How to Get a Green Card in USA

Here’s how to get a green card in the USA, also known as permanent residence.

A green card allows a person to work and live in the USA for the remainder of his or her life.

The green card recipient must not stay outside the USA for too long or he could lose his status. He must also adhere to US laws or he or she could be deported.

Many visitors get a green card by being sponsored by employers or relatives living here. Others ways are the green card lottery, investments or asylum. This sight contains information on who qualifies and how the green card process works.

How to Get a Green Card in USA through family

Lots of folks get a green card (obtain permanent residency) through their family. Here's how you may get it done:

• Through an immediate relative. Includes unmarried kids under age of 21
• A member of the family inside the preference category. This is children that are married and unmarried kids over 21.
• A green holder who is a family member
• A family member in a special category. Battered spouse, person born to a foreign diplomat and a widower of a US citizen.

How to Get a Green Card in USA through a job

Here are the ways to obtain a green card through employment.

• A job offer. If you are offered a job, you may be eligible for a green card. The employer files Form I-40,(immigrant petition for alien worker) and gets a labor certification.
• A special category of jobs. This involves Form I-360. These include an Afghan translator, broadcaster, Panama Canal employee or Nato-6 nonimmigrant

People living in the US may be eligible to adjust their status to permanent residence without leaving the country. If they have violated their immigration status, here are some ways to get the green card.

1) Through an immediate relative

2) Pay a fine and qualify under section 245(I)

3) Employment based immigrants can use 245(k)

4) Qualify through asylum under section 209