The first American marriage immigration application strategy
I. Marrying an American citizen Generally speaking, when you apply for a green card by marrying an American citizen, you will have three choices:
(1) Married in China, waiting for China green card;
(2) get married in China, then come to the United States with a K-3 visa and wait for a green card in the United States;
(3) Do not get married in China, but come to the United States with a K- 1 visa, marry an American citizen within three months after arriving in the United States, and then apply for a green card.
Second, marry a green card holder.
Except for the immediate family members of American citizens, most kinds of relatives immigrants are restricted by immigration quotas. American immigration law divides these relatives who need to wait in line for immigration places into four priority categories, namely:
First: adult unmarried children of American citizens;
Second priority: this priority category is further divided into two categories, namely 2A: spouses of green card holders and unmarried children under 2 1 year old; 2B: Adult unmarried children of green card holders;
Third priority: married children of American citizens;
Fourth priority: brothers and sisters of American citizens.
When you apply for a green card after marrying a green card holder, you belong to the second priority category 2A above. Because the above-mentioned immigrants are restricted by the immigration quota, that is, there is a certain amount of green cards issued each year, so you must wait in line for dispatch. The so-called scheduling refers to the date when you first submitted your immigration application. Your timetable shows your position in the queue waiting for the immigration quota. The State Council publishes the timetable every month, and you can only get a green card if your timetable is not later than the date on the timetable published by the State Council.
When you are waiting for a green card in China, if your spouse holding a green card becomes an American citizen, you can immediately transfer to the green card application procedure for the spouse of an American citizen mentioned in the previous article. In other words, you can come to the United States with a K-3 visa and wait for a green card in the United States, so you don't have to wait for the schedule.
Third, marry non-immigrants.
When you marry a person with non-immigrant status in the United States, the way you come to the United States generally depends on your spouse's non-immigrant status. If the spouse holds F- 1 (student) status, he can come to the United States with an F-2 visa. If you have children, as long as your children were under 18 when you got married and are still unmarried and under 2 1, they can also come to the United States with an F-2 visa. If your spouse holds H- 1, you and your children can come to the United States with H-4. If your spouse is L- 1, you and your children can enter the United States with an L-2 visa. When the spouse is E- 1 or E-2, you and your children also enter the country as E- 1 or E-2. In addition to coming to the United States as a non-immigrant spouse, you can also apply for your own non-immigrant visa (such as H or L visa) before or after marriage.
In the process of getting married with a non-immigrant and applying for a green card, we should skillfully use the "time difference" to catch a "free ride" in time. In other words, if you want to marry a non-immigrant, you should get married before he/she gets a green card. Hitchhiking here means that when the main applicant applies for a green card, you become a derivative beneficiary by marrying the main applicant, and the derivative beneficiary will get a green card with the main applicant, which is permanent. Otherwise, when you miss the ride, that is, when you marry him/her after he/she gets the green card, you will fall to the second place among your relatives. Because the second priority is waiting, your green card will enter a long waiting period. And when you get a green card, if you have been married for less than two years, you will get a temporary green card, and you must submit an application to the immigration office before the temporary green card expires, so that the temporary green card can be turned into a permanent green card.
Article 2 Benefits of immigrating to the United States
First, the employment advantage.
With a green card, there will be no restrictions on working in America. In order to protect the interests of Americans, many jobs in the United States (high-tech, biochemical, military and other research, production, security work) are not open to foreigners, even if foreigners have corresponding knowledge and expertise. This situation makes international students in an extremely unequal competitive situation with American students when they look for jobs after graduating from college. Green card holders can turn this "disadvantage" into "advantage".
If you really can't find a job, the US government also has a special agency to find jobs for our people free of charge. Green card holders can get free basic employment skills (such as computer and English) training as long as they register in this department. At the same time, the organization will also provide corresponding job opportunities according to the skills, expertise and interests of the registrant.
Second, the tuition advantage.
Tuition is an expensive investment for students studying in the United States. Students who get a green card can attend all public primary and secondary schools in the United States for free before 18 years old. At university, students who immigrate to the United States can enjoy the same tuition as local students. Take the University of California at Berkeley as an example. Local students only need more than $65,438+00,000 for one-year undergraduate tuition, while international students need to pay $36,000.
In addition, green card holders above 18 can apply for various kinds of student loans after getting a green card. Take the excellent private universities in the United States as an example, the annual tuition fee is as high as 30 thousand dollars; If a green card holder wants to study for a master's degree for two years, he can probably apply for a student loan of 60,000 to 70,000 dollars. In case you can't find a job after graduation, the loan can be paid off temporarily and paid off in years after you find a job. Usually you only need to pay one tenth of your salary every month to repay the loan.
