How to get a How to get a Green Card Green Card

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Having a green card, or permanent residence status, gives you the ability to legally live and work in the United States, and it's a step toward becoming a U.S. citizen. You can apply for a green card through your family, your employer, and for other special reasons. The process can take a long time, but the reward is great.

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1. Knowing Your Eligibility Category

2. Filing Your Petition and Checking Visa

Availability4.Finishing the Process

and Getting Your Green Card

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1. Knowing Your Eligibility Category

• Determine whether you can get a green card through family

• Determine whether you are eligible to get a green card through a job

• Determine if you have fall into the refugee green card category

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Determine whether you can get a green card through family

This is one of the most common ways to get a green card, an in many ways the simplest. If you're directly related to a US citizen, US immigration law allows your relative to petition for you to be able to live in the US.•The procedure is similar, but slower, if you are trying to get a green card through an immediate relative who is a permanent resident, but not yet a US citizen.

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Determine whether you are eligible to get a green card

through a job This general category is divided among many subcategories, but essentially entails all instances of green cards being issued for purposes related to a job offer, investment or having a specialized job.• You've received a permanent job offer for employment in the US. If this is the case, your employer will need to get a labor certification and fill out Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker.

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Determine if you have fall into the

refugee green card category

If you entered the US as a refugee or an asylee, or as an immediate family member of an asylee, you can apply for a green card 1 year after entering the country.• If you're in the country as a refugee, it is mandatory to apply for permanent status after being in the country for a year.•If you're in the country as an asylee, it is not mandatory to apply for green card status.

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2. Filing Your Petition and Checking Visa

Availability

• File the correct petition.

• Check visa availability in your category

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Filing the correct petition

Once you figure out what immigrant category you belong to, you'll need to have your family or employer file an immigrant petition for you. In rare cases, you'll file one yourself.• If you're obtaining a green card through your family, your relative must file Form I-130, the Petition for Alien Relative.•If you're obtaining a green card through your employer, your employer must file Form I-140, Petition for an Alien Worker.

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Check visa availability in your category

Once your relative, employer or you yourself file your initial petition, you need to check to see whether a visa is available before filing the remaining application forms. The number of visas available differs according to your immigrant category and the country from which you are emigrating. •There are an unlimited number of visas available for people applying for a green card through immediate relatives

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3. Finishing the Process and Getting Your Green

Card

• Get your biometrics taken

• Go to your interview

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Get your biometrics taken

You'll receive a notice calling you to go to an Application Support Center for an appointment during which you'll be fingerprinted, have your picture taken, and have your signature taken. The center will use this information to do a background check. Eventually your biometrics will be used to process your green card.

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Go to your interview

In some cases you might be called in for an interview with the USCIS office to answer questions about your application. If you receive a notice, make sure you attend the appointment. The notice should include the date, time and location of the interview.• In some cases your family member who filed your green card petition might be asked to come to the interview as well.•Bring your travel documents, passports, and all other relevant documents to the interview.

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