When Do I Receive My Green Card After the Interview? You will…
When Do I Receive My Green Card After the Interview?
You will not receive your green card immediately if you are interviewed outside the U.S. and the consular officer approves your application. Until the official green card arrives, the officer will only stamp your passport to indicate approval of permanent residency.
A sealed immigration packet will be given to you, allowing you to travel to the United States, which should not be opened.
A customs officer will collect and check your sealed immigration packet once you arrive at a U.S. port of entry.
The officer may decide to grant or deny you entry after checking your packet.
You will be able to enter the U.S. as a permanent resident if you are granted entry at the port of entry, and your official green card will be mailed to you a few weeks after your arrival.
Job opportunities through the Green Card?!
If you have received a Green Card then, unlike an immigrant in the United States, you have access to better career opportunities.
The reason for this is that, in order for immigrants to be able to work in the US, they need to be sponsored by the company they want to work for, whereas the holder of a Green Card is considered a legal permanent resident, so they are free to work in almost any company.
Other than that they can start a business and become an entrepreneur if they want to!
Do Asylum Applicants need to be interviewed?
Not all asylum applicants will need to be interviewed.
While the application for Asylum and supporting documents are part of the process to be sent to the USCIS, the interview will concentrate solely on eligibility for permanent residence adjustment and not on the underlying request for asylum.
How to Get a Family Green Card?
This type of Green Card must be sponsored by a green card holder or U.S. citizen.
To be able to sponsor the green card both the petitioner and the beneficiary must prove their familial relationship to proceed.
The petitioner has to:
file an I-130 Form,
submit the I-864 Form and submit biographic proof.
As for the beneficiary, they have to: file an I-485 Form if they are in the U.S. physically while on a valid visa, take the consular processing if they are not physically present in the U.S., also submit biographical info and complete the medical examinations.
After all these steps are approved, the beneficiary will have to attend the interview, where a final decision will be made after!
How are Green Cards through Lottery selected?
A computer algorithm randomly selects the winners of the Diversity Visa lottery, with a certain number of visas allocated to each region of the world and no country obtains more than 7% of the available Diversity Visas throughout the year.
Which continents have the highest Green Card quotas?
The two continents with the highest Green Card quotas are Europe and Africa. Both of these continents get about 20,000 Green Cards each.
What types of Green Cards are there?
There are many types of green cards that you can apply for.
The most famous ones can be obtained through:
Family Sponsors,
Job Visas, Diversity Visas (Lottery),
Asylum or Refugee Visas and much more!
Who is eligible for the EB-2 Visa?
There are two groups eligible for this type of Green Card.
1. Foreign nationals holding an advanced degree or its equivalent, in order to receive the Green Card must apply for a job in the U.S. which requires the advanced degree together with five years of experience and progressive work on the field. And
2. Foreign nationals with exceptional abilities, must demonstrate a ‘’degree of expertise significantly above that ordinarily encountered’’ in the business, sciences, arts, or medicine. For both categories, a PERM is required, but in some cases, if petitioners work in the U.S. would greatly benefit the U.S., they may request to withdraw this requirement and instead sign the National Interest Waiver.
