Do you know how immigrants get American green cards?

Generally speaking, there are three ways to apply for an immigrant visa and get an American green card: relative immigration, professional immigration and investment immigration.

1. Family migration

Applicants for relative immigration can be American citizens or permanent residents of the United States. American citizens can apply for immigration for spouses, children, parents and siblings; Permanent residents can apply for immigration for spouses and unmarried children.

Ir relative migration

This kind of relative immigration is used for unmarried children under 2 1 year old of spouses of American citizens and American citizens over 2 1 year old who apply for immigration for their parents. The biggest advantage of this kind of immigration is that there is no quota limit and the speed of handling cases is faster.

B. Priority categories of relatives' migration

The first priority category (f 1), adult unmarried children of American citizens;

The second priority category (f2) includes: (f2-a) American permanent resident spouses and unmarried children under 2 1; (f2-b) Adult unmarried children of permanent residents in the United States;

The third priority category (f3), married children of American citizens;

The fourth priority category (f4) is brothers and sisters of American citizens.

There is a quota limit for the priority category of relative immigrants, and it is necessary to wait for the quota to be scheduled.

2. Professional immigrants

Professional immigrants are divided into five categories:

A.(eb- 1) Excellent employees

This kind of professional immigrants don't need American work certificates. However, applicants must provide evidence to prove that they will continue to work within their professional scope after immigrating to the United States.

Such professional immigrants are suitable for three groups of people:

A. Outstanding talents in special fields such as science, art, education, business or sports;

B. distinguished professors or researchers;

C. management talents of multinational enterprises.

B.(eb-2) Professionals with higher education or special abilities.

This kind of professional immigrants need a work certificate from the United States, but applicants do not need to provide evidence that they will continue to work within the professional scope after immigrating to the United States. At the same time, if the applicant provides evidence that he/she will continue to work within his/her expertise after immigrating to the United States, he/she can also apply for exemption from the requirement of obtaining a work certificate in the United States.

A. Professionals with higher education;

B. professionals with special abilities.

C.(eb-3) Professionals, skilled workers or unskilled workers

Such professional immigrants need American work certificates. Foreigners applying for such visas must be professionals with a bachelor's degree or skilled workers in certain fields, and the latter also requires at least two years of work experience or training.

At the same time, eb-3 also includes a special group of people who can apply for immigration. This group refers to unskilled workers, who must also have at least two years of work experience or training. It is generally difficult for unskilled workers to apply for immigration.

3. American investment immigrants

American investment immigration refers to the behavior of investors who have certain assets and meet other restrictive conditions to invest their funds in investment funds or suitable commercial projects approved by the US government. As the first powerful country with a very developed economy in the world, the United States has always been the first choice for China to invest and immigrate.

1. Applicants must be at least 2 1 year old, and their spouses and unmarried children under 2 1 year old can apply at the same time;

2. The applicant's personal assets exceed $500,000;

3. Prove that the above-mentioned personal assets of the applicant were obtained through legal channels;

4. Qualified projects with an investment of not less than US$ 500,000 will directly or indirectly create not less than 65,438+00 jobs every year in the next two years.

These are the three main ways to immigrate to the United States to get a green card. Applicants can choose the appropriate immigration method according to their actual situation. /zd/xx