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| US VISA / GREEN CARD SERVICES |
1. About the Immigration Visa / Green Card
Immigrants to the United States are divided into two categories: (I) those who may obtain permanent residence status without numerical limitation, and (II) those to an annual limitation. The latter category is further divided into (A) family-sponsored, (B) employment-based, and (C) diversity immigrants.
A. Immediate Relatives: The spouse, widow(er) and minor unmarried children of a United States citizen, and the parents of a United States citizen who is 21 or older.
B. Returning Residents: Previous U.S. lawful permanent residents who are returning to the U.S. after a stay of more than one year abroad.
to certain transitional laws, immigration into the United States beginning in 1995 will be limited to 675,000 persons per year. That figure is divided into three distinct sub-categories.
A. Family-Based
Preference relatives may receive all of the visas not used by Immediate Relatives, but no less than 226,000 visas per year. Family-based preference categories (with minimum limits in parentheses) include:
1. Unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and children if any (23,400).
2. Spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters of lawful permanent resident aliens (114,200).
3. Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and their spouses and children (23,400).
4. Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens, and their spouses and children, provided the U.S. citizens are over 20 (65,000).
B. Employment-Based
A total of 140,000 immigrant visas yearly are available for this category which is divided into five preference groups (percent of yearly limit):
1. Priority Workers: Persons of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; outstanding professors and researchers; and certain multinational executives and managers (28.6%).
2. Members of the Professions: Professionals holding advanced degrees, and persons of exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, and business (28.6%).
3. Professionals, Skilled and Unskilled Workers: Professionals holding baccalaureate degrees, skilled workers with at least two years experience, and other workers whose skills are in short supply in the United States (28.6%).
4. Special Immigrants: Certain religious workers, ministers of religion, certain international organization employees and their immediate family members, and qualified, recommended current and former U.S. Government employees. (7.1%).
5. Investors: Persons who create employment for at least ten unrelated persons by investing capital in a new commercial enterprise in the United States. The minimum capital required is between $500,000 and $1,000,000, depending on the employment rate in the geographic area (7.1%).
C. Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery
The Diversity Lottery makes available 55,000 immigrant visa numbers annually to persons selected at random from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. There is a separate registration for each year's visas. Information on registration for the lottery is available at the link above.
APPLYING FOR THE VISAS
We can petition for certain applicants such as priority workers, investors, certain special immigrants, and diversity immigrants on their behalf. For all others their relative or potential employer will be contacted to petition for them.
Applicants for family-sponsored immigrant visas will be requested the U.S. citizen relative to file a petition form with us. In some cases, if the U.S. citizen is residing abroad, he or she may file the petition with our nearest agent.
Applicants for employment-based immigrant visas may require an approved petition form. For priority workers we may petition on their behalf with the INS, while with others we will have their prospective employers file the petitions. Prior to filing a petition with the INS, on behalf of members of the profession, professionals, skilled and unskilled workers, we must obtain certifications from the Department of Labour that there are no qualified workers available for the proposed employment in the U.S.
For special immigrant returning residents and U.S. Government employees we will apply to the Secretary of State through a U.S. consular office abroad. For all other special immigrants we will file the relevant petition with INS.
For an investor we will file the necessary form petition with the INS.
For diversity immigrants we will file an application with the U.S. Department of State. Information on registration is announced each year by the State Department and is available from us as explained at the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery.
We will advise the beneficiary of the petition (the applicant for a visa) when it is received from the approving office. The visa applicant will receive further instructions at that time.
VISA INELIGIBILITY / WAIVER
The immigration laws of the United States, in order to protect the health, welfare, and security of the U.S., prohibit visa issuance to certain applicants. This includes persons who have a communicable disease such as tuberculosis, or have a dangerous physical or mental disorder, or are drug addicts; have committed serious criminal acts, including crimes involving moral turpitude, drug trafficking, and prostitution or procuring; are terrorists, subversives, members of a totalitarian party or former Nazi war criminals; are likely to become public charges in the U. S.; have used fraud or other illegal means to enter the U.S.; or are ineligible for citizenship. Some former exchange visitors must live abroad 2 years. Physicians who intend to practice medicine must pass a qualifying exam before receiving immigrant visas.
If any of the above restrictions might apply, then a statement regarding the facts should be submitted to us, and we will advise the applicant if the law provides for some form of waiver.
OTHER DOCUMENTATION
Documents for Application
All applicants must submit certain personal documents such as passports, birth certificates, police certificates, and other civil documents, as well as evidence that they will not become public charges in the U.S. We will inform visa applicants of the documents needed as their applications are processed.
