Differences Between Green Card and US Visa
The United States is one of the most popular tourism and permanent immigration destinations. The US issues over 6 million short-term visas every year compared to Green Cards— over 1 million are issued. Whether you are planning to visit the US short-term or long-term, it’s important to understand the difference between a Green Card and a US visa to…
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SB1 Visa
When you get a Green Card in the US, you are under the status of a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) or a Conditional Resident (CR) depending on the type of visa that you have. In order to maintain this status, you will have to live in the US for some time before you can apply…
Diversity Visa Program
Besides the non-immigrant visas and the immigrant visas, there is an additional way through which you can visit the US and move there permanently. This is through the Diversity Visa Lottery. The Diversity Visa allows people from countries with low rates of immigration to the US to be randomly selected and get permanent resident status….
US Immigrant Investor Visa
The EB5 Visa is the US’s version of a Golden Visa. It allows the holder to live, work, pursue education or retire in the US without having to find an employer. As with other Golden Visa types, if you wish to get a US EB-5 visa, you must make a very substantial investment in the US….
EB1 Visa
Besides family and immediate relative immigration visas, the US also gives visas to people who qualify to work in the country. These Employment Sponsored Visas allow foreign workers who have found an employer willing to hire them to come to the US permanently and work without an Employment Authorization Document. What is the EB1 Visa? The EB1…
IR1 Visa and CR1 Visa
It is not uncommon for US citizens to want to marry a person from another country. These couples have the choice of staying in a foreign country or starting the process of immigrating and moving permanently to the US. In this case, the spouse who is from a foreign country will need to obtain a…
K3 Visa
Within the immediate relative or family sponsored visas, some of the most popular ones are the US visas for spouses. The K3 visa allows the spouse from a foreign country to move to the US and reside there while they wait for the immigrant visa petition to be approved. This applies for married couples when one…
IR4 Visa
The US immigrant visas have various categories within them. One of them is the Immediate Relative Visa category. This group of visas favors the immediate relatives or family of US citizens who live outside of the US. They are denoted by the letters IR, and are the following: As can be seen, immediate relatives are only spouses, biological…
IR3 Visa
The US immigrant visas have various categories within them. One of them is the Immediate Relative Visas. This group of visas favors the immediate relatives or family of US citizens who live outside of the US. They are denoted by the letters IR, and are the following: As can be seen, immediate relatives are only spouses, biological…