VISA PROCESSES
Permanent Resident
Permanent resident status (green cards) can be obtained by many applications. Briefly speaking, one may become a permanent resident by:
- • Family petition
- • Employment labor certification or petition
- • Self petition as a person of extraordinary ability or national interest waiver
- • Employer-sponsored outstanding researcher or professor, or executive or manager of a multinational organization
- • Investment
- • Lottery
- • Asylum
- • Relief from deportation, called “cancellation of removal”