Green Card & Visa News

In economic terms India is the main supplier of human capital or the skilled labour in the whole world. Germany supplies cars, UAE supplies oil, China supplies electronics and India supplies minds in fact great minds. Skilled labour is must for growth of any nation and in nation like India there is no shortage for it. Most of great minds want to settle in US because of better opportunities and more income. So for the permanent settlement there is a need of permanent immigration or in a sense a ticket to live in US permanently. This ticket is called the green card. After the terrorist attacks on world trade centre this process has become a bit more sophisticated, complex and length process.

To become a permanent resident of United States of America you require luck, complete documents and a clean background.

The different ways a person may get a green card varies and some of these ways are listed below:

1. Sponsorship by the employer: If you get an employment in US and the company sponsors you and consider you to have a clean background then one can get a green card.
2. Sponsorship by a family member: If some permanent resident of US sponsors some of his close one then also it is possible to get a green card.
3. Investment as an Entrepreneur: If someone invests money to open a new firm in US that would help to provide employment opportunity to residents there than green card may be granted.
4. Diversity visa: Each fiscal year as many as 55000 green cards are granted in this scheme. This is luck based grant of green card. Random applicants are selected who meet the strict eligibility criteria and a random lottery system is used to grant green card. In some cases it takes years to be the lucky one.
5. Immigration through asylum or refugee status: Sometimes it so happens that do adverse condition prevailing in native country a person do not wish to return to his country to prevent himself from race, religion and cast riots then green card may be granted giving a refugee or asylum status.

So for Indians in US the first four ways to get a Visa are the most probable ones and once granted a Visa he is no more an Indian by citizenship.