The Green Card Process – Pavement to be an NRI

Every Indian desires to stay abroad, work there and to spend rest of his life proudly as an NRI. To implement this desire into reality is not a one go process; it takes its own time and rigorous formalities to get a Permanent Residential Card from US government also known as Green Card.

A Green card permits an alien to reside and take employment in USA. It is an Identification card, serves as a proof that card holder is a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) and has been legally granted immigration benefits.

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is an agency formerly responsible to issue Green cards.

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The POE in the United States

Once you have all your documents all made and you have arrived to the United States then, that at the Air port you would have to pass through the POE (port of entry) this is the last huddle for you before you enter the United States with a legal status no matter on what visa or for what ever reason you are traveling.

Here at the port of entry the immigration or the customs officer would be asking you questions about your travel and the reasons of your travel, the duration of the stay which is intended for and they would be expecting reasonable answers as per the other paper works would say there could be conversations that he or she might choose to indulge in to based upon what the officer deems fit.

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Getting a new Apartment after Immigration to US

Getting a new apartment immediately after immigration to the United States is really a big hassle. There is a whole lot of questions those are required to be answered related to your requirement and besides there are a million things those are required to be taken in to consideration before choosing on to a house.

Chances are that immediately after immigrating to the United States you would be given a temporary home by your employer, for some time but the sooner you shift in to your own the better for you.

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Family Based Immigration to the United States

A family based immigration in to the United States is some thing that could be done easily. This is done if you could fulfill the under mentioned terms and conditions. In this kind of immigration the guardian angle happens to be the relative who is either already staying in the United States, or is a lawful permanent resident already in the US.

The above mentioned could be done in 2 ways (this is the IR category).

  1. Some one who is an immediate relative of an US citizen, which is a spouse, widow or an unmarried child who essentially needs to be under the age of 21.

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Why Look For Only a Legal Migration to US


There are some advantages and benefits which are shared here under and for the same one should look out only to avail for opportunities to be a legal immigrant to the United States.

  1. People do know that the illegal immigrants are some what help less and thus they tend to take advantage of the situation. There are many ways in which an illegal immigrant may be exploited. For example over work, underpay, abusing so on and so forth.

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Tax Season Starts for Immigrants

There are a million people who dreams day in and day out of immigrating to the United States. But trust me; this is just the easy part. Once you have legally immigrated to the United States then all the laws Federal laws would be applicable on you too like on any other American. You would be liable to pay all the applicable taxes which you are liable for, and some questions like the SSN, the ITIN, determining the alien tax status, and the taxation of the resident and the nonresident aliens would not take very long to steal away your sweet night sleep.

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H1B Work Visas for Indians

It can be said that the most popular visa among Indians is H1B which is a working visa for foreigners. Most of the Indians H1B visa holders are software engineers. Although it is a quite hard to get the H1B visa, once you obtain it, it is like the starting point for you to get the Green Card of US.

Compared to Indians programmers and software engineers who come with other visas such as L1 and B1, their visas is not so flexible for changing jobs, which is the best fact of H1 visa.

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