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Green Card: it is, why and how to get it
Travels / / December 19, 2019
Prepared for you a step by step getting a green card: by filling in the questionnaire before departure for permanent residence in the United States.
What is a green card?
Green card - ID United States Permanent Resident Card, which confirms the residency and the right to work in the United States.Diversity Immigrant Visa? What the lottery is that?
Diversity Immigrant Visa - a lottery program to 55,000 visas annually for immigrants of different nationalities from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States in order to increase cultural and ethnic the diversity of the population. Acceptance of applications begins in October and lasts about a month. Check them out before May next year. Abbreviated lottery called DV (Diversity Visa).How to participate in a lottery?
To participate in the lottery, enough to have a high school education, have no criminal record, socially dangerous diseases and cases of violation of immigration laws.Natives can participate in almost all countries, except the excluded. To participate in the DV-2018 were not allowed Bangladesh, Brazil, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, India, Canada, China, Colombia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, El Salvador, the Philippines, Ecuador, South Korea, Jamaica.
, You need to fill out to become a party to a questionnaire on official website Citizenship and Immigration Service, indicating biographical information. By the questionnaire required photos for all family members (spouse and children under 21), made strictly according to the rules set out in the same place, on the site.
What are the chances of winning a green card?
application numbers are changed and reduced automatically. Renumbering is an essential element of a random draw. However, as the statistics of wins, this system reduces the chances of the representatives of some countries to win. Therefore, the probability of winning ranges from 0.5 to 1% depending on the region. The winner is determined by random computer selection.Winning in the DV does not automatically obtain a green card. Then follows an interview, which is eliminated at the stage of two-thirds of lottery winners. To apply for participation in the lottery can be diversification annually.
And it does not hurt me to get a tourist visa to the United States?
Participation in the lottery is not the intention of immigration, but it can show individual visa officer desire to remain in the country. Since 2009, the tourist questionnaire is no longer the issue of participation in the lottery, and the embassy itself the DV officially hindrance to obtain a tourist visa does not consider.
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