Educational treatment of children after immigrating to the United States

1. Educational treatment of children after immigrating to the United States

1, American education system

American schools are divided into public schools and private schools. The public school system is huge, because it is funded by the American government, so most students in the United States study in the public education system. The United States implements a compulsory education system of 12, and all public schools in the country are free, aged 6- 18. Students basically go to school nearby, and the teaching quality of different schools in different school districts will be different. The quality of teaching in school districts with small population and high housing prices is relatively higher.

On the whole, the American education system can be divided into four stages, namely preschool education, primary education, secondary education and higher education. Preschool education, primary education and secondary education all belong to pre-university education, including nurseries and kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools.

The general content of preschool education in the United States does not particularly emphasize anything, but only some basic skills such as entering the school, communicating in the park, joining the league, holding a pen and so on. What I have learned are very life-like things, such as letters, numbers, shapes, colors, seasons and my own understanding. Preschool educators in the United States believe that preschool education should start at home, not at kindergarten. Because family education is personalized and one-on-one. Kindergartens in the United States will give parents a study report to let them know about their children's learning progress and areas that need to be strengthened. The evaluation of a child's performance is based on whether he can use scissors, draw or draw lines.

American primary education has a low level of imparting general knowledge, a late time, a small proportion of teaching hours every day, rich and vivid activities in school, few and interesting homework, extensive contact with nature and society, development of students' personality, and emphasis on cultivating organizational, speech and social skills.

The penetration rate of secondary education in the United States is almost the same, and all school-age teenagers can go to school. The junior high school system varies from state to state. Some states have two years of junior high school and four years of senior high school, and some states have three years of junior high school and senior high school respectively. Schools are divided into public schools and private schools. Public schools are funded by the government and students are free.

2. Advantages of American education

In a United Nations education index of 2 1 country, the United States scored 99.9, ranking first in the world. 76.6 million students are in grade 16. Among them, in the compulsory education stage, 5.2 million people (10.4%) attended private schools. Of the adult population in this country, 85% graduated from middle school, and 27% obtained a bachelor's degree or above.

Among the top 10 universities in the world, the United States occupies 8; Among the top 100 schools, the United States accounts for 50, which are large in scale and full in variety, paying attention to students' acquisition of knowledge and cultivating analytical ability and originality.

3. Educational benefits for children of American immigrants.

Student tuition:/kloc-before going to college at the age of 0/8, all public primary and secondary schools in the United States will implement compulsory education, that is, zero tuition; After going to college, American immigrant students only need to pay the same tuition as local students, saving 2/3 of the tuition compared with ordinary international students.

School Scholarships: The chances of applying for scholarships are much greater than those of overseas students, whose scholarships are limited and the competition is fierce.

People with green cards can get a wider range of scholarships. And many scholarship restrictions only apply to "Americans" (people with permanent residency in the United States)

Student loans: Green card holders with a ratio of 18 or more can apply for various student loans in the year when they get their green cards. After graduation, you don't have to pay back immediately if you don't have a job. After you have a stable job, you will pay back in installments.

Free employment: successful immigrant students don't have to worry about leaving the United States because they can't get a visa and have no job after graduation. Every year, about/kloc-0.0 million people face the embarrassing situation of leaving the United States because they can't get visas.

2. Pre-registration Instructions for American Immigrants

1, clothes

The box that can hold luggage is very big, so you don't need to bring too many extra clothes. Besides, American clothes and shoes are very cheap and of good quality. Never buy clothes on purpose, unless it's Eurocontrol, you can bring some. Otherwise, it is enough to bring a few sets of clothes that are out of season. Shoes are the same, just like festivals, just bring a few pairs to change. You can bring a pair of plastic slippers for bathing, a toothbrush and toothpaste, which are generally not provided in hotels here.

Step 2 eat

Don't think that you can't buy Chinese food in America. China has more varieties of dry goods in the United States than in your hometown. Because immigrants from all over China live here, the local products in Asian supermarkets are richer than those in your hometown! Especially in Atlanta, there are many Asians and China people, as well as Korean supermarkets and Vietnamese supermarkets. You have a lot of food choices, so wait until you settle down in America.

