all kinds of troubles ...
Other categories finally say.
Here are some specific scenarios:
International student path:
Those who plan to send their children to study in the United States have a look.
International students who want to get a green card have to climb three mountains:
L the first mountain: looking for a job
It is generally difficult to find an employer who is willing to help us solve our identity before or immediately after graduation. If you can't find an employer and don't want to continue to work hard, the game is over and go home;
L second day: draw lots
After graduation, there is only one opportunity to get a work visa through job opportunities every April: because the number of applicants is far more than the number of applicants, it is necessary to draw lots to decide who can get a work visa. In recent years, the probability of winning prizes for undergraduates is below 30%, and that for doctors is around 50%. If you can't get it, it is theoretically the end of a game;
Unless you are a STEM graduate (four letters correspond to science, technology, engineering and mathematics), you will have at most three chances to draw lots, and other majors will only have one year to draw lots after graduation; If you really don't want to, you have to go to school to register, pay tuition, and then stay in the United States to participate in the next year's lottery as F 1 During the waiting period, you can hardly work legally to earn money, which is basically a waste of youth.
Many famous students, unlucky, have not painted for several years and returned to China in despair.
L the third mountain: the boss applies for a green card
If you win the lottery, congratulations. After you get a work visa (called H 1b), you can finally go through the last hurdle-the boss will help you apply for a green card. H 1b is 6 years at most, and the spouse cannot work. If the boss doesn't apply for a green card within six years, game over will go home. All previous efforts were in vain.
If the boss helps to apply for a green card, he will apply for immigration through the employer-sponsored category, that is, EB(employment-base).
In principle, H 1b and immigration application can be made at the same time, and even if H 1b is not applied, EB immigration can be directly applied. Overtaking in this corner is extremely rare, which will be mentioned in "Ordinary Path" later.
Ways to make big money:
If you don't have 4 million yuan of investable assets, you don't have to look at it without a company at home.
There are two common ways to make big money:
1.EB5 Investment immigrants
It has been 500,000 cases, and now it seems that the price will be increased to 1.35 million dollars.
The difficulty of this kind of project lies in
A. Find a reliable project (the project may go wrong, resulting in the loss of green card and money);
B. Prove that the source of investment funds of USD 500,000+is reasonable and legal (if the source of funds cannot be proved, the application cannot be made);
C. Prove that the project has generated enough jobs ($500,000 must support 10 jobs, otherwise the money will be wasted);
D. At present, there is still the problem of scheduling: it may take 6-8 years to get a green card to go to the United States, which is too slow for many people.
2. Transfer from L 1 to EB 1c or apply for EB 1c directly.
This kind of premise is that a China company will build a new company or acquire a company in the United States.
So the people who can do this are basically either business owners or employees of multinational companies, all of whom are sent by the company. If you are not an employee of a multinational company and have no company at home, you don't have to consider it.
If the friend of the business owner is willing to help you, it involves going out to build/acquire the money of overseas companies in the name of the business owner company. Don't operate if you don't trust me.
L 1 is a work visa issued to managers and above of multinational companies. The validity period is only 1 year. If it is renewed in the second year, it depends on whether the operating conditions of American companies are true. Overseas companies should recruit people and have cash flow. L 1 7 years at most according to the situation. The game is over before you get the green card. It's great that L 1' s spouse can work in America.
So how do you get a green card with this?
Overseas companies should operate well enough (there is no uniform standard), with beautiful running water and many employees. In this way, you can apply for EB 1c multinational entrepreneur immigration.
The advantage of this is that it is fast. The fastest time from application to getting a green card is 1.5 years.
If you have no confidence in overseas operations, you can directly use domestic companies to acquire a more reliable company that has already operated in the United States (the higher the purchase price, the more reliable it is), accounting for 5 1% and above. This kind can skip L 1 and apply for EB 1c directly. However, it may not be 100% successful.
Ordinary people path:
Ordinary people basically sponsor immigrants through employers. That is, the aforementioned EB class.
Can be divided into skilled and unskilled.
For example, cooks, gardeners, carers and other people who need certain skills can apply for employer-sponsored immigration based on EB3 technology if there is a suitable employer to recruit people. I can hardly find an employer, and this market price is at least 700,000. Get a green card after 3-5 years and go to the United States to work for your employer for one year.
If you have no skills, poor English and little money, you can only apply for EB3 unskilled employers to sponsor immigrants. Employers who recruit people all the year round, such as chicken processing plants, labor outsourcing companies, fast food restaurants, farms and so on. In the United States, these categories of workers are in short supply all the year round, so we can recruit workers all year round. But this kind of serious injury needs a long waiting time, and China people will take off in 8- 10. That is, it took 8- 10 years to land in the United States and get a green card. I have to work when I go. Many people have to work for a year in their fifties and sixties. I'm also surprised that most of them can eat well.
Although this kind of time is long, don't be afraid, because there is an institutional guarantee: after one or two years, you can leave a lifelong file number in the US Immigration Service, so that you can occupy a place in the immigration queue in the United States. Even if the employer has problems in the later period, another employer can continue to apply without waiting for the schedule again. This kind is also very cheap. Looking for a professional company, such as Max to go abroad, is currently cost-effective, and it can be done within 500,000 yuan.
Top molecular path:
If you are not well-known in an industry, you don't have to read it.
EB 1 In addition to the above-mentioned large multinational entrepreneur EB 1c, EB 1 is also open to outstanding talents in other fields.
"People with outstanding abilities in art, science, business, education or sports must prove that they have won unanimous praise from the whole country or the world for a long time. Its achievements must be proved by a large number of extensive documents in this field, and the foreigner has reached the professional level that only a few top talents have. "
There are some specific standards that ordinary people will shrink back from:
If you don't reach the above level, but feel that you still have some skills, there is actually another one named NIW, which belongs to EB2. The full name is national interest immunity.
This kind of standard is more general, but it is not applicable to ordinary people. Consult an experienced lawyer specifically, and the advice of the lawyer shall prevail.
A crooked road:
Don't even suggest crooked ways at your own risk.
1.Politics BH: At that time, new york and California were full of law firms doing this, but it is not easy to do it now.
2. Commercial marriage: also known as fake marriage, is risky. If the interview has the slightest hint, it will be over. Besides, since we are married, we need to live together for a period of time. In short, the US government is not stupid, and it is not easy to crack down.
3. Join the army: those who are not afraid of death can try, but it is said that they will crush their heads.
The road to overseas luck:
1. Going to the United States to have a baby: the cost is low, and the child can become an American baby in one step. At present, the baby's identity is still relatively easy to operate, and there are still ways to go to public schools when returning to China. However, it is more troublesome for parents to maintain their children's identity, and they should often go abroad to change their documents for their children; In addition, parents can only apply for identity when their children 18 years old. If you want to take your child to the United States to accompany your child to early school, parents can only use tourist visas and stay for half a year at a time. High-frequency words may be refused entry at the customs. Therefore, some families who go to the United States to give birth will also choose EB3 immigrants as a supplement.
2. If you have a passport from another country, you can draw lots to immigrate: the probability of winning the lottery is relatively low, and it is reasonable to draw for many years. Leave it to fate.
3. Both husband and wife are immigrants sponsored by EB3 employers, born in overseas areas (outside Chinese mainland, the Philippines, Mexico and India), and can go global. The whole family can get a green card in two years at the earliest. Except for high speed, other requirements are the same as those mentioned above.
4. Rich people with foreign passports can go to E2, which is also a work/investment visa similar to L 1. He can invest in America and live in America soon. But in the end, getting a green card still depends on conventional channels, such as EB 1c or EB5. China citizenship is out of the question.