What Happens After the Green Card Interview? If your Green Card Interview went well…
What Happens After the Green Card Interview?
If your Green Card Interview went well then the next step is to wait for the officer’s decision.
Waiting for the answer depends on the type of Visa and what was discussed in the interview so it depends, but sometimes you can get the answer right after the interview and sometimes you might have to wait a few weeks or months before a decision is made.
Make sure you provide all the documentation you need at the interview to make the waiting process shorter.
Can a green card holder sponsor a friend?
Unfortunately, only family members can sign the petition for the immigrant Visa or Green Card.
What you can do, though is file an I-864 (Affidavit of Support) form, which is a way to fund your friend’s immigration petition.
What is the difference between a citizen and resident?
A citizen nowadays, is considered to be someone who belongs to a country legally, whereas, a resident is considered to be someone who is legally living or working in a city, state or maybe even university or hospital for a specific amount of time.
Who can Apply for Asylum?
If you are at a port of entry or in the United States, you may request asylum.
Regardless of your immigration status, and within one year of your arrival in the United States, you can apply for asylum.
A computer algorithm randomly selects the winners of the Diversity Visa lottery, with a certain number of visas allocated to each region of the world and no country obtains more than 7% of the available Diversity Visas throughout the year.
How to Get a Family Green Card?
This type of Green Card must be sponsored by a green card holder or U.S. citizen.
To be able to sponsor the green card both the petitioner and the beneficiary must prove their familial relationship to proceed.
The petitioner has to:
file an I-130 Form,
submit the I-864 Form and submit biographic proof.
As for the beneficiary, they have to: file an I-485 Form if they are in the U.S. physically while on a valid visa, take the consular processing if they are not physically present in the U.S., also submit biographical info and complete the medical examinations.
After all these steps are approved, the beneficiary will have to attend the interview, where a final decision will be made after!
Having a Green Card and wanting to study in the United States is a big advantage because higher tuition fees are charged to out-of-state and foreign students by many universities, colleges and technical schools.
Because you would be considered an in-state resident, you would not have to pay the same tuition fees other international students pay.
If the tuition fees are still too much for you then, you can also apply for financial aid to help you with the costs!
What is the EB-1 Visa?
EB-1 or Employment-Based Extraordinary Ability Green Card (First Preference) is a type of employment-based permanent residency Visa which includes foreign nationals with outstanding abilities, extraordinary professors/researchers, or multinational managers/entrepreneurs.
