07/01/2015
How can a BUSINESSPERSON live and work
in the United States?
The following information is provided by Jaensch Immigration Law Firm.
Employment based green cards are often the best possibility for Businesspersons.
There are five types:
1. EB-1: for aliens with extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, or multinational business managers and executives.
2. EB-2: for aliens with exceptional ability or aliens with advanced degrees (employer/sponsor required)
3. EB-3: for professional workers (with university degree), skilled workers and unskilled workers (employer/sponsor required)
4. EB-4: for religious workers
5. EB-5: for aliens who invest $1 million and create 10 new full time jobs (in limited situations, an investment of $500,000 is acceptable).
Green card lottery (diversity green card)
The green card lottery (diversity green card) is government program designed to increase
immigration from countries that do not produce a large number of immigrants to the U.S.
Only people born in certain countries can qualify (for example, people born in Canada,
Mexico, England, India, China, and the Philippines can not participate).
Each year the government selects 100,000 winners for 50,000-55,000 green cards. The government assumes that some winners will not qualify. The time to enter the green card
lottery changes every year, but it is usually between October and December. For more information, see the government’s lottery website: http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/
Because of current legislative developments in the United States, the Green Card Lottery may not exist for much longer.