How to get an American green card through relative immigration

American relatives immigrants are divided into: relatives immigrants with quota restrictions and immediate relatives immigrants without quota restrictions.

(1) Relocation of relatives with quota restrictions (scheduled for half a year to 12 years)

1. Family priority, with an annual quota of 23,400.

F 1: Unmarried children of American citizens over 2 1, including those born out of wedlock under 2 1, the application process takes about 6 years.

2. Family is the second priority, and the annual quota is 1 14200.

F2A: American permanent residents, that is, spouses of green card holders and only children under the age of 265,438+0, account for at least 77% of the annual quota, and the application process takes about 5 years.

F2B: Unmarried children over 265,438+0 years old of permanent residents in the United States, including those born out of wedlock, account for about 23% of the annual quota, and the application process takes about 9 years.

3. Family is the third priority, with an annual quota of 23,400.

F3: Families of married children of American citizens. The application process takes about 8 years.

4. Family is the fourth priority, with 65,000 places per year.

F4: Brothers and sisters of American citizens and single children under 2 1 year old.

However, another prerequisite for this kind of relative immigration is that American citizens must be at least 2 1 year old.

(2) Immigrants of immediate family members without quota restrictions

The immediate family members of American citizens include their spouses, unmarried children under the age of 265,438+0, unmarried children under the age of 65,438+08 born by spouses and ex-husbands, unmarried children under the age of 65,438+06 legally adopted by American citizens and parents of American citizens over the age of 265,438+0. As immediate family members of American citizens, they can immigrate to the United States at any time, without quota restrictions and green card waiting period.

The main categories are as follows:

Cr 1—— Apply within two years of marriage, and American citizens apply for spouses (CR2 for unmarried children under 2 1). The application process takes about 1 year and 3 months.

IR 1—— After two years of marriage, an American citizen applies for a spouse (the IR2 is an unmarried child under 2 1), and the application process takes about 1 year and 3 months.

American citizens aged IR5-2 1 apply for parents, and the application process takes about one and a half years.

K3-Cr 1 (American citizens apply for spouses), and the priority category of CR2 (their unmarried children under 2 1 year) is K4, and the application process takes about 9 months to 1 year.