Introduction to the conditions of wanting to immigrate to the United States

1. Conditions for wanting to immigrate to the United States

1. What are the requirements for immigration to the United States? After obtaining permanent residency, you must live in the United States for five consecutive years. This is the minimum residence period for naturalization. Within five years, you can't leave the United States for more than six months in a row. If it is more than half a year, you must provide proof that you have no intention of giving up the right of abode in the United States.

Therefore, it is necessary to extend the naturalization application time accordingly and recalculate the residence time in the United States. You must have lived in the United States for at least three years and at least half of the legal period before you can apply for naturalization from the US Immigration Department.

2. A foreign citizen who marries an American citizen must remain married for two years before both husband and wife can apply for naturalization to the Immigration Bureau.

The new immigration law stipulates that foreign citizens who are married to American citizens or permanent residents should apply for naturalization as soon as possible as long as they meet the conditions for applying for American citizenship, so as to become American citizens as soon as possible and enjoy all the rights as American citizens. But the prerequisite must be a marriage relationship that lasts for more than two years.

3. When applying for naturalization, you must live in the United States for the last six months of five consecutive years and live in the local state or city for at least six months.

4. Applicants for naturalization must be at least 18 years old. Foreigners under the age of 16 who have permanent residency in the United States can automatically acquire American citizenship with their parents. However, children aged between 16 and 18 must apply for naturalization independently.

If the child is under the age of 18, and one parent is an American citizen and the other parent is a foreigner, before the child reaches the age of 18, the parent with American citizenship can apply for naturalization on his behalf.

You must have basic English reading, listening, speaking and writing skills. Applicants for naturalization should know a certain degree of English and have a certain English ability. When the staff of the Immigration Bureau examine the naturalization qualification, they will conduct an oral test, and the naturalization applicant will answer the knowledge about American history and the American government in English. In this way, we can examine the practical English expression ability of naturalization applicants.

American immigrants also exempt applicants over 55 who have obtained permanent residency in the United States 15 years or more from visas and switch to their own languages.

6. What are the immigration conditions in the United States? You must behave well during your five years in America. According to American immigration law, having sex with others or bigamy, failing to perform maintenance obligations, drinking alcohol, etc. are all bad behaviors and cannot be naturalized.

7. What are the immigration conditions in the United States? You must have some knowledge of American history, constitution and immigration law. It is mainly about the understanding of important events, figures, government agencies and rights in American history, as well as the understanding of the principles and important amendments of the American Constitution.

8. Applicants for citizenship must give up their original nationality. If they still want to keep their original nationality, they cannot become American citizens.

2. Advantages and processes of American investment immigrants

First, the advantages of American investment immigrants

1. Applicants only need to prove the legal source of personal funds, regardless of language, education, age or business background.

2. After obtaining the green card, you can freely enter and leave the United States without being restricted by the immigration supervisor, which will not affect your normal business and life in China.

3. You don't need to start your own business, and you don't need to personally participate in business management. If you don't directly hire 10 employees, you can indirectly create jobs.

4. Spouses and unmarried children under 2 1 year-old can get American green cards at the same time and enjoy the same benefits as American citizens; The applicant's children can enjoy free basic education in the United States and have priority to enter many excellent universities in the United States.

Second, the process of American investment immigration projects

Improve all immigration application materials.

The investor will remit the investment amount and the project issuance fee to the supervision account at one time.

Submit all application materials to the US Immigration Bureau for approval.

The US Immigration Service will complete the examination and approval within two months after receiving it. After approval, the applicant will receive the package sent by the State Council within 45-60 days, and this information must be filled in before the interview date of the consulate. Applicants who are not approved will return their original investment principal and interest deposited in the supervision account.

The consulate informed investors of the interview date and asked them to have a health check-up. Generally speaking, this stage of operation will take one to two months.

During the interview at the consulate, the immigration officer informed the investors of the interview results on the spot.

Investors must go to the United States within 180 days after obtaining the visa. Investors can move their families to any state they want to live in and enjoy a new life with equal rights and interests with American citizens. In the next two years, investors can freely enter and leave the United States during this period, but they need to live for more than half a year each year.

2 1 after the investor entered the United States (that is, three months before the expiration of the conditional visa), the investor submitted the I-829 application form and requested to cancel the conditions.

The investor's visa conditions were cancelled and he became a formal permanent resident.

At the expiration of the five-year investment period, the investor gets back the investment amount of 500,000 US dollars. Investors can choose whether to become American citizens.

3. Application process of American employer-sponsored immigrants

Review the information of the applicant;

After signing the contract, submit the materials to an American lawyer to sign an employment agreement;

Apply for a labor permit (LC) from the US Bureau of Labor (DOL);

Submit I- 140 immigration application and get the admission notice;

Letter of approval after examination and approval by the Immigration Bureau;

NVC national visa center documents;

Go to the consulate for an interview;

Landing in the United States and working for an American employer for at least one year;

The whole family got green cards.

The work permit needs to be submitted to the Ministry of Labor together with the applicant's information and the employer's information, that is, the applicant can apply for the work permit only after obtaining the first batch of materials. Generally, you can receive a confirmation letter from the Ministry of Labor within 3 days. The confirmation letter contains the date of receipt and the document number of the Ministry of Labor.