Introduction of American skilled immigrants

American immigrants, the conditions for obtaining a green card by different immigration methods are different. Let me introduce the types of skilled immigrants in the United States, hoping to help friends who have this intention.

L 1 visa

L 1 visa is one of the entry permits for foreign businessmen and foreign experts to work in the United States for a long time. Mainly to encourage foreign enterprises to do business and invest in the United States.

L 1 Visa is applicable to all kinds of enterprises (multinational companies) in China doing business in the United States, and employees with enterprise experience or special skills need to be dispatched or mobilized to work in the United States. China enterprises need to set up branches in the United States, and the staff sent to the United States can use L- 1A and L- 1B visas. The former is issued to the managers or supervisors of branches in the United States, and their stay in the United States can be up to 7 years. The latter is issued to its professionals, who can stay in the United States for up to five years. Holders of L 1A and their immediate family members. The law allows such applicants' spouses and children under the age of 2 1 to accompany them. L 1 The holder's family members can work in the United States, and their children enjoy free education benefits in the United States.

The L 1A visa for managers of multinational companies is one of the most accepted visas in recent years. The main requirement for candidates is that they must be leaders or managers of enterprises in China (including general manager, deputy general manager, office director, or managers of certain departments of the company, such as finance department and business department manager, etc. ). As long as these people have held the above positions in China company for more than one year at the time of applying for L- 1 visa, and the company intends to do business in the United States, they can start to apply for L- 1. L 1A visa was a non-immigrant visa at the time of application. However, according to the relevant regulations issued by American immigrants, holders of L 1 visas and their families can change their immigration status within a certain period of time and directly obtain permanent residency in the United States. In the process of applying for a visa at the consulate, the visa officer shall not refuse the visa because the L- 1 visa gives the applicant the freedom to immigrate or not in the immigration law.

Applicant L 1 was assigned by the head office or parent company in China to work in a branch or subsidiary in the United States. If there are no branches or subsidiaries in the United States, the head office or parent company needs to start by setting up branches or subsidiaries. Employees of the above two companies can apply to the US Immigration Bureau for permanent residence status, which is commonly called "green card", after setting up branches or subsidiaries in the United States for one year, and are not subject to any immigration quota. When the applicant's application is approved, his accompanying family members can also get a green card at the same time.

L 1 visa application conditions

1. There must be a company in China, and the company must operate normally. Generally, the registration time is not less than two years, and there is no industry restriction;

2. The applicant has worked in China Company for more than one year and must be an employee of the management of the company;

3. Register a branch in the United States in the name of China Company, and send employees to the branch to manage the business.

Note: Applicants who have no company in China, as long as they are managers and have a college degree or above, can be hired as senior managers in many companies under our group, and sent to the United States with L 1 visa after training and guidance.

L- 1 Advantages of visa

65438 +0. L- 1 Visa is not restricted by bilateral trade and investment treaties.

2.L- 1 Visa has no restrictions on the size of American subsidiaries.

3. American subsidiaries don't need to do exactly the same business as overseas parent companies.

4. You can apply for a green card: American L 1 Visa holders can directly apply for a green card in the form of the first priority labor immigrant (Weibo) one year after the establishment of the American company, and they can directly obtain permanent residency in the United States without any restrictions on the number of immigrants.

5. Fast application: US L 1 visa does not need to wait for quotas and scheduling, and the application and approval time is short.

6. Multi-person application: To set up a branch in the United States, the head office in China can generally send 2-3 people.

7. Spouses and minor children under the age of 2/kloc-0 sent by domestic parent companies can go to the United States by applying for L-2 visas.

8. There is no academic language requirement.

2 EB-3 visa

According to American immigration law, there are 140000 places for professional immigrants every year. These 65,438+040,000 places are allocated to five priority types. Most professional immigration applications require applicants to submit the I- 140 immigration application form to the Immigration Bureau. Some professional immigrant applicants need to apply for a work permit.

EB-3 includes three specific categories:

Skilled workers: applicants must be competent for jobs that require at least two years of training or work experience; Professional and technical personnel: applicants with bachelor degree;

Other workers: the applicant can be competent for jobs that do not require two years of training or work experience; EB3 is a kind of American professional immigrants, which can be divided into skilled and unskilled categories:

Technical category: more than two years working experience is required, such as chef, electrician, etc.

Non-technical categories: cleaners, food processing plants, planters, breeders, butchers, etc. This is the most common in China, and I have no work experience.

Specific requirements:

1. The age is between 2 1 and 55 years old, and the upper age limit is relatively large;

2. No English requirements;

3. Good health, normal intelligence and no criminal record;

4. More than two years of full-time training or work experience;

5. The requirements for academic qualifications are not high, especially for non-technical ones, only junior high school education or above is required.

Hearing time for the third priority professional immigrants (skilled/unskilled workers EB-3):

1. It takes 3-6 months from signing the contract to applying for the employment guarantee letter of the employer;

2. It takes 6-8 months from the approval process submitted to the state labor bureau, and then the labor bureau reports that it takes 6-8 months for the federal labor department to obtain a labor card;

3. I 140 applied for work card approval, and 12- 18 months after the normal receipt of I797 approval;

4. The name is reversed for 3-6 months.