Necessary background knowledge in the process of immigrating to the United States

Many foreigners who are preparing or submitting applications for immigration to the United States are mostly concerned about one topic:? How far away from my green card is a question that no one can answer accurately. However, I have been asked many times, so I would like to introduce some related background knowledge to you here. I hope this will help you clear the fog, estimate the time to get the American green card, and plan your future reasonably. How far are you from the green card? This basically depends on the supply and demand of immigrant visas. If the supply of visas exceeds the demand, there is no need to queue up. If the demand for visas exceeds the supply, you will have to wait in line. For the sake of justice and fairness, professional immigrants are divided into five priority categories. Family migrants are divided into four priority categories. Generally speaking, immigrants from a particular country can only make full use of the quota allocated to that country (first come, first served).

The State Council publishes a visa announcement every month to show the visa schedule to the public. For countries with a large number of immigrants, their deadlines may be listed separately. These countries include China, Indian, Mexican and Philippine. For the convenience of discussion, this paper only discusses the scheduling of professional immigrants.

Factors affecting the schedule

With a fixed visa supply, the length of your stay is determined by three factors: 1) immigration preference, 2) the applicant's country of birth, and 3) the priority date of immigration application.

The first two factors determine which team you are on: long team, short team, or no team. The latter factor determines your position in the team.

The types of professional immigrants are divided into five priority categories:

EB 1 The first priority includes foreign talents, outstanding professors/researchers and multinational executives.

The second priority of EB2 includes National Interest Exemption (NIW) and highly educated professionals applying for work permits;

EB3 gives priority to general professionals, skilled workers and unskilled workers who apply for immigration through work permits;

The fourth priority of EB4 is religious people;

The fifth focus of EB5 is investment immigration.

It should be pointed out that if your application is approved by work permit, whether you belong to EB2 or EB3 depends on PERM's job requirements, not your own qualifications. There are many ways to apply for a green card. You can choose both. As long as it meets your own requirements, you can apply through your employer, or you can apply on your own according to your own grades, such as EB- 1(a) or NIW.

Even if your immigration category is the same as others, if you were born in different countries and regions, the time for you to get a green card will be very different. For example, students born in Chinese mainland and students born in Taiwan Province Province both applied for National Interest Exemption (NIW) and both were approved. Your Taiwan Province classmate may get a green card in a few months (I-485 can be submitted at the same time without scheduling), but you may have to wait for several years to get a green card (I-485 can't be submitted immediately because of scheduling).

The country of taxation is basically your country of birth. If you were born in China and later got a Canadian passport, when you immigrated to the United States, China was still waiting in line. Of course, it is not impossible to change visa countries. One way is to get married. If the spouse's country of birth has no schedule or the schedule is short, you can queue up in the spouse's country of birth. You see, American immigration policy is still very humane? Encourage couples to reunite.