Step 3 be alive

There is nothing to say about the house. You can choose several hundred to one million houses at will. Before coming to America, make a proof of your bank's capital. When you buy a house here, the seller needs to see your proof of funds when providing it. Then, before you come, transfer the money to someone your parents and family can trust. As soon as you land, open an account in the bank, and they can transfer money for you in China.

Step 4: ok

You can rent a car for a while before applying for a local driver's license. In that case, you need to bring your domestic driver's license. If your driver's license is not in English, you can go to the notary office to notarize it in English. In America, you need a written test to get a driver's license. Some states have written Chinese, while others don't. Moreover, the driver's manual is also in English. You can download it online, watch it more when you have time and practice your English!

5. Health care

As we all know, medical care in the United States is very expensive, so please make full preparations before going to the United States. For example, if you go to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination, you will be treated in time if you find any problems. If you have a chronic disease, you should bring medicine at a certain time. Of course, you should bring your medical records. You may be asked to provide medical records in the case of spot checks by the customs. Please take Chinese medicine with care, because some important ingredients are unknown. If you take a lot, you will be in trouble.

In addition, everyone must look at their teeth. Adults will remove wisdom teeth, saving the trouble of inflammation in the future. Children whose teeth haven't come out should also go to the dentist to have all their cavities filled. Even the deciduous teeth need to be repaired here.

3. Legal documents for applying for US investment immigration EB-5

With the continuous development of economy, more and more people choose to apply for EB-5, and at the same time, more and more American investment immigration projects are pouring into China. Faced with a variety of projects, many investment immigrants are at a loss. At the same time, many applicants do not understand the reasonable and legal application procedures, especially the relevant documents involved, and the application failure is inevitable. When applying for EB-5, it is very important to choose the appropriate EB-5 project, especially the following important documents. Without any of them, the behavior of subscribing for the project will be missing.

1. Memorandum of Private Offering

Private placement memorandum, abbreviated as PPM in English. This is one of the core documents of EB-5 project of American investment immigration. This document is a legal document written by the project party to meet the disclosure compliance requirements of the Securities Law, and it is also a legal document on the project provided by the project party to interested investors, which has legal effect. Private placement memoranda do not require the signature of investors.

PPM reflects the specific situation of investment projects and is the basic document for investors to evaluate and judge projects. Usually, PPM will clearly describe the risk, specific composition and investment guarantee of the project. The more mature the project, the more detailed the memorandum.

2. Business plan

Business plan is one of the core documents written to meet the compliance requirements of immigration law and immigration policy, and to prove that the projects invested by investors meet the requirements of I-526 immigration (especially the requirements of creating jobs). The business plan will be attached to the I-924 model demonstration application of EB-5 investment project and the I-526 application of investors and submitted to the Immigration Bureau, which is the main document reviewed by the Immigration Bureau when judging whether the job creation forecast is reliable.

Business plan is the information to judge the quality of the project, including project budget expenditure, implementation progress, income expectation, employment expectation and so on. And enable investors to look at the project risk from the project itself.

3. Subscription agreement

The subscription agreement requires the signature of the investor. This document embodies the process of investors obtaining the qualification of limited liability limited partner by subscribing to the project, and guarantees the basic rights of investors as limited partners of limited liability partnership enterprises. From the current form of subscription agreement, it is generally divided into two categories: creditor's rights or equity. If the investor participates in the EB-5 investment project in the United States in the form of equity, the project will also issue the equity certificate to the investor after the regional center invests the funds in the project.

4. Supervision agreement

The investment funds of most American EB-5 investors will not enter the bank accounts of the projects invested by the regional center before the I-526 temporary green card is passed, but will enter the third-party custody bank accounts for supervision. This agreement clarifies the fund supervision bank and supervision rules for investors to subscribe for projects, so as to ensure the safety of investors' funds. The agreement needs to be signed by investors.

