What are the misunderstandings in applying for a green card in the United States?

Myth 1:

I can apply for a green card after five years/seven years of legal residence in the United States

There is no similar "residence in the United States" "You can apply for a green card in The immigration policies of a few countries allow "you can apply for a green card/permanent residency after living for X years", and include study abroad time.

If you are willing to immigrate, please study the immigration policies of various countries in detail or seek professional help.

U.S. green card holders can apply for U.S. citizenship after living in the United States for five years.

Myth 2: If I am studying in the United States, I can apply for a green card through skilled immigration.

The U.S. immigration policy does have corresponding provisions for people with special skills or outstanding talents, but for 99.9% of them, Applicable to international students.

Immigration requirements for outstanding talents must be at least a senior professor level, and the field of your research is useful to the United States. It is impossible for a young international student to immigrate to the United States through this route. Of course, if you are very good and accidentally win a Nobel Prize by doing an experiment in school, there is hope.

Special talent skilled immigrants also include those who have outstanding performance in the arts or sports, senior accountants, architects, and other talents whose work ability reaches the CEO level of transnational work.

Myth 3: If you buy a house in the United States, you can immigrate

This is impossible.

Investment immigration is indeed a form of immigration, but the project you invest in must be able to create a certain number of jobs in the United States, and real estate is not among them.

Myth 4: If nothing works, I can still rely on luck. Isn’t there a lottery every year?

In order to maintain social diversity, the U.S. government selects 50,000 people by lottery every year to issue U.S. green cards. , most of them do not live in the United States, and only a small number of people temporarily live in the United States with legal status can also be selected.

Note that the immigration lottery is to balance the diversity of American society. Therefore, some countries, such as China, India, Mexico and other countries, have already immigrated to the United States in large numbers, so residents of these countries are not included in the lottery. Inside. However, Hong Kong and Taiwan are both included.

Myth 5: Immigration applications can last forever

Different approaches to immigration will have different policies and implementation methods, but they all have one commonality, that is, if you have If your immigration application fails, subsequent applications will be more difficult to pass.

Some immigration methods, such as political asylum, are one-time. If your application fails, you may not have the opportunity to apply for U.S. immigration again in this life, and you may not even be able to enter the United States again.