What is the EB-5 Visa? The EB-5 Visa is an Immigrant Investor Permanent Residence…
What is the EB-5 Visa?
The EB-5 Visa is an Immigrant Investor Permanent Residence or Green Card which offers permanent residency in the U.S. for investors who spends 500,00 dollars or 1 million for unemployment areas, where they will employ 10 or more legal permanent resident employees in a US company.
What Is a Family Green Card?
An immigrant visa that is issued based on a qualifying family relationship that exists between a foreign national applicant and a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident is a family-based green card.
Among other green card categories in the United States, it is one of the most popular ways of obtaining permanent residency.
This type of Green Card has two categories:
immediate relatives of United States citizens and family preference.
How long would it take to get the 2022 Green Card?
The whole process takes a minimum of about three to five months.
The Green Card process starts when the papers are ready to be processed, after that they are forwarded to the embassy or consulate involved. You will be asked to file and pay the necessary fees for an Affidavit of Support (Form I-864) and more.
Which Forms should a Petitioner file for your Green Card?
When applying for a Green Card, in most cases applicants need someone else in the United States to file a petition for them and complete a few Forms.
The most common Forms are:
Form I-130 (Petition for Alien Relative);
Form I-730 (Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition),
Form I-589 (Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal)
and Form I-140 (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker).
Other Forms which are less common are: Form I-918 (Petition of U Nonimmigrant Status); Form I-929 (Petition for Qualifying Family Member of a U-1 Nonimmigrant); Form I-360 (Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special Immigrant) and Form I-526 (Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur).
The most common and best ways to apply and receive a Green Card is through family, employment, refugee or asylee status, as a special immigrant and through a registry (diversity visa lottery).
Benefits of a Green Card for family members!
It gives you the opportunity to sponsor your immediate family members and give them the right to stay with you in the United States if you hold a US Green Card.
Remember, “Immediate family members” are identified as unmarried children under 21 years of age, parents, and spouses by US Immigration.
So if you want to sponsor an extended family member then, that is also possible!
Not all asylum applicants will need to be interviewed.
While the application for Asylum and supporting documents are part of the process to be sent to the USCIS, the interview will concentrate solely on eligibility for permanent residence adjustment and not on the underlying request for asylum.
How many Employment-based Green Cards are issued per year?
The quota for employment-based immigrants is 140,000 per year.
This means, every year there are almost twice as many applications being sent for this type of Green Card.
