Different types of Green Card

To apply for a Green Card, you must be eligible under one of the categories of different types of Green Card allowed. Once you find the category that may fit your situation, get information on eligibility requirements, how to apply, and whether your family members can also apply with you. Wizard Visa can help you with this procedure.

There are many types of Green Card. The most common types are:

• Family-Based Green Card;
• Employment-Based Green Card;
• Humanitarian Green Cards;
• Diversity Lottery Green Card;
• Longtime-Resident Green Card;

Family-Based Green Card

Close relatives (spouses, children, parents, and siblings) of U.S. citizens and current Green Card holders may apply for family-based green cards. In the same way spouses and children of those spouses, adult children, and siblings, may apply too.

Also included in this category are widows and widowers who were married to a U.S. citizen at the time the citizen died, they must prove that their marriage was authentic in order to receive a Green Card.

Employment-Based Green Card

Within the employment-based green card category, multiple subcategories of workers can apply too. According to USCIS, some employment-based subcategories are eligible:

• Priority workers;
• Positions in the arts, sciences, education, business, and athletics that require extraordinary ability;
• Outstanding professors and researchers;
• Multinational managers and executives;
• Professionals with advanced degrees and exceptional abilities;        
• Positions requiring at least a master’s degree;
• Positions requiring at least a baccalaureate (bachelor’s) degree, plus at least five years of relevant experience;
• Positions in the sciences, arts, or business requiring exceptional ability;
• Positions of national interest;
• Physicians;
• Physicians who agree to work full-time in underserved areas for a specific period and meet other eligibility criteria;
• Skilled, unskilled, and professional workers;      
• Skilled positions that require a minimum of two years’ training or experience that is not temporary or seasonal;
• Unskilled positions that require less than two years’ training or experience that is not temporary or seasonal;
• Professional positions that require at least a baccalaureate (bachelor’s) degree from a U.S. university or college or the equivalent of this degree from a non-U.S. school;
• Special workers;
• Media professionals;
• Religious workers and ministers;
• Afghanistan and Iraq nationals who have served the U.S. government under certain capacities;
• Certain other employees, retirees, and their family members
• Investors;

According to USCIS, the extraordinary ability is demonstrated “through sustained national or international acclaim. Your achievements must be recognized in your field through extensive documentation,” according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

According to USCIS, exceptional ability refers to “a degree of expertise significantly above that ordinarily encountered” in your field.

Humanitarian Green Cards

These types of Green Card are:

• For Refugees and Asylees; People who fear, or have experienced, persecution in their home country — because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group — can seek protection in the United States by applying for a visa from abroad;
• For human-trafficking victims: Victims of human trafficking who are living in the United States, whether lawfully or unlawfully;
• For crime victims: Victims of physical or mental abuse;
• For abuse victims: Victims of domestic violence apply to both women and men, and both parents and children, who are victims of abuse;

USCIS will not notify the abusive relative of the application in order to keep the victim safe.

Diversity Lottery Green Card

Green Card Lottery, officially called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program”, the U.S. government every year randomly selects up to 50,000 people from a pool of entries it receives from six geographic regions, such as Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

According to USCIS, only people from countries that have had little immigration to the United States in the past are eligible. The share of green cards distributed to any one country is capped at 7%.

Longtime-Resident Green Card

Individuals who have physically lived in the United States — lawfully or unlawfully since January 1, 1972, may apply for a green card through a special process called “registry.”

To qualify for a green card through registry, the individual must meet all the required USCIS criteria.

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