Medical Examinations
Before the issuance of an immigrant visa, every applicant, regardless of age, must undergo a medical examination. The examination will be conducted by a doctor designated by us. Examination costs must be borne by the applicant.
Visa Fees
The cost of each formal immigrant visa application is $170 and issuance is $30. Fees must be paid per person regardless of age, and are not refundable. The INS charges additional fees for filing petitions. Local currency equivalents are acceptable. These fees are included in our total charges unless specifically requested.
Numerical Limitations
Whenever there are more qualified applicants for a category than there are available numbers, the category will be considered oversubscribed, and immigrant visas will be issued in the chronological order in which the petitions were filed until the numerical limit for the category is reached. The filing date of a petition becomes the priority date. Immigrant visas cannot be issued until an applicant's priority date is reached. In certain oversubscribed categories, there may be a waiting period of several years before a priority date is reached.
Miscellaneous
Since no advance assurances can be given that a visa will be issued, applicants are advised not to make any final travel arrangements, not to dispose of their property, and not to give up their jobs until visas have been issued to them. An immigrant visa is valid for a minimum period of four months from date of issuance.
With few exceptions, a person born in the U.S. has a claim to U.S. citizenship. Persons born in countries other than the U.S. may have a claim, under U.S. law, to U.S. nationality if: Either parent was born or naturalised in the United States, or Either parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of the applicant's birth.
Any applicant believing that he or she may have a claim to United States citizenship should not apply for a visa until his or her citizenship has been determined by the consular office.
Further information
Further information and update about the specific categories of immigrant visas listed above you can find in the US Immigration Update. Complete details are available in the full immigration information pack.
2. How we can help you obtain Immigration Visa / Green Card
We are pleased to be able to assist you in applying for Immigrant Visa and later for a Green Card, in fact we will process all the necessary documents for the issuing of your visa. The above information is part of the full information pack available to our customers. This should give you an idea of the categories that you will fall under when you register with us.
Basically we can help foreign nationals obtain residence (immigrant visa) in the USA within 6-7 months and a Green Card within 2 years (from time of receipt of completed forms). You can register for the Immigrant Visa / Green Card service by filling in the Application Form, after which we will send you a full interactive immigration information pack and will start preparing and processing your application.
The process of our service can be divided in the following parts:
- Filling out the Application Form by you and sending it to us by pressing on the SEND FORM button.
- On the basis of the information, provided by you in the Form we make a general assessment of you chances of immigration to USA and we inform you of the results by return e-mail.
- If we confirm that we can assist you further, we ask you to register with us by paying the deposit as explained in the next section.
- We send you the full information package and forms to fill, sign and send back to us with your photos.
- When we receive the completed forms from you we start processing your Application.
- When your residence visa is ready for collection, you will be able to confirm it's issuance (to be confirmed) and we will ask you to make the second payment.
- You receive your Residence Visa and you are able to live and work in USA.
- When your Green Card is ready for collection we ask you to make the third payment, after which you receive your Green Card.
The total cost for US Green Card service is US$ 2500. To register with us you will need to pay a deposit of US$ 500 for our administration costs, then US$ 1000 when your Resident (Immigrant) Visa is ready for collection and the rest US$ 1000 on collection of your Green Card. The above costs include sending you the US visa guide and application with further instructions, submitting your application for processing, making the necessary visa issuance and collection arrangements, answering your visa related queries, and covering all administration, legal and government (the fees for the immigrant visa application - $170, and issuance - $30 are included) costs, related to your visa. In other words we take care of everything until your visa is issued and collected by you.
Our fees are low as they have recently been discounted due to improvements in our relationship with the immigration authorities and in our services, for which we are grateful to our sponsors, who have helped us computerize more of our work and keep our presence on the Internet.We have tried to spread the costs in a step by step gradual payments like the process of issuing of your Immigrant Visa / Green Card itself, which we believe you will find very reasonable. When you register with us we will send you a full interactive immigration information pack. We will point to you exactly which sections apply to you, how we are going to execute them and ask you to fill the necessary forms and send them to us with your photos (by post as they will require your signature).
It takes 6 months ±2 weeks to obtain US immigration visa from the time we receive your completed application forms, which we will send you when you register with us and 2 years for permanent residence visa (Green Card).
If you decide to use our services, please fill your details and choose a convenient way to pay the registration deposit in the Application Form. We trust that we have explained our service quite clear, but if you still have any questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail us.
About us
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