How many Green Cards are distributed every year? About 1 million individuals…
How many Green Cards are distributed every year?
About 1 million individuals get green cards per year to reside in the United States.
The annual quota is around 220,000 for family-based immigrants.
For employment-based immigrants, 140,000 and for the visa lottery, 50,000.
Over 4 million people are currently waiting in line for green cards due to these annual quotas and the 7 percent per country cap.
However, there is no quota for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens which include parents, spouses and children.
Benefits of a Green Card for family members!
It gives you the opportunity to sponsor your immediate family members and give them the right to stay with you in the United States if you hold a US Green Card.
Remember, “Immediate family members” are identified as unmarried children under 21 years of age, parents, and spouses by US Immigration.
So if you want to sponsor an extended family member then, that is also possible!
Required documents for the Asylum Green Card?
To be able to seek Asylum in the US you need the following documentation:
copy of your passport page with the nonimmigrant visa or parole stamp,
Form I-485 or Form I-912,
proof of your grant of asylum (Form I-94),
two passport photos of yourself,
proof of 1-year physical presence in the United States,
copy of your birth certificate,
the medical examination Form (Form I-693) and certified police records.
What is the difference between a citizen and resident?
A citizen nowadays, is considered to be someone who belongs to a country legally, whereas, a resident is considered to be someone who is legally living or working in a city, state or maybe even university or hospital for a specific amount of time.
How to apply for the Green Card?
First, find out if you are eligible for the Green Card.
Second, file the I-485 Form with USCIS and provide all the documentation required.
Third, the USCIS will review your application and if everything is correct they will schedule an interview with you.
Once your Green Card gets issued, it is valid for 10 years!
The required Forms for the Marriage Green Card!
The Forms every Marriage-based Green Card application needs in order to get issued are:
USCIS Form I-130 (Petition for Alien Relative),
USCIS Form G-325A (Biographic Information),
USCIS Form I-485 (Application to Register Permanent Residence),
USCIS Form I-693 (Medical Examination Results) and
USCIS Form I-864 (Affidavit of Support).
Who is eligible for the EB-3 Visa?
These Green Cards are available to 3 groups of workers who are very different from one another.
1. Skilled workers, are employees that need to have at least two years of training or work experience, which is not temporary or seasonal. In order to be eligible, they must do the work of qualified workers who are not available in the United States.
2. Professionals, are foreign nationals whose job required a U.S. bachelor degree or a foreign equivalent diploma. They also must work a job that qualified workers in the U.S. are unavailable to do. And
3. Other workers, which is a subcategory for foreign nationals that perform unskilled labor, which requires less than 2 years of training/experience. In all three cases a PERM is required and a waiver of interest in not available!
Is it possible to remain a permanent resident in the US?
Unless you apply for and complete the naturalization process, lose your status or abandon it, then once you become a Green Card holder you hold the permanent resident status forever.
