Steps and time required to apply for a green card in the United States

Normal professional immigrants go through three steps: 1) PERM labor application; 2) I- 140 immigration application; 3) I-485 adjusts the application status (if the person is in the United States) or applies for an immigrant visa through consular procedures (if the person is no longer in the United States), and I-485 applies for approval and obtains a formal green card. Because applying for a work permit is long and cumbersome, and the immigration schedule is uncertain, the time for applying for a green card may be as long as 4-6 years.

Because outstanding talents are talents from all over the world actively attracted and recruited by the US government, the immigration law stipulates that the US government exempts foreigners who meet the standards of "outstanding talents" from applying for PERM work permits and directly applies for EB 1 (I- 140 application). And EB- 1 does not need to wait for the immigration schedule at present. You can submit I-485 status adjustment immediately or arrange an immigrant visa interview, or you can submit I-485 status adjustment at the same time as submitting EB 1 immigration application. Therefore, the application time of EB 1 immigrant green card is much shorter than that of other professional immigrants. To understand EB- 1 schedule, let's start with the number of professional immigrants. INA allocates 6.5438+0.4 million immigrant visas to professional immigrants every year. The Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization further stipulates that the annual immigration quota of each country is limited to 7%. If the quota of immigrants from other countries has not been used up, it can be allocated to the countries where the quota of immigrants has been used up equally. Specific allocation of five professional immigrant categories140,000 immigrant places. EB 1 The annual immigration quota is 40,000+plus the unused immigration quota of EB4 and EB5. At present, there are no places for EB5 investment immigrants every year, and EB4 religious immigrants can have about 3,000 places every year. Therefore, the annual quota of EB 1 immigrants is about 43,000 (the number of excellent immigrants in 20 15 years is 4 1688, and that in 20 14 years is 40,554. Although the number of EB 1 immigrants born in Chinese mainland and India is about 2,800 each, there are few applicants for EB 1 in other countries, so there is no schedule for EB 1 in China and India at present. Hard conditions for applying for a green card in the United States (applicant qualification) To apply for a green card through National Interest Exemption (NIW), the following conditions must be met: 1, master's or doctoral degree. 2. There are a certain number of articles in journals or conference papers.

3. The number of times the article was cited.

4, as the chairman of a professional meeting or branch.

It accords with the economic, social, environmental, cultural and health care interests of the United States.

Soft-conditional immigration lawyers overemphasize the importance of soft conditions because they can't change the applicant's hard conditions in a short time when preparing their applications.

Of course, a convincing recommendation letter and a strong application letter can really improve the chances of application being approved, but this solution is only applicable to applicants who are about to apply and have no time to prepare or improve their hard conditions. When preparing an application letter, a simple and vivid application letter is far more convincing than a long and complicated /zd/lx.