What are the types of American immigrants?

Types of American immigrants: relative immigrants, professional immigrants and special immigrants.

Relatives migration:

There are two kinds of relatives immigrants: one is relatives immigrants who are not limited by the number of immigrants around the world, that is, immediate family members: spouses of American citizens; Minor children of American citizens (2 1 under); Parents of American citizens. This is classified as the closest relative and is available at any time.

The other is the relative migration limited by the number of immigrants in the world, which is divided into four grades according to the priority order: the first priority: adult children of American citizens (2 1 year old or older) and their children. Second priority: 1. Spouses and minor children of permanent residents. Adult unmarried children of permanent residents and their children. Third priority: married children of American citizens (regardless of age) and their children. Fourth priority: 2 1 or brothers and sisters of American citizens.

Professional immigrants:

Also known as work immigration, it is a way to immigrate to the United States by working in the United States on the basis of having certain professional advantages. Professional immigration is undoubtedly an important way for those who do not meet the conditions of relative immigration but have certain professional knowledge and want to immigrate to the United States.

According to the current immigration law, the total number of people who immigrate to the United States by occupation every year is 6.5438+0.4 million, which is divided into five priority categories according to the conditions of different occupations and individuals.

First priority: priority labor force (category III)

1. Foreigners who have made outstanding achievements in science, art, education, business and sports and enjoy national or international reputation. 2. Outstanding professors or researchers with more than three years of teaching or research experience in special academic fields and internationally recognized.

3. The senior management of an international trading company must have more than one year's working experience in the company in the first three years of applying for this status, and come to the United States to continue working in the same company or affiliated enterprises.

Second priority: professionals with advanced degrees and special skills (category II)

1. Have an advanced degree (master or above) or "equivalent education" (at least five years working experience in this field).

2. Have special abilities in science, art and business, and have a substantial impact on American economy, culture, education or welfare.

Third priority: skilled workers, professionals and other workers (three categories)

1. refers to people who have a bachelor's degree and have been engaged in this profession (such as accountants, architects and engineers).

2. Skilled workers refer to those who have more than two years of vocational training or experience.

3. Other workers, including unskilled workers.

Fourth priority: special immigrants (nine categories)

1. Those who want to regain American citizenship.

2. Religious workers.

American professional immigrants -EB (* * * has five categories):

A, EB 1 (can be divided into three types)

1 and EB 1A refer to outstanding talents. If you win an international prize, take sports as an example. If you win an Olympic prize or an Olympic competition, you get a green card. This is EB1a. If they are scientific talents who have won the Nobel Prize, have made outstanding contributions and work in business, they can apply for immigration through EB1A.

2, EB 1B, this is teaching. If you want to go to an American university to do research and major in teaching, American universities are willing to give you a long-term teaching (opportunity), or you are a postdoctoral researcher, get a doctorate, and engage in advanced research in American schools and academia. This is the so-called EB 1B class.

3. A multinational company EB 1C mobilizes the internal staff of an international company. In the past three years, he worked as a senior supervisor or manager in a China company. With the corresponding business needs, I transferred from a China company to an American company, which belongs to EB 1C category.

Second, EB2

The advantage of EB2 is that there are many places. If you were born in China, you can apply with EB 1 EB2 requires a master's degree or above. The United States adopts the principle of birth right. If you were born in Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province Province, there will be a place soon. Nowadays, many people have obtained master's degrees, whether abroad or in the United States. As long as you have a master's degree or above, there are companies to apply for you. Then you can naturally get a green card through EB2. If you were born in China, I'm sorry, there may be no quota. It will take about four or five years.

Third, EB3

Then EB3, bachelor degree or above, and then more than two years of work experience. People born in China have to wait longer, or people born in Taiwan Province province. At present, EB3 has to wait five years, and China may have to wait longer.

Four. EB4

Then EB4, religious immigrants, is less involved.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) EB5