Need a Green Card?
What are the steps to becoming a Green Card holder (permanent resident)?
A Green Card holder (permanent resident) is someone who has been granted authorization to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis. As proof of that status, a person is granted a permanent resident card, commonly called a "Green Card." You can become a permanent resident several different ways.
Employment-based Immigration: |
Family-based Immigration: |
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Asylum-based Immigration: |
Investment-based Immigration: |
If you have been admitted to the U.S. as a refugee/asylee or as a spouse of an asylee, you may file for permanent residency (Green Card) one (1) year after the entry to the U.S.
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Entrepreneurs, their spouses and their unmarried children under 21 are eligible to apply while making an investment in a commercial enterprise in the U.S., and planning to create or preserve at least ten (10) permanent full-time jobs for the U.S. workers, subject to further eligibility requirements.
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Lottery-based Immigration: |
VAWA-based Immigration / other Special Categories: |
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program makes up to 50,000 available annually, drawn from random selection of individual from the qualifying countries.
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As a battered spouse, parent or a child, you may file an immigrant visa petition Form I-360 complying with the certain eligibility requirem
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