Green Card Application

Employment-Based Visa Options for U.S. Immigration

There are several elements of the United States visa system. Employment-based visas comprise only about 17% of the visas issued for the United States. There are two broad categories: permanent visas and temporary visas. Permanent employment-based visas have a high skilled workers yearly cap of 140,000. Low skilled workers can include some employment-based visa holders

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What if my spouse and I were born in an eligible country, but only I meet the education/work experience criteria?

Looking for information about green card application after marriage? USAFIS has learned that in this scenario, only you meet both requirements for the Diversity Visa Lottery, so you would submit one application with yourself as the main applicant and your spouse and all unmarried children under the age of 21 (if relevant) as the “derivative” family members and if

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What is the Diversity Visa (“Green Card”) Lottery Program?

The Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Program (commonly referred to as the Green Card Lottery) is a U.S. immigration program which seeks to further diversify the population of the United States by randomly selecting approximately 100,000 winners annually from six geographic regions of the world for the opportunity to apply for one of the 50,000 Diversity

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