5. Operating contract

According to the different structure of fund companies, it can be divided into two types: limited partnership system and limited liability company agreement system. In either form, the rights, obligations, investment ratio, investment relationship, legal order and other contents between investors as limited partners (LP) or shareholders of limited liability companies (LLCM) and the regional center are defined, and the document needs the signature of investors.

In addition to the above important documents, in fact, some relevant supplementary documents are needed to apply for EB-5 investment immigration in the United States, such as the approval letter from the central domain center of EB-5 investment project.

4. Introduction of EB-5 Principal Applicant of American Investment Immigrants

When applying for EB-5, as long as the applicant is 13 years old at the time of signing the contract, it can ensure the smooth fingerprint collection after one year, the project is a legal framework of limited partnership (generally speaking, a regional center project), and at least one parent or guardian signs the contract, all the signing documents still have complete legal effect and can be recognized by the US Immigration Service.

Looking through the data of EB-5 who applied for American investment immigration in recent years, we can see that most people choose American investment immigration for the education of their children, which makes most applicants face a problem, that is, the age of their children.

American Immigration Law (INA) has no mandatory minimum age requirement for the principal applicant, but all countries in the world have minimum age requirements for the so-called capacity for civil conduct. According to the laws of our country, people under the age of 18 do not have full capacity for civil conduct, and agreements signed by people without full capacity for civil conduct have no legal effect. However, according to the laws of the United States and China, under certain conditions, people without civil capacity can also make up for the lack of capacity caused by independent signing in a prescribed way, so that the signed agreement still has full legal effect.

The minimum age of investment immigration laws in the United States is as follows:

1. American Immigration Law (INA): The specific requirement of this law is that the legal minimum age for "fingerprint collection" before adjusting identity is 14 years old. However, the law also stipulates that the applicant is under 14 years old, and the inability to collect fingerprints does not constitute the reason for the Immigration Bureau to refuse the immigration application. However, the fact that fingerprints cannot be collected will bring complexity that the Immigration Bureau does not want to face in the application process. The time to collect fingerprints is in the stage of identity adjustment, and judging from the average approval time of I-526 announced by the Immigration Bureau, it takes at least one and a half years from signing the contract to collecting fingerprints, plus the filing period, which will not be too short.

2. The company law of the state where the EB-5 project is located in the United States: If the investment legal framework of the EB-5 project is limited partnership, there is no age limit for all partners who join the limited partnership. Usually, EB-5 investors who are limited partners do not participate in the decision-making and management of the limited partnership, so there is no age limit. If the investment legal framework of a project is a limited liability company (LLC), it depends on which state the project is located, and different states have different age restrictions on applicants.

3. US Securities Law: This law has no clear age limit for qualified investors. As long as investors reach a certain level of assets and income and meet one of the conditions of qualified investors, they can sign contracts. If children are the main applicants, most of the investment money comes from gifts from parents and relatives, and you don't have to earn it yourself.

4. Civil Law/Company Law of the place where the contract is signed: China's General Principles of Civil Law and Contract Law stipulate that if the contractor is under the age of 18, only one parent or legal guardian needs to sign the same agreement at the same time to form an effective "civil agency" to ensure the legal effect of the contract.

Combined with the above legal provisions, it can be seen that when applying for EB-5, as long as the applicant is over 13 years old at the time of signing the contract, the fingerprint collection can be ensured smoothly after one year, the project is a legal framework of limited partnership (generally speaking, a regional center project), and at least one parent or guardian signs the contract, all the signing documents still have complete legal effect and can be recognized by the US Immigration Service.

Even so, whether an applicant who is too young can become the principal applicant still needs specific analysis. If the regional center is willing to adjust the signing documents, add legal provisions on the application options for young people, and lawyers are willing to submit applications according to the situation of young people and make further explanations, then even if the main applicant is only 13 years old, there is no problem. Remind applicants who are trapped by their children's age that if they have children as the main applicants for EB-5 investment immigration in the United States, they must communicate with the immigration agencies in advance and coordinate with the regional centers and lawyers of the selected projects to ensure that the regional centers and lawyers can make adjustments for you, so that the children's signature can form an effective legal effect.