Third, the advantages of admission and scholarship
After having an American green card, in addition to attending public primary and secondary schools, the chances of entering a top university in the university application stage will be greater. Only 65,438+00% of the places in the top 20 universities in the United States will be reserved for international students (including China students). Not only that, quite a few popular majors have high requirements when recruiting international students. After having a green card in the United States, children can enjoy the same admission treatment as American children.
For China students who are interested in applying for American university scholarships, they can only compete with outstanding students from all over the world for very limited scholarship places open to foreigners. But for students with green cards, the scope of scholarships they can enjoy far exceeds the scope that a foreign student can apply for. Because many scholarship institutions in the United States limit scholarships to "Americans." Therefore, after immigrating to the United States, children are far more likely to apply for scholarships than overseas students.
Fourth, retirement benefits.
Green card holders who have paid taxes for 10 years can receive a pension from the US federal government for life after retirement (usually 65 years old) ($65,438+$0,000 ~ $65,438+$0,200 per month). For many immigrants, the number of years of receiving a pension is more than the number of years of paying taxes. In addition, green card holders can apply for buying apartments for low-income elderly people after retirement. You can buy a house subsidized by your country in the United States at about 35% of the market price.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) endowment insurance
American "low-income" green card holders (without tax records) can apply for a "medical card" after retirement, and they can see any disease without spending money, thus avoiding the high medical expenses in the United States and completely relieving the worries of the elderly about illness. For non-low-income people, as long as they have a ten-year accumulated tax record and pay a small amount of insurance after retirement, they don't have to bear the medical expenses themselves.
Article 3 the way of American immigration
With the development of social economy and the improvement of people's living standards, immigration has become a way for many people to start a new life and pursue new goals. America is a big immigrant country, and with its excellent education, many people will consider immigrating to America.
Before applying for immigration to the United States, we must first have a general understanding of the immigration methods in the United States, know roughly what the basic types of American immigrants are, and form a general outline in our minds, which will help us choose the most suitable immigration methods.
What we usually call American immigrants is to get a green card in the United States. The concept of a green card is to obtain permanent residency in the United States. Once you get a green card, you can work and live anywhere in America. After getting a green card for five years, you can be sworn in as an American citizen. If you don't want to be naturalized, there is no legal requirement for green card holders in the United States, which means that we usually say that there is no immigration director in the United States, and you only need to land in the United States once every six months (except Guam).
Relatives immigrants account for the vast majority of all immigrants. If you have eligible relatives in the United States who are citizens or green card holders, they can submit an application to the immigration office to confirm your relationship, so you can get a green card.
Relatives who can apply for a green card include spouses, parents, children, brothers and sisters of American citizens, spouses and unmarried children of green card holders. Although the amount of relative migration is large and looks simple, there is a huge drawback that the scheduling period is too long, ranging from 6- 12 years.
Professional immigrants, immigrate to the United States through working relationships. It is divided into EB- 1, EB-2, EB-3, EB-4 and EB-5.
EB- 1 is divided into three categories: immigrants with special skills (mainly in the fields of science, art, education, commerce and sports); Outstanding professors and researchers emigrated; Directors and managers of multinational companies immigrate.
EB-2 is mainly for immigrants with high academic qualifications and immigrants with outstanding skills in the fields of art, science and commerce.
EB-3 is mainly aimed at immigrants of professionals, skilled workers or other unskilled workers.
EB-4 is a special kind of professional immigrant, including religious people, employees of embassies and consulates outside the United States, and retirees from international organizations.
EB-5 is an investment immigrant. It is an immigrant visa for business investors who invest 1 10,000 or 500,000 US dollars in the United States and create at least 10 jobs in the United States.
A great phenomenon brought about by the improvement of national economic level is that more and more people plan to invest overseas and then immigrate smoothly. Among them, investment immigration is one of the popular immigration methods. Its advantage is that it can get a green card in the United States in the shortest time, which meets the requirements of a large number of China people.
In addition, there are asylum/refugee immigrants and special types of immigrants. Let's get a general idea:
Asylum/refugee immigrants refer to people who are persecuted or afraid of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, special social organization or political position, and can apply for immigration to the United States within one year after obtaining asylum/refugee status.
Special types of immigrants refer to the types of immigrants who meet the special conditions stipulated by law, including: children of American citizens in five Asian countries, American Indians born in Canada, members of the US military, Cuban nationals, green card lottery, Haitian refugees, parole adjustment bill in three Asian countries, informants, former Russian paroled immigrants, legal immigrant family balance bill, children of diplomatic envoys, registered immigrants, diplomats, special minors, criminal victims and victims of human trafficking.
These two types of immigrants are extremely special circumstances, and ordinary people cannot apply. Therefore, those who want to apply for immigration to the United States must fully grasp the application priority of relatives and professional immigrants in order to realize their wishes.