Introduction

International students in the USA immigrate with the intention to build their career in the USA. Right after the graduation students can apply for work authorization. The temporary work visa allows you to stay and work for a specific years in the USA. Therefore, international need to apply for permanent residence or green card to ensure their residence in the USA.

The process for applying for green card and its related information is necessary to understand before proceeding further. Under this blog, we have mentioned with the required information for the international students to succeed in getting their green card.

How to apply for Green Card?

The foremost question would sure to be whether how could international students apply for their green card? Luckily the US government hasn’t banned international students to get a green card but probably made the process complex for receiving it. F1 visa is having a great competition in the race of finding jobs amongst each other because the USA Embassy works more toward the requirement of sending the F1 students back to their home in the interviews.

They focus on the question strongly about whether the student intends to stay in the states or wants to return to their home country. They suspect evidence to check in order to ensure that the student doesn’t use any illegal way to stay in the US. Under these circumstances,students should submit documents like Lease, Property papers, financial statements proving the intention to return the US.

Despite of this difficult process, the US hasn’t completely made the process hard to ensure permanent residence of the F1 students. The US intends to ensure educated residents in their country. Graduating F1 students holds a high educational degree which is a boon for international students who are intending their career in the USA.

Well, there are multiple ways of applying for a green card by international students.

#6 best ways to get a green card by international students in the USA

For the international students seeking for their career in the USA is having various ways to apply and get their green card in the USA. The following steps will surely help you out during the process:

1. Sponsorship by Employer :

F1 students holding high educational degree have a high potential in working as well as knowledge in their major as compared to a normal applicant, hence they might receive an opportunity to get find an employer that will help in the green card processing or an employment-based green card visa like EB-2 or EB-3. The students on their F1 Visa might find anemployer that will sponsor their visa and helps with green card processing.

2. A Person with Specialised knowledge and skills:

People having high education, specialized knowledge, and achieved a lot already in their career are eligible to file self-petition for them to apply for the EB-1 visa. The person having such extraordinary abilities might get a chance to receive either an EB-1 visa or a green card.

• A person having the following skills can apply for an EB -1 Visa.
• Extraordinary in their profession and its related development.
• Skilful in the fields of science, art, business, and may more.
• Work experience at a managerial position in the USA for at least 3 years in their profession.

• This visa allows you to work in the USA
• EB-1 visa is tough to receive as a person needs to fulfil various requirements to get it.
• The ratio of getting EB-1 visa is very low of becoming F1 to EB-1 visa holder because a very few people meet the requirements.

• Sponsoring of visa and payment of petition by employer after getting a job. Under this employer takes care about following the labour and visa laws.
• Self petition and payment of application fees during the application procedure is done by the candidate. Even after the whole procedure there is no guarantee whether one will receive the visa or not.
Either of the mentioned way you can apply for EB-1 visa.

3. Dual Intent Visa :

Similar to EB-1 visa there are other indirect ways to get permanent visa. Dual intent visa is an indirect way to apply for green card. Like H1B visa dual intent visa is a type of non-immigrant visa. F1 visa to dual intent visa:

• Curricular Practical Training (CPT): Students under F1 visa perusing with their educational program can get employment in relation to their field from their particular University as a Teaching assistant/ research assistant. F1 visa holders can start their CPT after 9 months of enrolling in a University although CPT program can be continued for 12 months. After the completion of the time span of 12 month if the person is succeeds in their OPT process they
• can survive in the USA under the dual intent visa. If fails in the OPT process they need to leave for their home country.
• To succeed with the OPT process check out our blog!
• Optional Practical Training (OPT): Students under F1 visa can start with their OPT program only after the completion of their educational program. If the student succeeds in finding with a US employer in their particular major they are allowed to work in the USA for 12 months of time. After the 12 months they could only stay and work in the USA if they successfully receive with a H1B sponsoring from their employer or else they need to leave for their home country. The process for the sponsorship should be processed by an employer to the USCIS (U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services) as a F1 student is not eligible to process self petition for the H1B sponsorship.

If a person succeeds in the process for the duel intent visa, then they could successfully apply for their Green card visa. The process of the indirect path for the duel intent visa is very tough and time consuming but most of the students prefer this process more than for EB-1 visa.

4. Investment in the US economy:

Investments in any form in the USA economy allow you to receive a green card visa. This route of receiving green card could be helpful only if you are wealthy and can afford it. Investments in any US enterprise which could raise employment for more than 10 permanent jobs and which ranges from more than $500k helps with EB-5 visa.

• C-5: Investments which creates employment outside the area targeted.
• T-5: Investments which creates employment within the rural or high unemployment area targeted.
• R-5: Investments which creates employment from programs like Investment Pilot not in a targeted area.
• I-5: Investments which creates employment from program like Investment Pilot within a targeted area.

5. Marrying a US Citizen:

One of the ways of getting a green card is marrying a US citizen; this will help you with the visa for spouse or IR-1 visa. This visa is only for the spouses of the US citizen.

One shouldn’t consider this as one of the ways just to get a citizenship as there is an involvement of high background check and extensive verification process done by the USCIS to ensure the relationship is valid and not made just to receive citizenship.

Under the IR-1 visa a spouse gets validity for the visa for 2 years. After the time span of 2 years if the couple got divorced the spouse needs to leave the home country and looses their visa.

6. Sponsorship by a relative:

If your relative in the USA owns a business they can sponsor for your green card visa. But more than the relation the business holding relative needs to prove your qualification towards the business operations. They need to prove towards the recruitment process that they have conducted for that position has failed to hire an eligible US citizen because of lack of skills.

Six best ways to implement while applying for companies hiring international students

List and research about the companies’ stands to be the primary step, but right after it you are left with the secondary step which is to apply for those jobs. Information of primary step can be received by anyone by a little research and time, but how to apply for the companies?

Check out our Blog for interview preparation.

We have mentioned with six best ways to implement while applying for companies hiring international students.

CLOSURE :

The ultimate vision for this information was to help you out with the available ways to apply for Green card by international students. Although there are a various ways to apply for green card but more preferable method to apply for an international student is via F1 visa to green card is under dual intent visa.

The points listed in the blog will surely help you out, also reach us for more information.