Conditions and materials of skilled immigrants in the United States

There are many ways to immigrate to America. Compared with other ways, skilled immigrants in the United States are still more popular. The so-called skilled immigrants are actually people who have the ability to surpass ordinary people in science, art and education, and successfully immigrate to the United States with their skills. Let's look at the conditions and materials of skilled immigrants in the United States!

First, the application conditions of American skilled immigrants

1. Work experience and practice

With at least one year of full-time work or continuous part-time work (like one year of full-time work), the applicant must have worked in the last 10 year (more than one year).

2. Work experience and classification

The applicant's work experience must be in the National Occupational Classification (NOC) skill type 0 (management work), A (professional work) or B (technical work and technical trade), as shown below:

1) has special abilities.

In the fields of science, art, education, business and sports, people with abilities beyond ordinary people. Those who have won international awards or met certain conditions at home, such as athletes and artists;

2) Outstanding professors or researchers

Professors or researchers who need to make outstanding achievements in a certain research field and have at least three years of teaching or research experience. I accepted a research position with tenure. Generally, the materials to be submitted include transcripts, diplomas, degree certificates and other academic certificates; Confirmation letters from former employers and colleagues, the applicant's salary tax bill and other work experience certificates;

3) The executive director or manager of a multinational company.

Such applicants do not need a work permit, but they need to submit the following relevant materials to the Immigration Bureau: employment certificate, work experience, job transfer order and salary record (materials need to be stamped with the seal of the parent company and signed by the leader) to prove the qualifications of the applicants. Professionals without high education, their professional level is higher than their field of work, with a bachelor's degree and less than 5 years of professional work experience.

3. Other requirements

1) conduct review: the applicant needs to pass this review, and cannot pose a threat to public safety in the United States, mainly by providing notarized innocence certificates;

2) Physical examination: mainly to check the applicant's health status and avoid diseases that pose a threat to American public health, such as AIDS and high-risk infectious diseases;

3) Funds: Applicants need to be financially self-sufficient to maintain the family's living expenses in the United States for six months to one year.

4) Working hours: American skilled immigrant applicants must have worked in the last 10 year (more than one year).

Second, the materials needed to apply for skilled immigrants in the United States

1. Education certificate

Including transcripts, diplomas and degree certificates.

2. Work experience proves that

Letter of confirmation from former employer and colleagues, the applicant's payroll tax bill and work report. If you are a professor in an American university, the university must prove that the position is tenure or will become tenure. If the employer is a private organization, it should be proved that the employer has made outstanding research results and hired more than three full-time researchers. In addition, the applicant must meet at least two of the following conditions and provide relevant certificates.

1) is rewarded for academic performance.

2) As a member of relevant academic associations, you must have outstanding achievements.

3) His work or achievements are specially recorded or introduced by others in professional journals.

4) As a member of the industry judges.

(5) Having made pioneering achievements in scientific research or academic research.

6) Its academic works or professional academic journals that publish its academic articles are distributed all over the world.

Third, the fastest way for American skilled immigrants to get green cards.

Apply for 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 sent or dispatched 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.

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.