The difference between American immigrant green card and ten-year visa

# American Immigration # Introduction 10 The opening of a valid visa in the United States provides convenient conditions for doing business and studying in the United States. As an American green card called "American passport", do the two functions overlap or complement each other? Here's the difference between an American immigrant green card and a ten-year visa. Welcome to read!

The permanent green card for American immigrants does provide convenience for investment applicants to enter and leave the United States, but this is only one of the most basic functions of the American green card. The legal right it represents is the legal duration of stay, and the entry stay time of a visa is strictly limited, not to mention the long-term stay in China. The validity period of a visa is essentially different from the legal period of stay. The extension of the validity of the visa does not mean the extension of the stay in the country. Don't confuse this point. From another point of view, there is no conflict between a green card and a visa, but for different users, the validity period of an open visa will bring more convenient entry and exit conditions, which may have no substantive effect on families who get a green card. However, when visiting relatives in the United States, they will benefit a lot from their relatives and friends, and the liberalization of conditions will only make the road to the United States smoother in the future.

A ten-year visa is not a "green card"

In fact, despite obtaining a multiple-entry visa for B 1/B2 valid for 10 years, the visa holder cannot continue to live in the United States in this capacity for 10 years. Visitors with a B 1/B2 visa will enter the United States within the validity period of the visa, and the immigration officer of the US Department of Homeland Security will decide whether to allow entry and how long to stay in the United States. If you are allowed to enter the country, you will get a signature which will record the legal stay time. The immigration officer will give enough time to stay according to the purpose of the visit. Under normal circumstances, immigration officials can give visa holders B 1/B2 a time limit of six months for each entry into the United States. You must leave the United States when the legal residence period expires.

Secondly, if you extend the legal residence period, you need to submit relevant applications to the US Immigration Service. According to the current immigration law in the United States, overstaying for more than 180 days can be sentenced to three years of ban on entry; If you overstay for more than 1 year, you can be sentenced to1year for entry ban. Even if the overstay is less than 180 days, the immigration officer of the customs will see the record of overstay in the next visit to the United States, and the border inspection has the right to refuse such visitors entry according to the frequency and severity of violations.

Of course, the advantage is that a visa valid for 10 year can make tourists not need to apply for a visa in the next 10 year, which undoubtedly reduces the time required for applying for a visa and the inconvenience caused to travel arrangements, but it does not mean that they can live and work in the United States with such a visa for a long time. B 1/B2 is a tourist visa, not a work visa or an immigrant visa. You can't grant permanent resident status, you can't grant the right to work in the United States, and you can't enjoy the benefits provided by the US government. For those China citizens who want to own real estate in the United States for a long time, holders of B 1/B2 visas cannot enjoy the tax treatment only given to permanent residents. To this end, EB-5 is still the way for people who want to obtain permanent residency in the United States.

Extend the validity of the visa to facilitate studying abroad.

Previously, the longest validity period of American student visas was only 1 year. Many students face the situation that the validity period of American student visa is 1 year after returning home every holiday. Although many students are applying for visas, the short holiday time is still very tight. Therefore, the latest American student visa policy will undoubtedly bring convenience to many students who plan to study in the United States or are studying in the United States, and they don't have to worry about visa invalidation when they stay in China for a short time.

Immigration experts mentioned: "After analyzing many successful cases of American immigrant customers, we can draw an analysis from practical experience that extending the visa period for students studying in the United States is beneficial to children studying in the United States and avoids the trouble of extending the visa for students studying in the United States. However, the extension of the visa period does not mean the extension of the stay in the United States, and it is even more impossible to enjoy the advantages of education, school choice and graduate employment brought by the green card. For example, China students cannot enjoy high admission and low tuition fees in the local area like green card residents. "